Self-Assembly of Interlocked Supramolecular Dendrimers

2004 ◽  
Vol 69 (7) ◽  
pp. 2618-2621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kyu-Sung Jeong ◽  
Eun-Jin Park
2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (11) ◽  
pp. 4747-4749 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yao-Rong Zheng ◽  
Koushik Ghosh ◽  
Hai-Bo Yang ◽  
Peter J. Stang

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (44) ◽  
pp. 7321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Castelar ◽  
Joaquín Barberá ◽  
Mercedes Marcos ◽  
Pilar Romero ◽  
José-Luis Serrano ◽  
...  

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (10) ◽  
pp. 1564-1567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Franz ◽  
Walter Bauer ◽  
Andreas Hirsch

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (46) ◽  
pp. 7988-7994 ◽  
Author(s):  
Senbin Chen ◽  
Matthias Schulz ◽  
Bob-Dan Lechner ◽  
Clement Appiah ◽  
Wolfgang H. Binder

A X–Y2 type heterotropic single-chain polymer, Ba-(PnBuA-HW)2, is prepared in a one-pot two-step reaction, subsequently self-assembling into supramolecular dendrimers, which are displaying solvent-dependent disc-like hierarchical nanoscopic structures as evidenced by AFM.


2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (48) ◽  
pp. 14242-14246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Merschky ◽  
Monika Wyszogrodzka ◽  
Rainer Haag ◽  
Carsten Schmuck

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (69) ◽  
pp. 65179-65185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Concellón ◽  
Madalina Bucoş ◽  
José Luis Serrano ◽  
Pilar Romero ◽  
Mercedes Marcos

Supramolecular dendrimers prepared via H-bonding between porphyrin core and bifunctionalised dendrons, incorporated in the periphery, display photoluminescence properties and self-assembly into smectic mesophase.


Author(s):  
D. Reis ◽  
B. Vian ◽  
J. C. Roland

Wall morphogenesis in higher plants is a problem still open to controversy. Until now the possibility of a transmembrane control and the involvement of microtubules were mostly envisaged. Self-assembly processes have been observed in the case of walls of Chlamydomonas and bacteria. Spontaneous gelling interactions between xanthan and galactomannan from Ceratonia have been analyzed very recently. The present work provides indications that some processes of spontaneous aggregation could occur in higher plants during the formation and expansion of cell wall.Observations were performed on hypocotyl of mung bean (Phaseolus aureus) for which growth characteristics and wall composition have been previously defined.In situ, the walls of actively growing cells (primary walls) show an ordered three-dimensional organization (fig. 1). The wall is typically polylamellate with multifibrillar layers alternately transverse and longitudinal. Between these layers intermediate strata exist in which the orientation of microfibrils progressively rotates. Thus a progressive change in the morphogenetic activity occurs.


Author(s):  
M. Kessel ◽  
R. MacColl

The major protein of the blue-green algae is the biliprotein, C-phycocyanin (Amax = 620 nm), which is presumed to exist in the cell in the form of distinct aggregates called phycobilisomes. The self-assembly of C-phycocyanin from monomer to hexamer has been extensively studied, but the proposed next step in the assembly of a phycobilisome, the formation of 19s subunits, is completely unknown. We have used electron microscopy and analytical ultracentrifugation in combination with a method for rapid and gentle extraction of phycocyanin to study its subunit structure and assembly.To establish the existence of phycobilisomes, cells of P. boryanum in the log phase of growth, growing at a light intensity of 200 foot candles, were fixed in 2% glutaraldehyde in 0.1M cacodylate buffer, pH 7.0, for 3 hours at 4°C. The cells were post-fixed in 1% OsO4 in the same buffer overnight. Material was stained for 1 hour in uranyl acetate (1%), dehydrated and embedded in araldite and examined in thin sections.


Author(s):  
Alan S. Rudolph ◽  
Ronald R. Price

We have employed cryoelectron microscopy to visualize events that occur during the freeze-drying of artificial membranes by employing real time video capture techniques. Artificial membranes or liposomes which are spherical structures within internal aqueous space are stabilized by water which provides the driving force for spontaneous self-assembly of these structures. Previous assays of damage to these structures which are induced by freeze drying reveal that the two principal deleterious events that occur are 1) fusion of liposomes and 2) leakage of contents trapped within the liposome [1]. In the past the only way to access these events was to examine the liposomes following the dehydration event. This technique allows the event to be monitored in real time as the liposomes destabilize and as water is sublimed at cryo temperatures in the vacuum of the microscope. The method by which liposomes are compromised by freeze-drying are largely unknown. This technique has shown that cryo-protectants such as glycerol and carbohydrates are able to maintain liposomal structure throughout the drying process.


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