Self macromolecules

Lowack K and Helm C A 1998 Molecular mechanisms controlling the self-assembly process of polyelectrolyte multilayers Macromolecules 31 823-33... 

Lenk T J, Hallmark V M, Rabolt J F, Haussling L and Ringsdorf H 1993 Formation and characterization of self-assembled films of sulphur-derivatized poly(methyl methacrylates) on gold Macromolecules 26 1230-7... 

Koutsos V, van der Vegte E W, Grim PCM and Hadziioannou G Isolated polymer chains via mixed self-assembled monolayers morphology and friction studied by scanning force microscopy Macromolecules 116-23... 

The advantage of the LB technique is that it allows systematic studies of 2-D organization, both before and after transfer from the air—water interface onto a soHd substrate. However, the coupling of 3-D self-organization of macromolecules in solution with organization at a soHd surface may best be achieved using the self-assembly technique. 

G. D. J. Phillies. Universal scaling equation for self-diffusion by macromolecules in solution. Macromolecules 79 2367-2376, 1986 Dynamics of polymers... 

Kim and Webster [57] were the first to show that trifunctional benzene-based monomers can also be used to synthesize poly(phenylene)s, in this case hyperbranched structures 31 based on 1,3,5-trisubstituled benzene cores. They self-condensed l,3-dibromophenyl-5-boronic acid leading to the formation of soluble, hyperbranched PPP-type macromolecule 31. 

Nagapudi K., Brinkman W.T., Leisen, J., Thomas B.S., Wright E.R., HaUer C., Wu X., Apkarian R.P., ConticeUo V.P., and Chaikof EU. Protein-based thermoplastic elastomers. Macromolecules, 38, 345, 2005. Petka W.A., Hardin J.L., McGrath K.P., Wirtz D., and TirreU, D.A. Reversible hydrogels from self-assembUng artificial proteins. Science, 281, 389, 1998. 

Pochan D.J., Pakstis L., Ozbas B., Nowak A.P., and Deming T.J. SANS and cryo-TEM study of self-assembled diblock copolypeptide hydrogels with rich nano through microscale morphology. Macromolecules, 35, 5358, 2002. 

Pralle M.U., Whitaker C.M., Braun P.V., and Stupp S.I. Molecular variables in the self-assembly of supramolecular nanostructure. Macromolecules, 33, 3550, 2000. 

The first phenomenon observed is the improved resistance of these materials to combustion, in a way that they may be classified as intrinsically self-extinguishing substrates. For instance, the LOI value for PTFEP is reported to be 48 [452], which is much higher than reported for classical organic plastics [283], while phosphazene fluoroelastomers have been considered as fire-retardant materials since the very beginning of their preparation and utilization [562]. Similarly to aryloxy- and arylamino- substituted POPs [389,390] (vide infra),it may be expected that the flame-resistance properties of phosphazene fluoroelastomers could be successively exported to stabihze organic macromolecules when blended with these materials. 

On this basis, five classes of different polyphosphazenes are considered as outstanding examples of this type of macromolecules, in which skeletal and substituent features overlap to the highest extent. The reported materials are elastomers, flame retardants and self-extinguishing macromolecules, polymeric ionic conductors, biomaterials, and photosensitive polymeric compounds all of them based on the polyphosphazene structure. 

Liu B, Lewis AK, Shen W (2009) Physical hydrogels photo-cross-linked from self- assembled macromers for potential use in tissue engineering. Biomacromolecules 10 3182-3187 Vandermeulen GWM, Tziatzios C, Duncan R et al (2005) Peg-based hybrid block copolymers containing alpha-helical coiled coil peptide sequences control of self- assembly and preliminary biological evaluation. Macromolecules 38 761-769... 

Ozbas B, Kretsinger J, Rajagopal K et al (2004) Salt-triggered peptide folding and consequent self-assembly into hydrogels with tunable modulus. Macromolecules 37 7331-7337... 

Yucel T, Micklitsch CM, Schneider JP et al (2008) Direct observation of early-time hydrogelation in beta-hairpin peptide self-assembly. Macromolecules 41 5763-5772... 

Vandermeulen GWM, Tziatzios C, Klok HA (2003) Reversible self-organization of poly (ethylene glycol)-based hybrid block copolymers mediated by a de novo four- stranded alpha-helical coiled coil motif Macromolecules 36 4107 114... 

In some contrast to the progress made in establishing working methodologies for the design and fabrication of nanostrnctures made of self-assembled biological macromolecules, the realization and feasibility demonstrations of claimed potential applications of these systems are still in their infancy. 

The potential application of self-assembled scaffolds offering exact positioning of biological macromolecules within micron- to milimeter-size DNA- or protein-made crystals for structural analysis by x-ray crystallography was also suggested [5,50]. 

Hadden, DA, Master of Science Thesis, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1999. Hadden, D Rill, RL McFadden, L Locke, BR, Oligonucleotide and Water Self-Diffusion in Pluronic Triblock Copolymer Gels and Solutions by Pulsed Field Gradient Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Macromolecules 33, 4235, 2000. 

Holz, M Lucas, O Muller, C, NMR in the Presence of an Electric Current, Simultaneous Measurements of Ionic Mobilities, Transference Numbers, and Self-Diffusion Coefficients Using an NMR Pulsed-Gradient Experiment, Journal of Magnetic Resonance 58, 294, 1984. Hooper, HH Baker, JP Blanch, HW Prausnitz, JM, Swelling Equilibria for Positively Ionized Polyacrylamide Hydrogels, Macromolecules 23, 1096, 1990. 

Malmsten, M Lindman, B, Self-Assembly in Aqueous Block Copolymer Solutions, Macromolecules 25, 5440, 1992. 

Phillies, GDJ, Universal Scaling Equation for Self-Diffusion by Macromolecules in Solution, Macromolecules 19, 2367, 1986. 

Phillies, GDJ, Quantitative Prediction of alpha in the Scaling Law for Self-Diffusion, Macromolecules 21, 3101, 1988. 

All biological organisms have the ability to reproduce themselves. The instructions for self-replication are stored and transmitted by macromolecules called nucleic acids. There are two types of nucleic acids, one that stores genetic information and one that transmits the information. Genetic information is stored in molecules of deoxyribonucleic... 

A supramolecular assembly of macromolecules bearing antenna dendron has been reported. Pyrazole-anchored PBE dendrons were synthesized to examine the coordination behavior to transition-metal cations (Cu, Au, Ag) [31]. Self-assembled metallacycles were found. The Cu-metallacycle further formed luminescent fibers about 1 pm in diameter. The luminescence (605 nm) occurred by the excitation of the dendron (280 nm) and the excitation spectrum was coincident with the absorption spectrum of the dendron, suggesting the antenna effect. Interestingly, the luminescence of the Cu-metallacycle fiber disappeared when the fiber was dissociated into the individual metallacycles in C2H2. 

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