Development of structural complexity by liquid‐crystal self‐assembly

C Tschierske - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of the liquid‐crystalline state of matter 125 years ago, this field has
developed into a scientific area with many facets. This Review presents recent …

Direct synthesis of ordered mesoporous carbons

TY Ma, L Liu, ZY Yuan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Ordered mesoporous carbon materials have recently aroused great research interest
because of their widespread applications in many areas such as adsorbents, catalysts and …

Toward functional nanocomposites: taking the best of nanoparticles, polymers, and small molecules

J Kao, K Thorkelsson, P Bai, BJ Rancatore… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Nanocomposites, composed of organic and inorganic building blocks, can combine the
properties from the parent constituents and generate new properties to meet current and …

Small-molecule-directed nanoparticle assembly towards stimuli-responsive nanocomposites

Y Zhao, K Thorkelsson, AJ Mastroianni, T Schilling… - Nature materials, 2009 - nature.com
Precise control of the spatial organization of nanoscopic building blocks, such as
nanoparticles, over multiple length scales is a bottleneck in the 'bottom-up'generation of …

Liquid crystal engineering–new complex mesophase structures and their relations to polymer morphologies, nanoscale patterning and crystal engineering

C Tschierske - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review focuses on recent progress in the field of T-shaped ternary amphiphiles.
These molecules can self-assemble into a series of new liquid crystalline (LC) phases with …

Supramolecular aggregates as templates: ordered mesoporous polymers and carbons

Y Wan, Y Shi, D Zhao - Chemistry of Materials, 2008 - ACS Publications
Supramolecular aggregateʼs self-assembling approach has derived diverse
mesostructured inorganic solids. Recent progresses involve ordered mesoporous …

Ordered network mesostructures in block polymer materials

AJ Meuler, MA Hillmyer, FS Bates - Macromolecules, 2009 - ACS Publications
Block polymers are formed by the covalent union of two or more chemically distinct
homopolymers. These composite macromolecules self-assemble into a variety of ordered …

Synthesis of high molecular weight comb block copolymers and their assembly into ordered morphologies in the solid state

MB Runge, NB Bowden - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
This Article describes a simple two-step synthesis of comb block copolymers with molecular
weights exceeding 1 000 000 g mol-1 and their assembly into ordered morphologies in the …

Dynamic ordering and phase segregation in hydrogen-bonded polymers

S Chen, WH Binder - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Hydrogen bonds (H-bonds) constitute highly relevant structural units of
molecular self-assembly. They bridge biological and synthetic sciences, implementing …

On the specific surface area of nanoporous materials

E Detsi, E De Jong, A Zinchenko, Z Vuković, I Vuković… - Acta Materialia, 2011 - Elsevier
A proper quantification of the specific surface area of nanoporous materials is necessary for
a better understanding of the properties that are affected by the high surface-area-to-volume …