Localization effect, dendrimers

G2, to G3, and to G4, the effective enhancement was 10%, 36%, and 35% larger than the value estimated by the simple addition of monomeric values. The enhancement included the local field effect due to the screening electric field generated by neighboring molecules. Assuming the chromophore-solvent effect on the second-order susceptibility is independent of the number of chro-mophore units in the dendrimers, p enhancement can be attributed to the inter-molecular dipole-dipole interaction of the chromophore units. Hence, such an intermolecular coupling for the p enhancement should be more effective with the dendrimers composed of the NLO chromophore, whose dipole moment and the charge transfer are unidirectional parallel to the molecular axis. 

While the linear absorption and nonlinear optical properties of certain dendrimer nanocomposites have evolved substantially and show strong potential for future applications, the physical processes governing the emission properties in these systems is a subject of recent high interest. It is still not completely understood how emission in metal nanocomposites originates and how this relates to their (CW) optical spectra. As stated above, the emission properties in bulk metals are very weak. However, there are some processes associated with a small particle size (such as local field enhancement [108], surface effects [29], quantum confinement [109]) which could lead in general to the enhancement of the fluorescence efficiency as compared to bulk metal and make the fluorescence signal well detectable [110, 111]. 

The accessible peripheral catalytic groups enable reaction rates that are comparable to those of homogeneous systems, but the periphery-functionalized dendrimers contain multiple reaction sites and may have extremely high local catalyst concentrations, which can lead to cooperative effects in reactions that proceed via a... 

In contrast to polymers, the structural precision and hence more uniform properties of dendrimers predestine them primarily for applications in the biomedical sector. A further reason for interest in these compounds is that effects such as luminescence can be enhanced by straightforward substitution and high local concentrations of certain structural elements and functionalities can be obtained. 

The majority of studies into the catalytic behaviour of dendrimers with chiral catalytic centres at the periphery of the dendritic support have concerned non-phosphine-based catalysts. As has become apparent in these studies, the effect of the dendrimer fixation on the catalytic performance generally depends on the individual system. Factors such as the high local density of catalytic sites, the interaction of functional groups in the dendrimer backbone with the catalysts and the structural rigidity or flexibility of the dendrimers seem to play a role in many cases. 

A number of studies have examined the use of a dendrimer drug carrier to treat a variety of tumors. One approach has been based on the exploitation of the enhanced permeability and retention effect (EPR effect) to localize drug conjugates in tumor tissue. " A second approach has involved the conjugation of a... 

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