秩序から混乱へ: 1 nm ドメインを持つトライブロックアンフィフィルの計算設計

Zhengyuan Shen1,2, Jingyi L Chen2,3, Viktoriia Vernadskaia2

  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421 Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United States.

まとめ

研究者はナノスケール構造に 自己組み立て可能な新しいアンフィフィルを設計しました これらの糖質と炭化水素ベースのブロック共ポリマーは,小型化されたアプリケーションの可能性のある秩序付けられたパターンを形成します.

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