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Reversible scrolling of two-dimensional sheets from the self-assembly of laterally grafted amphiphilic rods
Eunji Lee1, Jung-Keun Kim, Myongsoo Lee
1Center for Supramolecular Nanoassembly and Department of Chemistry, Yonsei University, Shinchon 134, Seoul 120-749, Korea.
Angewandte Chemie (International Ed. in English)
|April 18, 2009
Abstract:
Deep-water scrolls: It is demonstrated that amphiphilic rods containing lateral flexible chains self-assemble into two-dimensional sheets in aqueous solution (see picture). Remarkably, the sheets roll up reversibly into tubular scrolls upon heating, as confirmed by cryo-transmission electron microscopy and fluorescence microscopy.

