Functionalizing nanoparticles with biological molecules: developing chemistries that facilitate nanotechnology

KE Sapsford, WR Algar, L Berti, KB Gemmill… - Chemical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Bionanotechnology has now become firmly established in its own right as one of the
principle and focused subdisciplines within nanotechnology.(1-10) Bionanotechnology can …

One hundred years of helicene chemistry. Part 3: applications and properties of carbohelicenes

M Gingras - Chemical Society Reviews, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbohelicenes are a class of fascinating chiral helical molecules which have a rich history
in chemistry. Over a period of almost 100 years, chemists have developed many methods to …

Dendrimers designed for functions: from physical, photophysical, and supramolecular properties to applications in sensing, catalysis, molecular electronics, photonics …

D Astruc, E Boisselier, C Ornelas - Chemical reviews, 2010 - ACS Publications
Dendrimers Designed for Functions: From Physical, Photophysical, and Supramolecular
Properties to Applications in Sensing, Catalysis, Molecular Electronics, Photonics, and …

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 developing field of …

Dendron-mediated self-assembly, disassembly, and self-organization of complex systems

BM Rosen, CJ Wilson, DA Wilson, M Peterca… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
1.1 Background Dendrimers and dendrons are architectural motifs synthesized by either
divergent or convergent iterative methods, and therefore, they provide monodisperse …

How to distinguish isodesmic from cooperative supramolecular polymerisation

MMJ Smulders, MML Nieuwenhuizen… - … A European Journal, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
To study the supramolecular polymerisation mechanisms of a self‐assembling system,
concentration‐and temperature‐dependent measurements can both be used to probe the …

From structure to function via complex supramolecular dendrimer systems

HJ Sun, S Zhang, V Percec - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review summarizes strategies elaborated for the discovery and prediction of
programmed primary structures derived from quasi-equivalent constitutional isomeric …

Control of One-Handed Helicity in Polyacetylenes: Impact of an Extremely Small Amount of Chiral Substituents

T Ikai, Y Morita, T Majima, S Takeda… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controlling the one-handed helicity in synthetic polymers is crucial for developing helical
polymer-based advanced chiral materials. We now report that an extremely small amount of …

Cogwheel Mechanism of Helical Self-Organization is Thermodynamically Controlled, Self-Repairing, and Universal

D Sahoo, M Peterca, P Leowanawat… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The cogwheel mechanism of helical self-organization, reported by us, generates columns
with the alkyl chains of their components parallel to the column axis. This mechanism …

Helical self-organizations and emerging functions in architectures, biological and synthetic macromolecules

V Percec, Q Xiao - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Helical architectures including artwork and monuments, such us the Trajan's column from
Rome, were constructed as early as in the year 113 while the assemblies and the self …