Hierarchical self-organization

A General Model for the Hierarchical Self-Organization of Oligopeptide-Polymer Conjugates 89... 

The hierarchical self-organization exhibited routinely by Nature and subsequently mimicked by chemists in the laboratory has opened up the field to a wide variety of potential applications and new methodology in the field of chemistry to which these concepts can be applied. Synthetic polymers can also exhibit several types and hierarchical levels of self-assembly, including (1) main-chain extension based on molecular self-assembly resulting in the formation of high molecular... 

Further developments involve sequential, hierarchical self-organization on an increasing scale, with emergence of novel features/properties at each level [3, 7], self-organization in space as well as in time [93] and passage beyond reversibility, towards evolutive chemistry involving self-organization and constitutional dynamics in non-equilibrium systems. 

Figure 32. (a) Schematic representation of hierarchical self-organization of 30 into ordered microporous structure, (b) Fluorescence photomicrograph of solution-cast micellar film of 30 with m = 10 and n = 300. (Reprinted with permission from ref 109. Copyright 1999 American Association for the Advancement of Science). 

Escale, P., Rubatat, L., Derail, C., Save, M., Billon, L. pH sensitive hierarchically self-organized bioinspired films. Macromol. Rapid Commun 32, 1072-1076 (2011)... 

Nurmawati, M.H., Ajikumar, P.K., Renu, R., Valiyaveettil, S. Hierarchical self-organization of nanomaterials into two-dimensional arrays using functional polymer scaffold. Adv. Fund Mater. 18, 3213-3218 (2008)... 

Katsampas I, Tsitsilianis C (2005) Hierarchical self-organization of ABC terpolymer constituted of a long polyelectrolyte end-capped by different hydrophobic blocks. Macromolecules 38 1307-1314... 

When chiral substituents were introduced in the phenylenevinylene-based gelator 14c, a hierarchical self-organization into coiled-coil aggregates of nanometer dimensions was achieved [48]. AFM analysis of 14c gel from do-... 

Wurthner, E, Thalacker, C., Sautter, A. et al. (2000) Hierarchical self-organization of perylene bisimide-melamine assemblies to fluorescent mesoscopic superstructures. Chemistry - A European Journal, 6,3871—3886. 

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