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Smart materials based on self-assembled hydrogen-bonded comb-shaped supramolecules.
Gerrit ten Brinke,Olli Ikkala +1 more
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Hydrogen bonding is a key element of this approach, which combines an ease of synthesis with other important approach-specific elements, such as hierarchical self-assembly, strongly enhanced processability, swelling, and cleaving.Abstract:
Block copolymer self-assembly and supramolecular chemistry can be combined most naturally to prepare smart polymer nanomaterials. An attractive route is based on comb-shaped supramolecules, obtained by attaching side chains to (co)polymers by physical (non-covalent) inter- actions. Hydrogen bonding is a key element of our approach. It combines an ease of synthesis with other important approach-specific elements, such as hierarchical self-assembly, strongly enhanced processability, swelling, and cleaving. Functional properties discussed include anisotropic proton con- ductivity, switching proton conductivity, electronically conducting nanowires, polarized luminance, dielectric stacks (optical reflectivity), functional membranes, and nano objects. © 2004 The Japan Chemical Journal Forum and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Chem Rec 4: 219-230; 2004: Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com) DOI 10.1002/tcr.20018read more
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The Halogen Bond
Gabriella Cavallo,Pierangelo Metrangolo,Pierangelo Metrangolo,Roberto Milani,Tullio Pilati,Arri Priimagi,Giuseppe Resnati,Giancarlo Terraneo +7 more
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.
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Functional liquid-crystalline assemblies: self-organized soft materials.
TL;DR: New approaches to the functionalization of liquid crystals are described and it is shown how the design ofliquid crystals formed by supramolecular assembly and nano-segregation leads to the formation of a variety of new self-organized functional materials.
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Nanoporous materials from block copolymer precursors
TL;DR: The potential of self-assembled block copolymers for nanotechnological applications has been realized in the past decade, and many examples have now appeared in the literature as discussed by the authors.
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Isoporous Block Copolymer Membranes
TL;DR: Different ways to control the pore size will be addressed, and the potential of block copolymer blends to fabricate membranes with tailored pore sizes will be shown.
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Halogen Bonding versus Hydrogen Bonding in Driving Self‐Assembly and Performance of Light‐Responsive Supramolecular Polymers
Arri Priimagi,Gabriella Cavallo,Alessandra Forni,Mikael Gorynsztejn-Leben,Matti Kaivola,Pierangelo Metrangolo,Roberto Milani,Roberto Milani,Atsushi Shishido,Tullio Pilati,Tullio Pilati,Giuseppe Resnati,Giuseppe Resnati,Giuseppe Resnati,Giancarlo Terraneo,Giancarlo Terraneo +15 more
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.
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TL;DR: The Knitting Pattern as mentioned in this paper is a block copolymer that was discovered by Reimund Stadler and his coworkers and reflects a delicate free-energy minimization that is common to all blockcopolymer materials.
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