Hierarchically oriented organization in supramolecular peptide crystals

C Yuan, W Ji, R Xing, J Li, E Gazit, X Yan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2019 - nature.com
Hierarchical self-assembly and crystallization with long-range ordered spatial arrangement
is ubiquitous in nature and plays an essential role in the regulation of structures and …

Perylene bisimide dye assemblies as archetype functional supramolecular materials

F Würthner, CR Saha-Möller, B Fimmel… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
When many of the currently largest chemical companies were founded about 150 years ago,
textile dyes constituted their first products. Interestingly, while most of the utilized colorants …

Supramolecular polymorphism in one-dimensional self-assembly by kinetic pathway control

M Wehner, MIS Röhr, M Bühler… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Controlling polymorphism in molecular solids is of great interest since the properties and
performances of molecular materials depend on the molecules' mutual packing …

From structure to function via complex supramolecular dendrimer systems

HJ Sun, S Zhang, V Percec - Chemical Society Reviews, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
This tutorial review summarizes strategies elaborated for the discovery and prediction of
programmed primary structures derived from quasi-equivalent constitutional isomeric …

Helical self-organizations and emerging functions in architectures, biological and synthetic macromolecules

V Percec, Q Xiao - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Helical architectures including artwork and monuments, such us the Trajan's column from
Rome, were constructed as early as in the year 113 while the assemblies and the self …

Pathway complexity in π-conjugated materials

PA Korevaar, TFA de Greef, EW Meijer - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
To arrive at functional organic materials with optimal molecular organization, control over the
aggregation process is a prerequisite. Often, however, multiple pathways are involved that …

A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality

C Roche, HJ Sun, P Leowanawat, F Araoka… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The functions of complex crystalline systems derived from supramolecular biological and
non-biological assemblies typically emerge from homochiral programmed primary structures …

Homochiral columns constructed by chiral self-sorting during supramolecular helical organization of hat-shaped molecules

C Roche, HJ Sun, ME Prendergast… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
A library of dendronized cyclotriveratrylene (CTV) crowns substituted with chiral, racemic, or
achiral peripheral alkyl chains, including enantiopure R and S branched alkyls,“racemic by …

Self-assembly of multi-stranded perylene dye J-aggregates in columnar liquid-crystalline phases

S Herbst, B Soberats, P Leowanawat, M Stolte… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Many discoid dyes self-assemble into columnar liquid-crystalline (LC) phases with packing
arrangements that are undesired for photonic applications due to H-type exciton coupling …

Cogwheel Mechanism of Helical Self-Organization is Thermodynamically Controlled, Self-Repairing, and Universal

D Sahoo, M Peterca, P Leowanawat… - Journal of the American …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The cogwheel mechanism of helical self-organization, reported by us, generates columns
with the alkyl chains of their components parallel to the column axis. This mechanism …