Issue 2, 2020

Supramolecular assembly by time-programmed acid autocatalysis

Abstract

Autocatalytic pH clocks can be useful to control self-assembly in the time domain. Their applications are, however, limited by the currently available toolbox. We describe here an approach for the design of a dynamic pH switch that generates intense alkali-to-acid changes after a tailorable lagtime (from minutes to hours), and we demonstrate its application for the time-controlled supramolecular self-assembly of nanofibers.

Graphical abstract: Supramolecular assembly by time-programmed acid autocatalysis

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
11 Oct 2019
Accepted
19 Nov 2019
First published
20 Nov 2019
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2020,5, 445-448

Supramolecular assembly by time-programmed acid autocatalysis

G. Panzarasa, T. Sai, A. L. Torzynski, K. Smith-Mannschott and E. R. Dufresne, Mol. Syst. Des. Eng., 2020, 5, 445 DOI: 10.1039/C9ME00139E

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