Figure 1.

(a) Chemical structures of molecules used in this work. (b) Summary of the geometrical characteristics of monomeric DGI and the four co-surfactants used in this study. Headgroup areas in water were calculated or taken from the literature.¹⁶⁻¹⁸ (c) Illustration of the 1D photonic lamellar structure of PDGI/PAAm hydrogels synthesized by one-pot polymerization of self-assembled monomeric DGI bilayers in PAAm hydrogel precursor solutions. Small amounts of co-surfactants were added to the solutions.