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Supra-amphiphiles formed by complexation of azulene-based amphiphiles and pyrene in aqueous solution: from
Fei Li1, Qiao Song, Liulin Yang
1Key Lab of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Haidian District, Beijing 100084, China.
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|January 24, 2013
Abstract:
We have fabricated supra-amphiphiles by charge-transfer complexation of azulene-based amphiphiles and pyrene in water, and the self-assembled nanostructures can reversibly change between cylindrical micelles and disklike nanosheets in response to interaction with guest molecules.
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