“…While their amphiphilic nature makes them attractive candidates for the assembly of nano-scale, metal-containing colloids, the headgroup ligand can impart a rich metal-coordination chemistry that can be used to tune the nature of the self-assembled structures. Metallosurfactants have been reviewed recently from a number of different perspectives, including metallomicelles [1,2], supramolecular aggregates of lipophilic Gd(III)-MRI contrast agents [3], metalloaggregates for catalysis, transport and sensing [4,5], nanoscale molecular containers for fluorescent sensors [6], and for metal extraction strategies [7]. Because the metal-cation is generally located at the hydrophilic–hydrophobic interface of the colloid, metallosurfactants are attractive as catalysts to react with either hydrophilic or hydrophobic substrates [8,9].…”