Strategies to create hierarchical self-assembled structures via cooperative non-covalent interactions

C Rest, R Kandanelli, G Fernández - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Cooperative phenomena are common processes involved in the hierarchical self-assembly
of multiple systems in nature, such as the tobacco mosaic virus and a cell's cytoskeleton …

Supramolecular polymerization

TFA De Greef, MMJ Smulders, M Wolffs… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background In his historic review titled “Polymerization” in Chemical Reviews of 1931,
Wallace H. Carothers described his brilliant ideas about the rapidly develo** field of …

Probing the solvent-assisted nucleation pathway in chemical self-assembly

P Jonkheijm, P van der Schoot, APHJ Schenning… - Science, 2006 - science.org
Hierarchical self-assembly offers a powerful strategy for producing molecular
nanostructures. Although widely used, the mechanistic details of self-assembly processes …

Hydrogen-bonded supramolecular π-functional materials

D González-Rodríguez, APHJ Schenning - Chemistry of Materials, 2011 - ACS Publications
Hydrogen-bonded Supramolecular π-Functional Materials | Chemistry of Materials Recently
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Self-assembly at the liquid/solid interface: STM reveals

S De Feyter, FC De Schryver - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2005 - ACS Publications
The liquid/solid interface provides an ideal environment to investigate self-assembly
phenomena, and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) is the preferred methodology to …

Towards Supramolecular Engineering of Functional Nanomaterials: Pre‐Programming Multi‐Component 2D Self‐Assembly at Solid‐Liquid Interfaces

A Ciesielski, CA Palma, M Bonini… - Advanced …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular engineering comprises the design, synthesis and self-assembly of well-
defined molecular modules into tailormade architectures. The incorporation of functional …

Two-dimensional surface chirality control by solvent-induced helicity inversion of a helical polyacetylene on graphite

S Sakurai, K Okoshi, J Kumaki… - Journal of the American …, 2006 - ACS Publications
We report the direct evidence for the macromolecular helicity inversion of a helical poly
(phenylacetylene) bearing l-or d-alanine pendants with a long alkyl chain in different …

Two-dimensional chirality at liquid–solid interfaces

JAAW Elemans, I De Cat, H Xu… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review highlights the formation of chiral molecular patterns at the liquid–solid
interface, revealed at the submolecular level with scanning tunnelling microscopy. It is …

Molecular packing and symmetry of two-dimensional crystals

KE Plass, AL Grzesiak, AJ Matzger - Accounts of chemical …, 2007 - ACS Publications
Periodic arrangements on surfaces resulting from monolayer formation are critical in
determining the electronic structure of thin films, the adhesion of surface coatings, the …

The art of SPM: Scanning probe microscopy in materials science

J Loos - Advanced Materials, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In this Progress Report, outstanding scientific applications of scanning probe
microscopy (SPM) in the field of materials science and the latest technique developments …