Building blocks for self-assembly

Kovtyukhova, N. I. Mallouk, T. E. Nanowires as building blocks for self-assembling logic and memory circuits. Chem.-Eur. J. 8, 4354-4363 (2002). 

The spontaneous formation of structures by self-assembly relies on a delicate balance of relatively weak intermolecular forces such as the hydrophobic force, electrostatic and van der Waals interactions, and hydrogen bonding. Building blocks for self-assembly can range from small atoms to much larger macroscale objects. A wide variety of two- and three-dimensional... 

C. Wang, Z. Wang, X. Zhang, Amphiphilic building blocks for self-assembly from amphiphiles to supra-amphiphiles, Acc. Chem. Res. 45 (4) (2012) 608-618. 

Table 14.1 Examples of Factors Which Can Form the Fundamental Building Blocks for Self-Assembly (from Lee, 2012)...

Trabolsi, A., M. Elhabiti, A.-M. Albrecht Gary, M. Koepf, D. Paul, J.A. Wytko, and J. Weiss (2005). Building blocks for self-assembled porphyrinic photonic wires. Org. Lett. 7(7), 1279-1282. 

Giani E, Spamacci K, Laus M, Palamone G, Kapeliouchko V, Arcella V (2003) PTFE-poly-styrene core-shell nanospheres and nanocomposites. Macromolecules 36(12) 4360-4367 17. Antonioli D, Deregibus S, Panzarasa G, Spamacci K, Laus M, Berti L, Frezza L, Gambini M, Boarino L, Enrico E, Comoretto D (2012) PTFE-PMMA core-shell colloidal particles as building blocks for self-assembled opals synthesis, properties and optical response. Polym Int61(8) 1294... 

In recent years, several classes of biomolecules (peptides, lipids, nucleic acids, and sugars) have been studied as building blocks for self-assembled nanostructures, yielding complex therapeutic agents and nanoscale vectors (Kuzuya and Komiyama 2010 Namiki et al. 2011 Matson and Stupp 2012 Reichardt et al. 2013). 

More recently, ZnS-coated PS nanocomposite colloids were synthesized by the chemical bath deposition technique of thioacetamide in the presence of PS seed particles and metal salt [197], It allowed deposition of high refractive index ZnS shells of controlled thickness onto sulfate-modified and plain PS cores of size of about 200-500 nm. In order to prevent aggregations of PS particles, PVP was added during the reaction. The effective refractive index of the ZnS shell-PS core (PS/ZnS) composite particles varied between 1.73 and 1.98 at wavelengths above the optical absorption edge of ZnS. The porosity of the shells was between 12 and 19%, and the core-shell colloids served as building blocks for self-assembly at the submicron length scale [197]. 

Functionalized Calixpyrroles Building Blocks for Self-Assembly... 

Fig. 9 A Molecular structures of poly(ethylene glycol)-conjugated /S-sheet peptides, LKL16-P5G and its control peptide with scrambled thrombin-active sequence (SGRPVL), which were used as building blocks for self-assembly. B Time dependences of A[0]2is for LKL16-P5G (a and b) and control peptide (c and d) with (solid lines a and c) and without the addition of thrombin (dashed lines b and d) under above condition. The arrow indicates the time at which thrombin was added in the peptide-solution, [peptide] = 40 xM. (Adapted from [45])...

Amphiphilic CDs as building blocks for self-assembled carrier systems... 

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