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Published on: April 19, 2019
Resorcinarene Induced Assembly of Carotene and Lutein into Hierarchical Superstructures
Liang Li1,2, Wei Tuo2, Qihua Zhu3
1School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Shanghai Institute of Technology, Shanghai, 201418, P. R. China.
Abstract:
The manipulation of carotenoid-based hierarchical superstructures affords attractive properties that facilitate application in biology and photosynthesis. Here, tubular suprastructures formed from water-soluble amide-modified resorcinarene and β-carotene were reported, whereas microsheets were formed when β-carotene was replaced with lutein. These structures were characterized using various measurements, indicating the differences of binding sites between resorcinarene and β-carotene/lutein. Subsequently, the assembly mechanism was described by calculating the formation energy of the assemblies.
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