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Engineering bicontinuous cubic structures at the nanoscale—the role of chain splay

This paper demonstrates how self-assembled lipid cubic phases can be engineered at the nanoscale level. This work is crucial for understanding and predicting lyotropic phase behaviour to tune the type and dimensions of lipid nanostructures for iotechnological applications, e.g. membrane protein crystallization. This work has initiated substantial interest and has led to new collaborations with Prof. Rappolt (University of Leeds) and Prof. Yaghmur (University of Copenhagen) with two manuscripts currently under preparation on the data generated at Elettra (synchrotron source), Trieste, Italy. Further related outputs include an ‘Invited talk’ at the International Conference at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.