Hydrogen-Bond Driven Self-Assembly of Two-Dimensional Supramolecular Melamine-Cyanuric Acid Crystals and Its Self-Alignment in Polymer Composites for Enhanced Thermal Conduction

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (6) ◽  
pp. 1291-1300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nitin Mehra ◽  
Madelyn Jeske ◽  
Xutong Yang ◽  
Junwei Gu ◽  
Marjan Alsadat Kashfipour ◽  
...  
Soft Matter ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laicheng Zhou ◽  
Ran He ◽  
Yang Qin ◽  
Yi-Lin Wu ◽  
Li Jiang ◽  
...  

Utilizing combined non-covalent interactions and introducing anions as structure-directing factors to build oriented self-assembly and 2D crystalline nanosheet superstructures with precise distance control of surface charges in competitive aqueous solvents...


2009 ◽  
Vol 87 (5) ◽  
pp. 627-639 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felaniaina Rakotondradany ◽  
Hanadi Sleiman ◽  
M. A. Whitehead

A novel biomimetic DNA analogue with fluorescence has been synthesized to generate functional supramolecular architectures. Experimental studies show that triaminopyrimidine nucleoside (2) undergoes a sterically controlled self-assembly into hydrogen-bonded linear tapes and hexameric rosettes. Self-association of the hydrogen-bonded triaminopyrimidine–cyanuric acid complex into elongated, rodlike nanostructures was shown by dynamic light scattering and transmission electron microscopy, suggesting hierarchical formation of higher-order, π-stacked assemblies. The hydrogen-bond self-assembly of the DNA analogue decreased the fluorescence of the nucleosides. This guest-induced fluorescence quenching can be used to develop DNA-hybridization probes. MM+ molecular modelling and semi-empirical molecular orbital PM3 calculations (1) predicted the incorporation of triaminopyrimidine nucleoside into new types of artificial DNA strands and triplex formation with natural, complementary DNA strands containing thymine (1).


Author(s):  
Hui-Juan Yan ◽  
Jia Liu ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
Li-Jun Wan

Guiding the self-assembly of different types of functional molecules into well-defined structures on surfaces is beneficial for both fundamental surface and interface study and emerging application fields, especially molecular and organic electronics. This review focuses on understanding the two-dimensional self-assembly process of telechelic organics, which feature alkoxylene chains terminated with carboxyl groups. With the combined flexibility of alkyl chains and directionality of carboxyl groups, telechelic organics show unique assembly behaviour on two-dimensional surfaces. By increasing the length of the alkoxylene chains, the cavities in the nanoporous networks of telechelic trimesic acid (1,3,5-benzene tricarboxylic acid) derivatives change from hexagonal cavities to irregular cavities on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite surface. The nanoporous networks provide a flexible host template for host–guest supramolecular chemistry because the cavities framed by the flexible alkoxylene chains can be changed in accordance with the sizes/shapes of the guest molecules. Furthermore, the terminal carboxylic group can form a hydrogen bond with another hydrogen bond partner, leading to multi-component structural motifs and hierarchical assemblies. The unique assembly behaviour of telechelic organics makes them promising structures as important building blocks for the design and construction of complex self-assembled nanoarchitectures.


Molecules ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (11) ◽  
pp. 3310
Author(s):  
Shengda Liu ◽  
Jiayun Xu ◽  
Xiumei Li ◽  
Tengfei Yan ◽  
Shuangjiang Yu ◽  
...  

In the past few decades, enormous efforts have been made to synthesize covalent polymer nano/microstructured materials with specific morphologies, due to the relationship between their structures and functions. Up to now, the formation of most of these structures often requires either templates or preorganization in order to construct a specific structure before, and then the subsequent removal of previous templates to form a desired structure, on account of the lack of “self-error-correcting” properties of reversible interactions in polymers. The above processes are time-consuming and tedious. A template-free, self-assembled strategy as a “bottom-up” route to fabricate well-defined nano/microstructures remains a challenge. Herein, we introduce the recent progress in template-free, self-assembled nano/microstructures formed by covalent two-dimensional (2D) polymers, such as polymer capsules, polymer films, polymer tubes and polymer rings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (30) ◽  
pp. 10173-10178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hao Tian ◽  
Jieqiong Qin ◽  
Dan Hou ◽  
Qian Li ◽  
Chen Li ◽  
...  

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