Guidelines for superlattice engineering with giant molecules: The pivotal role of mesoatoms

XY Yan, Y Liu, XY Liu, H Lei, XH Li, Y Wang, W Li… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Soft materials with nanostructures, such as Frank-Kasper (FK) and related spherical phases,
have garnered significant interest in recent years. However, there is still a lack of rational …

Screening Libraries to Discover Molecular Design Principles for the Targeted Delivery of mRNA with One-Component Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers …

J Lu, EN Atochina-Vasserman, DS Maurya, MI Shalihin… - Pharmaceutics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Viral and synthetic vectors to deliver nucleic acids were key to the rapid development of
extraordinarily efficient COVID-19 vaccines. The four-component lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) …

[HTML][HTML] Discotic liquid crystals 45 years later. Dendronized discs and crowns increase liquid crystal complexity to columnar from spheres, cubic Frank-Kasper, liquid …

V Percec, D Sahoo - Giant, 2022 - Elsevier
In 1977 Chandrasekhar laboratory reported the first examples of a new class of thermotropic
liquid crystals self-organized from planar disc-like molecules substituted with alkyl groups. X …

Unconventional 2D periodic nanopatterns based on block molecules

B Hou, WB Zhang, Y Shao - Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023 - Springer
This review summarizes the self-assembly of block molecules forming unconventional two-
dimensional (2D) periodic nanopatterns. Especially, we emphasize the structural evolution …

Unwinding Spherical Helices Increases Entropy and Stability of Frank–Kasper and Body-Centered-Cubic Periodic Arrays To Facilitate Discrimination between Self …

D Sahoo, M Peterca, V Percec - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Spherical supramolecular dendrimers including helical, self-organize soft Frank–Kasper,
other cubic such as body-centered cubic, and quasicrystal periodic and quasiperiodic …

Stimuli-responsive principles of supramolecular organizations emerging from self-assembling and self-organizable dendrons, dendrimers, and dendronized polymers

V Percec, D Sahoo, J Adamson - Polymers, 2023 - mdpi.com
All activities of our daily life, of the nature surrounding us and of the entire society and its
complex economic and political systems are affected by stimuli. Therefore, understanding …

Unimolecular Nanoparticles toward More Precise Regulations of Self‐Assembled Superlattices in Soft Matter

H Lei, Y Liu, T Liu, QY Guo, XY Yan… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The hierarchical self‐assembly process opens up great potential for the construction of
nanostructural superlattices. Precise regulation of self‐assembled superlattices, however …

Co-assembly of liposomes, Dendrimersomes, and Polymersomes with amphiphilic Janus dendrimers conjugated to Mono-and Tris-Nitrilotriacetic Acid (NTA, TrisNTA) …

Q **ao, N Rivera-Martinez, CJ Raab, JG Bermudez… - Giant, 2022 - Elsevier
Metal-chelating ligands such as nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA) bind to polyhistidine-tagged (His-
tagged) proteins. Lipids conjugated to NTA are widely used to decorate the surface of …