Controlar la autoorganización molecular: formación de esferas y túbulos a escala nanométrica

Orr1, Barbour, Atwood

  • 1Department of Chemistry, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO 65211, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|August 14, 1999
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores crearon estructuras esféricas y helicoidales utilizando bloques de construcción de p-sulfonatocalix[4]areno. Los iones metálicos y el N-óxido de piridina se ensamblan controlados en bicapas paralelas, formando túbulos con diferentes curvaturas.

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