The entropy-controlled strategy in self-assembling systems

X Zhang, X Dai, L Gao, D Xu, H Wan, Y Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

Supramolecular polymers in aqueous media

E Krieg, MMC Bastings, P Besenius… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This review discusses one-dimensional supramolecular polymers that form in aqueous
media. First, naturally occurring supramolecular polymers are described, in particular …

Supramolecular polymers form tactoids through liquid–liquid phase separation

H Fu, J Huang, JJB van der Tol, L Su, Y Wang, S Dey… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Liquid–liquid phase separation (LLPS) of biopolymers has recently been shown to play a
central role in the formation of membraneless organelles with a multitude of biological …

Super-resolution microscopy as a powerful tool to study complex synthetic materials

S Pujals, N Feiner-Gracia, P Delcanale, I Voets… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
Understanding the relations between the formation, structure, dynamics and functionality of
complex synthetic materials is one of the great challenges in chemistry and nanotechnology …

Multicolor photoluminescence including white-light emission by a single host–guest complex

QW Zhang, D Li, X Li, PB White… - Journal of the …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Achieving multicolor photoluminescence, especially white-light emission, under mild
conditions based on a single fluorescent compound is a great challenge. Herein, we report a …

Review of force fields and intermolecular potentials used in atomistic computational materials research

JA Harrison, JD Schall, S Maskey, PT Mikulski… - Applied Physics …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Molecular simulation is a powerful computational tool for a broad range of applications
including the examination of materials properties and accelerating drug discovery. At the …

In situ real-time imaging of self-sorted supramolecular nanofibres

S Onogi, H Shigemitsu, T Yoshii, T Tanida, M Ikeda… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Self-sorted supramolecular nanofibres—a multicomponent system that consists of several
types of fibre, each composed of distinct building units—play a crucial role in complex, well …

Pathway-controlled aqueous supramolecular polymerization via solvent-dependent chain conformation effects

L Borsdorf, L Herkert, N Bäumer… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Solute–solvent interactions play a critical role in multiple fields, including biology, materials
science, and (physical) organic, polymer, and supramolecular chemistry. Within the growing …

Hydrogels that listen to cells: a review of cell-responsive strategies in biomaterial design for tissue regeneration

HW Ooi, S Hafeez, CA Van Blitterswijk, L Moroni… - Materials …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The past decade has seen a decided move from static and passive biomaterials to
biodegradable, dynamic, and stimuli responsive materials in the laboratory and the clinic …

Molecular simulations of self-assembling bio-inspired supramolecular systems and their connection to experiments

PWJM Frederix, I Patmanidis, SJ Marrink - Chemical Society Reviews, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
In bionanotechnology, the field of creating functional materials consisting of bio-inspired
molecules, the function and shape of a nanostructure only appear through the assembly of …