Rich Self-Assembly Behavior from a Simple Amphiphile

✍ Scribed by Dr. Xuefeng Li; Yi Yang; Prof. Julian Eastoe; Prof. Jinfeng Dong

• Book ID: 102121843
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 479 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1439-4235
• DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201000500

✦ Synopsis

With environmentally-responsive amphiphiles, structural transformations may be triggered between different aggregation states through controlled changes in conditions, such as pH, type and concentration of electrolyte or light frequency. Conventionally, this field has necessitated designing increasingly more sophisticated surfactants and functionalized polymers, often from multi-step, low-yield and expensive synthetic methodologies. [1] Herein we demonstrate an alternative approach to generating responsive surfactants by introducing a class of compounds stripped back to the essential features for expressing self-assembly (C12NC3N, Scheme 1). This primitive surfac- [b]