Virgil Percec

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the pretransitional behavior of liquid crystalline monodendrons and dendrimers is qualitatively similar to that of low molecular weight liquid crystals, exhibiting a Landau-like divergence of the relaxation time and a logarithmic divergence of optical retardation on approaching the nematic−isotropic phase transition from above.

TL;DR: This paper used X-ray reflectivity and Π-area isotherms to study Langmuir films of a series of second and third-generation monodendrons with hydrophobic C12H25 alkyl tails at the periphery and hydrophilic COOHCO2CH3 or crown ether groups in the core.

TL;DR: This approach elucidates a mechanism of selecting a homochiral relationship between dissimilar but neighboring α-amino acids through thermodynamic preference for homochirality in solution-phase and bulk supramolecular helical polymerization.

TL;DR: Structural and retrostructural analysis using a combination of differential scanning calorimetry, X-ray diffraction, molecular modeling, and simulation of XRD patterns reveals that this CTTV derivative, which is functionalized with eight chiral first-generation minidendrons, self-organizes via a column-from-spheres model.

TL;DR: In this paper, a photo-induced surface-initiated single electron transfer living radical polymerization (SET-LRP) is used for the grafting of polymer brushes from a wide range of methacrylate monomers.