Srikanth, Raju, and Ahmet’s work has appeared as a supplementary cover of Langmuir!
Inverted bilayers of amphiphiles form spontaneously at the air/water interface in the presence of trivalent lutetium ions. The same amphiphiles form a simple monolayer in the presence of trivalent neodymium ions. Understanding this process will help develop better methods for rare earth separations.
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.2c00208
