Preface vii Contributors xi 1. Physics of Self-Assembly of Lyotropic Liquid Crystals 1 Raffaele Mezzenga 2. Rheological Theory and Simulation of Surfactant Nematic Liquid Crystals 21 Alejandro D. Rey and E. E. Herrera-Valencia 3. Dividing Planes of Hexagonal HII Mesophase 79 Vesselin Kolev, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti 4. Nanocharacterization of Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Systems 97 Patrick G. Hartley and Hsin-Hui Shen 5. Self-Assembly in Lipidic Particles 129 Anan Yaghmur and Otto Glatter 6. Hierarchically Organized Systems Based on Liquid Crystalline Phases 157 Chandrashekhar V. Kulkarni and Otto Glatter 7. Synthesis and Alignment of Nanostructured Materials Using Liquid Crystals 193 Idit Amar-Yuli, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti 8. Recent Developments in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals as Drug Delivery Vehicles 219 Dima Libster, Abraham Aserin, and Nissim Garti 9. Stimuli-Responsive Lipid-Based Self-Assembled Systems 257 Ben J. Boyd and Wye-Khay Fong 10. Nonlamellar Lipid Liquid Crystalline Structures at Interfaces 289 Debby P. Chang and Tommy Nylander 11. Multicompartment Lipid Nanocarriers for Targeting of Cells Expressing Brain Receptors 319 Claire Geral, Angelina Angelova, Borislav Angelov, Valerie Nicolas, and Sylviane Lesieur Index 357