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Self-assembling Morphologies Obtained from Helical Polycarbodiimide Copolymers and Their Triazole Derivatives
Published on: February 7, 2017
Self-assembly of alkyl-perylenebisdiimide-DNA amphiphiles and control of their morphology through cyclodextrin-based
Jinyu Gao1, Jiahui Ma1, Cheng Deng1
1Key Laboratory of Hubei Province for Coal Conversion and New Carbon Materials, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430081, P. R. China. zhaozhiyong@wust.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Amphiphilic alkyl-perylenebisdiimide-DNA hybrids self-assemble into spherical micelles and transform into nanofibers upon the addition of β-cyclodextrins due to host-guest interaction. A competitive guest can induce the nanofibers to reversibly change back to spherical micelles. Both spherical micelles and nanofibers can anchor functional molecules at the corona through DNA hybridization.
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