Channel inclusion compounds applications

As shown above, channel inclusion compounds exhibit a wide range of interesting properties and fundamental physicochemical phenomena. An enormous amount of progress was made in recent years in understanding the physical and chemical properties of these compounds." and there is no doubt that new applications of channel-type composite materials are to be expected in the future. 

One of the main interests in urea inclusion compounds is their potential application in the separation of linear and branched hydrocarbons in the petroleum industry. Because the channel diameter is only slightly larger than the van der Waals diameter of a linear hydrocarbon, only a small amount of branching can be tolerated. Whether a particular urea inclusion compound will form or not may be assessed simply by comparison of the channel size with the diameter of the guest. For example, benzene is... 

Polymer inclusion compounds, which can be prepared not only by inclusion polymerization but also by direct cocrystallization of polymers with small molecule hosts, are interesting composite materials awaiting practical applications, e.g., incorporation of conjugated polymers into channels should lead to new composite materials with potential use as molecular wires.New polymer-polymer molecular composites with interesting properties can be produced by embedding polymer inclusion compound into a carrier polymer. 

Current P3AT structure studies encompass a myriad of specialized syntheses and settings that relate to specific applications. One interesting variant, clearly with a more fundamental relevance, is a class of inclusion compounds in which molecular structural self-assembly yields channel-type structures that can be occupied by linear arrays of individual polymers or oligomers [278,279]. In this way, the interchain distances and couplings can be systematically defined and then studied. 

Cyclodextrin inclusion compounds are examples of a well-studied class of supramolecular assemblies that have found applications as functional materials. Most of the reported BCD inclusions adopt a channel packing motif which can... 

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