Free self-assembled systems

The covalently linked or self-assembled systems constructed from free-base porphyrins or metalloposphyrins and various quenchers and related studies of excited-state energy-transfer and electron-transfer processes in such systems are a widely studied topic of contemporary supramolecular chemistry. There are two major reasons for the exceptional interest in the topic a challenge to synthesize artificial systems for harvesting solar energy of... 

Barbero and Evangelista [101] proposed a continuum model to describe the orientational states of a self-assembled system in which the membrane is formed by rodlike molecules in contact with an isotropic solid substrate. The intermolecular and the molecule-substrate interactions are modeled by an LJ-like potential. The total free energy was evaluated as follows ... 

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Random interface models for ternary systems share the feature with the Widom model and the one-order-parameter Ginzburg-Landau theory (19) that the density of amphiphiles is not allowed to fluctuate independently, but is entirely determined by the distribution of oil and water. However, in contrast to the Ginzburg-Landau approach, they concentrate on the amphiphilic sheets. Self-assembly of amphiphiles into monolayers of given optimal density is premised, and the free energy of the system is reduced to effective free energies of its internal interfaces. In the same spirit, random interface models for binary systems postulate self-assembly into bilayers and intro-... 

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