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A Templating Approach for Monodisperse Self-Assembled Organic Nanostructures
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Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Neurobiology and Physiology, and Radiology, and Departments of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Materials Science & Engineering, and Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208
Received November 30, 2007
Abstract:
The precise structural control is known for self-assembly into closed spherical structures (e.g., micelles), but similar control of open structures is much more challenging. Inspired by natural tobacco mosaic virus, we present the use of a rigid-rod template to control the size of a one-dimensional self-assembly. We believe that this strategy is novel for organic self-assembly and should provide a general approach to controlling size and dimension.
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