Polymer self-assembly

Collier JH, Messersmith PB (2004) Self-assembling polymer-peptide conjugates nanostructural tailoring. Adv Mater 16 907-910... 

Chan, VZH Hoffman, J Lee, VY latrou, H Avgeropoulos, A Hadjichristidis, N Miller, RD Thomas, EL, Ordered Bicontinuous Nanoporous and Nanorelief Ceramic Pihns from Self-Assembling Polymer Precursors, Science 286, 1716, 1999. 

Figure 86 The coordination-driven carborane-containing self-assembled polymers,...

H. Kong, R Luo, C. Gao, and D. Yan, Polyelectrolyte-functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotubes preparation, characterization and layer-by-layer self-assembly. Polymer 46, 2472—2485 (2005). 

Calvert, P. Yoshioka, Y. Jabbour, G. 2002. Inkjet printing of self-assembling polymers. Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society 224 U398-U398. 

Diez I, Hahn H, Ikkala O, Bomer HG, Ras RHA (2010) Controlled growth of silver nanoparticle arrays guided by a self-assembled polymer-peptide conjugate. Soft Matter 6 3160-3162... 

Figure 14.4 Primary sequence and molecular model of a coiled coil dimer and self-assembled polymer with the hydrophobic interface highhghted. The final bundle fiber structure is shown at the bottom. Reprinted from Wagner et al. (2005). Copyright 2005 National Academy of Sciences.

Nishiyama, N., Yokoyama, M., Aoyagi, T., Okano, T., Sakurai, Y. and Kataoka, K. (1999) Preparation and characterization of self-assembled polymer-metal complex micelle from cis-dichlorodiammineplatinum(II) and poly(ethylene glycol)-poly(, -aspartic acid) block copolymer in an aqueous medium. Langmuir, 15, 377-383. 

There is a range of biological self-assembled polymer fibres such as amyloids, actins and fibrin that have important positive and negative roles in biochemistry. These biopolymers act as an inspiration for supramolecular design and share many features in common with their abiotic analogues. We will mention them briefly here in the context of supramolecular polymers. 

Johnstone, K.D., Bampos, N., Sanders, J.K.M. and Gunter, M.J. (2003) A self-assembling polymer-bound rotaxane under thermodynamic control, Chem. Commun., 1396-1397. 

Fischer, P. Koetse, M. Laschewsky, A. Wischerhoff, E. Jullien, L. Persoons, A and Verbiest, T. (2000) Orientation of Nonlinear Optical Active Dyes in Electrostatically Self-Assembled Polymer Films Containing Cyclodextrins, Macromolecules 33, 9471-9473. 

FIGURE 4. Zn(II) terpyridine self-assembled polymer prepared by Wiirthner.11... 

If X = exp [-/3g] 1, we have long self-assembled polymers that obey... 

Nucleated supramolecular polymerization, on the other hand, is a much more sensitive function of the external conditions. Indeed, a sharp polymerization point can be identified below which almost no material is in the polymerizated state and above which the self-assembled polymers exhibit a strong variation of their mean size with varying concentration, temperature, and so on. Nucleated equilibrium polymerization requires the existence of... 

Capello J, Crissman JW, Crissman M, Ferrari FA, Textor G, Wallis O, Whitledge JR, Zhou X, Burman D, Aukerman L, Stedronsky ER (1998) In-situ self-assembling polymer gel systems for administration, delivery, and release of drugs. J Control Release 53 105-117... 

With conventional chips, it is well known that thiolated-DNA can be easily immobilized on gold but does not interact by ordered self-assembly, due to nonspecific interactions between the DNA bases and the gold. Different alkanethiols have been used to improve the hybridization efficiency and the selectivity, followed by immobilization of thiolated-DNA on the substrate [59,61,69]. Hence, this method requires two steps and needs consideration concerning the experimental conditions. However, DNA-conjugated polymer does not only prevent desorption of probe DNA from the surface, because the DNA is covalently bound to the self-assembly polymer, but it also... 

J.H.K.K. Hirschuberg, L. Brunsveld, A. Ramzi, J.A.J.M. Vekemans, R.P. Sijbesma, E.W. Meijer, Helical Self-Assembled Polymers from Cooperative Stacking of Hydrogen-Bonded Pairs , Nature, 407, 167 (2000)... 

The boundary between cases I-II has been explored by Flexer et al. [69] with LbL self-assembled GOx multilayers and poly(bipyridine-pyridine) redox polymer (PAH-Os). Figure 2.29 shows the catalytic response in excess glucose as a function of the number of self-assembled polymer-enzyme bilayers. Forthe first bilayers (thin films)... 

Gifford E, Wang Z, Ramachandran S, Heflin JR (2007) Sensitivity control of optical fiber biosensors utilizing turnaround point long period gratings with self-assembled polymer coatings. Proc SPIE 6659 665900... 

Besides the self-assembled polymer vesicles there are other types of membranes or capsules, which will not be mentioned here. Commercial membranes based on cellulose include dialysis bags or filter paper, to mention just the most common and widely spread examples [14], Capsules made with sophistication through layer-by-layer assembly on sacrificial templates [15,16] or using viruses as building blocks [17,18] have recently been reviewed elsewhere. 

Koetz, J., Beitz, T. and Tiersch, B. (1999) Self assembled polymer-surfactant systems. /. Disp. Set. Technol, 20, 139-163. 

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