Entropically driven self-assembly of multichannel rosette nanotubes
- Hicham Fenniri*,†,
- Bo-Liang Deng*,
- Alexander E. Ribbe*,
- Klaas Hallenga*,
- Jaby Jacob‡, and
- Pappannan Thiyagarajan‡
- *1393 Herbert C. Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1393; and ‡Argonne National Laboratory, Intense Pulsed Neutron Source Division, 9700 South Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 60439
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Edited by Julius Rebek, Jr., The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, and approved December 4, 2001 (received for review October 2, 2001)
Abstract
Rosette nanotubes are a new class of organic nanotubes obtained through the hierarchical self-assembly of low molecular weight synthetic modules in water. Here we demonstrate that these materials can serve as scaffolds for the supramolecular synthesis of multichannel nanotubular architectures and report on the discovery of their entropy-driven self-assembly process.
Footnotes
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↵ † To whom reprint requests should be addressed. E-mail: hf{at}purdue.edu.
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This paper results from the Arthur M. Sackler Colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, “Nanoscience: Underlying Physical Concepts and Phenomena,” held May 18–20, 2001, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.
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This paper was submitted directly (Track II) to the PNAS office.
- Abbreviations:
- NOE,
- nuclear Overhauser effect;
- DLS,
- dynamic light scattering;
- SAXS,
- small angle x-ray scattering;
- TEM,
- transmission electron microscopy;
- 2D,
- two-dimensional;
- FT,
- Fourier transform;
- fb,
- flip-back.
- Copyright © 2002, The National Academy of Sciences
