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Controlling the Size, Shape and Stability of Supramolecular Polymers in Water
Published on: August 2, 2012
Amphiphilic folded dendrimer discs and their thermosensitive self-assembly in water
Tamer el-Malah1, Simone Rolf, Steffen M Weidner
1Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.
Chemistry (Weinheim an Der Bergstrasse, Germany)
|March 31, 2012
Abstract:
Folded dendrimers with peripheral ether side chains show a thermally induced hierarchical aggregation process, in which the transition temperature and the dimensions of the aggregates can readily be tuned via the generation number (see figure).

