Roberto Milani

TL;DR: The specific advantages brought up by a design based on the use of the halogen bond will be demonstrated in quite different fields spanning from material sciences to biomolecular recognition and drug design.

TL;DR: This tutorial review introduces the basic concepts of fluorous chemistry and illustrates its main biomolecular applications and to the most recent applications of (19)F-Magnetic Resonance Imaging (F-MRI).

TL;DR: In this article, the role of halogen bonding in controlling the performance of light-responsive supramolecular polymers is highlighted, and it is shown that light-induced surface patterning, a unique phenomenon occurring in azobenzene-containing polymers, is more effi cient in halogen-bonded polymer-azobenzenesene complexes than in the analogous hydrogen-bunded complexes.

TL;DR: It is shown that single atom replacement of hydrogen with iodine, a halogen-bond donor, in the human calcitonin-derived amyloidogenic fragment DFNKF results in a super-gelator peptide, which forms a strong and shape-persistent hydrogel at 30-fold lower concentration than the wild-type pentapeptide.

TL;DR: Polymeric self-assemblies where nanoscale organization guides the macroscopic alignment up to millimetre scale are shown where halogen bonding mesogenic 1-iodoperfluoroalkanes to a star-shaped ethyleneglycol-based polymer, having chloride end-groups is shown.