Fluoropolymers have unique physicochemical properties such as hydrophobicity and
lipophobicity, good chemical stability and bio-inertness, low surface energy and phase …

Today where everybody is using a large variety of electronic devices such as notebook and
tablet computers, smart phones, digital cameras, MP3 players, flat panel TVs, as well as …

1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

The mechanisms of most organic reactions are considered to proceed by two-electron
transfer pathways, even though both biology and radical chemistry rely extensively on one …

This critical review begins with a brief, but essential, introduction to the special nature of
liquid crystal materials, their peculiar properties, and their commercial applications, followed …

This tutorial review summarizes strategies elaborated for the discovery and prediction of
programmed primary structures derived from quasi-equivalent constitutional isomeric …

The controlled fabrication of nanometer-scale objects is without doubt one of the central
issues in current science and technology. However, existing fabrication techniques suffer …

Fundamentally important as models for the study of energy and charge migration in self-
organized systems, discotic liquid crystals find functional application as one-dimensional …

Helical architectures including artwork and monuments, such us the Trajan's column from
Rome, were constructed as early as in the year 113 while the assemblies and the self …

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 …