Amphiphilic building blocks for self-assembly: from amphiphiles to supra-amphiphiles

C Wang, Z Wang, X Zhang - Accounts of chemical research, 2012 - ACS Publications
… With more and more building blocks developed for self-assemblyself-assembly, which is
a spontaneous process but should also be controllable. (49) In nature, the same building blocks

Chemical complexity—supramolecular self-assembly of synthetic and biological building blocks in water

JM Zayed, N Nouvel, U Rauwald… - Chemical Society …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
… this is the solvent in which natural assembly processes occur. This review will place emphasis
on the building blocks required to assemble higher ordered, more complex architectures. …

Self-assembled peptide nanostructures: the design of molecular building blocks and their technological utilization

E Gazit - Chemical Society Reviews, 2007 - pubs.rsc.org
… Such self-assembled structures can be formed by a variety of building blocks, both organic
and inorganic. Of the organic building blocks, peptides are among the most useful ones. …

Phosphines as building blocks in coordination-based self-assembly

SL James - Chemical Society Reviews, 2009 - pubs.rsc.org
… However, their credentials as purely structural building blocks with which to connect together
metal centres into larger assemblies in a controlled and predictable manner are, initially, …

Tethered nano building blocks: Toward a conceptual framework for nanoparticle self-assembly

Zhang, MA Horsch, MH Lamm, SC Glotzer - Nano letters, 2003 - ACS Publications
… We perform molecular simulations to study the self-assembly of nanoparticles functionalized
building blocks the obtained morphologies may be predicted using concepts from block

Inorganic crystal engineering using self-assembly of tailored building-blocks

AJ Blake, NR Champness, P Hubberstey, WS Li… - Coordination Chemistry …, 1999 - Elsevier
… Although the overall structure is predominantly controlled by the coordination preferences
of the transition metal and the ligand building blocks, more subtle effects such as anion control …

Tuning the amphiphilicity of building blocks: controlled selfassembly and disassembly for functional supramolecular materials

Y Wang, H Xu, X Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
… supramolecular assemblies and materials.[4–6] The selfassembly of amphiphiles has been
shown to be of significant importance in many research fields, for example as building blocks

Self-assembly of short peptides to form hydrogels: Design of building blocks, physical properties and technological applications

G Fichman, E Gazit - Acta biomaterialia, 2014 - Elsevier
assembly and properties of physical hydrogels that have been formed by the self-association
of very simple peptide building blocks… , can form ordered gel assemblies. Moreover, in the …

One-dimensional self-assembly of planar π-conjugated molecules: adaptable building blocks for organic nanodevices

L Zang, Y Che, JS Moore - Accounts of chemical research, 2008 - ACS Publications
… The building block molecules employed in the 1D self-assembly described in this Account …
make PTCDIs and AEMs ideal candidates for 1D self-assembly. Particularly, PTCDIs form an …

Multifunctional nanoparticles selfassembled from small organic building blocks for biomedicine

P Xing, Y Zhao - Advanced Materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… nanoparticle systems from self-assembled organic building blocks with a … Low-molecular-weight
building blocks gained significant … Compared to polymeric building blocks, they are more …