chapter 1 Bicontinuous Cubic Liquid Crystalline Materials: A Historical Perspective and Modern Assessment -- chapter 2 Intermediate Phases -- chapter 3 Cubic Phases and Human Skin: Theory and Practice -- chapter 4 The Relationship between Bicontinuous Inverted Cubic Phases and Membrane Fusion -- chapter 5 Aspects of the Differential Geometry and Topology of Bicontinuous Liquid-Crystalline Phases -- chapter 6 Novel L3 Phases and Their Macroscopic Properties -- chapter 7 Bicontinuous Cubic Phases of Lipids with Entrapped Proteins: Structural Features and Bioanalytical Applications -- chapter 8 NMR Characterization of Cubic and Sponge Phases -- chapter 9 Synthesis of Controlled-Porosity Ceramics Using Bicontinuous Liquid Crystals -- chapter 10 Controlled Release from Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Particles (Cubosomes) -- chapter 11 Membrane Protein Crystallization in Lipidic Bicontinuous Liquid Crystals -- chapter 12 Application of Monoglyceride-Based Liquid Crystals as Extended-Release Drug Delivery Systems -- chapter 13 Cubic Liquid-Crystalline Particles as Protein and Insoluble Drug Delivery Systems -- chapter 14 Bicontinuous Liquid Crystalline Mesophases—Solubilization Reactivity and Interfacial Reactions -- chapter 15 Applications of Lipidic Cubic Phases in Structural Biology -- chapter 16 The Controlled Release of Drugs from Cubic Phases of Glyceryl Monooleate.