Issue 94, 2013
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Chemical Communications

Synergistic self-assembly of scaffolds and building blocks for directed synthesis of organic nanomaterials†

Sergey A. Dergunov,a   Andrew G. Richter,b   Mariya D. Kim,a   Sai Venkatesh Pingali,c   Volker S. Urbanc  and  Eugene Pinkhassik*a  

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a Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University, 3501 Laclede Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103, USA
E-mail: epinkhas@slu.edu
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Tel: +1 314 977 2845

b Department of Physics and Astronomy, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN 46383, USA

c Center for Structural Molecular Biology, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, P.O. Box 2008 MS-6430, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6430, USA

Abstract

Surfactants and hydrophobic monomers spontaneously assemble into vesicles containing monomers within the bilayer. The joint action of monomers and surfactants is essential in this synergistic self-assembly. Polymerization in the bilayer formed hollow polymer nanocapsules.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CC45847D
Article type
Communication
Submitted
31 Jul 2013
Accepted
23 Sep 2013
First published
23 Sep 2013

Chem. Commun., 2013,49, 11026-11028

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Synergistic self-assembly of scaffolds and building blocks for directed synthesis of organic nanomaterials

S. A. Dergunov, A. G. Richter, M. D. Kim, S. V. Pingali, V. S. Urban and E. Pinkhassik, Chem. Commun., 2013, 49, 11026 DOI: 10.1039/C3CC45847D

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