Interweaving Elastic and Hydrogen Bond‐Forming Polymers into Highly Tough and Stress‐Relaxable Binders for High‐Performance Silicon Anode in Lithium‐Ion …

D Jeong, J Yook, DS Kwon, J Shim… - Advanced Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A central challenge in practically using high‐capacity silicon (Si) as anode materials for
lithium‐ion batteries is alleviating significant volume change of Si during cycling. One key to …

Polymeric Bowl‐Shaped Nanoparticles: Hollow Structures with a Large Opening on the Surface

H Sun, Y Gao, Y Fan, J Du, J Jiang… - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polymeric bowl‐shaped nanoparticles (BNPs) are anisotropic hollow structures with large
openings on the surface, which have shown advantages such as high specific area and …

Vesicles: self-assembly beyond biological lipids

AR Sapala, S Dhawan, V Haridas - RSC advances, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly is a powerful strategy for the development of various intricate supramolecular
architectures through non-covalent interactions. Non-covalent interactions can be utilized to …

Solvent Effects upon Guest Binding and Dynamics of a FeII4L4 Cage

JL Bolliger, TK Ronson, M Ogawa… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Solvent-dependent host–guest chemistry and favoring of otherwise disfavored
conformations of large guests has been achieved with an adaptive, self-assembled FeII4L4 …

Solvent mixing to induce molecular motor aggregation into bowl-shaped particles: underlying mechanism, particle nature, and application to control motor behavior

LE Franken, Y Wei, J Chen, EJ Boekema… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Control over dynamic functions in larger assemblies is key to many molecular systems,
ranging from responsive materials to molecular machines. Here we report a molecular motor …

Rotor orientation direction controls geometric curvature and chirality for assemblies of motor amphiphiles in water

YH Yang, Y Qin, Y Zhang, L Zhang - Aggregate, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Control over geometric curvature and chirality of assemblies in pure aqueous media is key
to the design of responsive materials and molecular machines. Here we show how …

Slothful gelation of a dipolar building block by “top-down” morphology transition from microparticles to nanofibres

A Das, B Maity, D Koley, S Ghosh - Chemical Communications, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
An amide-functionalized dipolar building block showed spontaneous self-assembly to micro-
particles predominately by H-bonding. Possibly due to inefficient dipolar interaction, it …

Enhancing drug delivery with supramolecular amphiphilic macrocycle nanoparticles: selective targeting of CDK4/6 inhibitor palbociclib to melanoma

MF Attia, EA Ogunnaike, M Pitz, NM Elbaz… - Biomaterials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Drug delivery systems based on amphiphilic supramolecular macrocycles have garnered
increased attention over the past two decades due to their ability to successfully formulate …

Novel supramolecular conjugated polyrotaxane as an acid-base controllable optical molecular switch

T Shukla, R Arumugaperumal, P Raghunath… - Sensors and Actuators B …, 2017 - Elsevier
To study the supramolecular interactions of the mechanically interlocked rotaxane pendants
with the backbone of two comparable conjugated polymers, axle polymer P1 and …

Molecular Pom Poms from Self‐Assembling α, γ‐Cyclic Peptides

M Panciera, M Amorín, JR Granja - Chemistry–A European …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The hierarchical self‐assembly properties of a dimer‐forming cyclic peptide that bears a
nicotinic acid moiety to form molecular pom‐pom‐like structures are described. This dimeric …