Rationally Controlling the Self-Assembly Behavior of Triarmed POSS–Organic Hybrid Macromolecules: From Giant Surfactants to Macroions

Zhang, Wei; Chu, Yang; Mu, Gaoyan; Eghtesadi, Seyed Ali; Liu, Yuchu; Zhou, Zhe; Lu, Xinlin; Kashfipour, Marjan Alsadat; Lillard, R. S.; Yue, Kan; Liu, Tianbo; Cheng, Stephen Z. D.

doi:10.1021/acs.macromol.7b00963

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“…A more systematic example is the tri‐armed POSS‐organic hybrids. With the long polystyrene (PS) linker, the hybrid shows the properties of amphiphilic surfactants, while with the same topology but shorter linker, the hybrid behaves like macroions . The tricky case is the “dumb‐bell“ shaped hybrids.…”

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Self‐Assembly of Polyoxometalate–Peptide Hybrids in Solution: Elucidating the Contributions of Multiple Possible Driving Forces

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Abstract:Incorporating the building blocks of nature (e.g., peptides and DNA) into inorganic polyoxometalate (POM) clusters is a promising approach to improve the compatibilities of POMs in biological fields. To extend their biological applications, it is necessary to understand the importance of different non-covalent interactions during self-organization. A series of Anderson POM-peptide hybrids have been used as a simple model to demonstrate the role of different interactions in POM-peptide (biomolecules) systems. Regardless of peptide chain length, these hybrids follow similar solution behaviors,

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Self‐Assembly of Polyoxometalate–Peptide Hybrids in Solution: Elucidating the Contributions of Multiple Possible Driving Forces

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“…To overcome the notorious aggregation of nanoparticles in the anisotropic LC media, various methods for achieving automatic LC alignment have been developed, including functionalized nanoparticles referred to as organic–inorganic hybrid materials . The enhancement of intermolecular interactions between nanoparticles and LC molecules achieved by chemical modification does not necessarily result in the materials with maximally improved physical properties, since functional groups on the nanoparticle surface are randomly distributed .…”

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Asymmetric Fullerene Nanosurfactant: Interface Engineering for Automatic Molecular Alignments

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Since the molecular self‐assembly of nanomaterials is sensitive to their surface properties, the molecular packing structure on the surface is essential to build the desired chemical and physical properties of nanomaterials. Here, a new nanosurfactant is proposed for the automatic construction of macroscopic surface alignment layer for liquid crystal (LC) molecules. An asymmetric nanosurfactant (C60NS) consisted of mesogenic cyanobiphenyl moieties with flexible alkyl chains and a [60]fullerene nanoatom is newly designed and precisely synthesized. The C60NS directly introduced in the anisotropic LC medium is self‐assembled into the monolayered protrusions on the surface because of its amphiphilic nature originated by asymmetrically programmed structural motif of LC‐favoring moieties and LC‐repelling groups. The monolayered protrusions constructed by the phase‐separation and self‐assembly of asymmetric C60NS nanosurfactant in the anisotropic LC media amplify and transfer the molecular orientational order from surface to bulk, and finally create the automatic vertical molecular alignment on the macroscopic length scale. The asymmetric C60NS nanosurfactant and its self‐assembly described herein can offer the direct guideline of interface engineering for the automatic molecular alignments.

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“…The structures vary depending on the type of substance used and the environment in which they are located [ 75 ]. Recently, there has been tremendous interest in hybridized amphiphilic polymers with POSS nanocages [ 76 , 77 , 78 , 79 ]. Thus, a variety of interesting studies have been conducted to develop new synthetic protocols and explore their self-assembly behavior.…”

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Self-Assembly and Applications of Amphiphilic Hybrid POSS Copolymers

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Understanding the mechanism of molecular self-assembly to form well-organized nanostructures is essential in the field of supramolecular chemistry. Particularly, amphiphilic copolymers incorporated with polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSSs) have been one of the most promising materials in material science, engineering, and biomedical fields. In this review, new ideas and research works which have been carried out over the last several years in this relatively new area with a main focus on their mechanism in self-assembly and applications are discussed. In addition, insights into the unique role of POSSs in synthesis, microphase separation, and confined size were encompassed. Finally, perspectives and challenges related to the further advancement of POSS-based amphiphilics are discussed, followed by the proposed design considerations to address the challenges that we may face in the future.

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Rationally Controlling the Self-Assembly Behavior of Triarmed POSS–Organic Hybrid Macromolecules: From Giant Surfactants to Macroions

Cited by 36 publications

References 55 publications

Self‐Assembly of Polyoxometalate–Peptide Hybrids in Solution: Elucidating the Contributions of Multiple Possible Driving Forces

Self‐Assembly of Polyoxometalate–Peptide Hybrids in Solution: Elucidating the Contributions of Multiple Possible Driving Forces

Asymmetric Fullerene Nanosurfactant: Interface Engineering for Automatic Molecular Alignments

Self-Assembly and Applications of Amphiphilic Hybrid POSS Copolymers

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