In: Nature Nanotechnology, 2010, vol. 5, p. 423 - 428
The aggregation of proteins is central to many aspects of daily life, including food processing, blood coagulation, eye cataract formation disease and prion-related neurodegenerative infections. However, the physical mechanisms responsible for amyloidosis—the irreversible fibril formation of various proteins that is linked to disorders such as Alzheimer's, Creutzfeldt–Jakob and Huntington's...
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In: Biomacromolecules, 2012, vol. 13, no. 10, p. 3241–3252
We have investigated the thermodynamic and dynamic behavior of multistranded β-lactoglobulin protein fibrils in water, by combining static, dynamic, and depolarized dynamic light scattering (SLS, DLS, DDLS), small angle neutron scattering (SANS), rheology, and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM). We focus on the region of the phase diagram at which ionic strength and...
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In: Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2008, vol. 110, no. 6, p. 3664 - 3670
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was used as a versatile route to well-defined poly(diethylhexyl-p-phenylenevinylene-b-styrene) (PPV-b-PS) semiconducting block copolymers. For this purpose, original conjugated macroinitiators were synthesized from DEH-PPV and further used for the copolymerization reaction. The microphase-separated morphologies obtained with the semiconducting PPV-b-PS...
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In: Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2006, vol. 128, no. 43, p. 13998-13999
The use of cationic dendronized polymers as a polyelectrolytic system for templating thermotropic liquid-crystalline phases (LC) via complexation and self-assembly with counter-charged ionic lipids is described. The topology of the LC phases resulting from the self-assembly process, their lattice parameter, and the interpenetration of lipid chains is discussed via birefringency analysis and...
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In: Macromolecules, 2007, vol. 40, no. 8, p. 2822 -2830
This work describes the self-assembly behavior, the structure, the state, and phase diagrams of comblike liquid-crystalline polymers obtained by supramolecular ionic complexation of cationic dendronized polymers (PG1-PG3) and anionic sulfonated lipid surfactants. In order to characterize the influence of both the polymer and the surfactant on the microphase separation of...
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In: Macromolecules, 2007, vol. 40, no. 21, p. 7609 -7616
The present work describes the molecular structure and the topology in real space of self-assembled comblike liquid crystalline polymers based on supramolecular ionic complexation of dendronized polymers and lipids. The molecular organization was studied as a function of the generation of the dendronized polymers and the length of the lipid tails, both parameters being known to strongly influence...
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In: Macromolecules, 2008, vol. 40, no. 23, p. 8374 -8383
This work describes the dilute solution and solid-state structure of polyelectrolyte complexes generated from hyperbranched polylysine (HBPL) and various anionic, sodium alkyl sulfate surfactants. In dilute solution, the radius of gyration (Rg) of the HBPL and HBPL-surfactant complexes was determined in the Guinier regime in good solvent conditions by means of small-angle X-ray...
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In: Macromolecular Symposia, 2008, vol. 270, no. 1, p. 58 - 64
We describe how cationic dendronized polymers of generations 1, and 2 and anionic monoalkyl tails can be combined by supramolecular ionic complexation into comb-like liquid crystalline polymers. The final structures in bulk of these supramolecular complexes were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), cross-polarized optical microscopy (CPOM), small angle x-rays scattering (SAXS) and...
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In: Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2008, vol. 29, no. 4, p. 299-303
A peptide-synthetic hybrid block copolymer, poly(ethylene oxide)-block-poly(L-glutamic acid), is shown to form supramolecular complexes with primary alkylamines of varying alkyl chain lengths (8 to 18 methylene units) in organic solvents via acid-base proton transfer and subsequent ionic bonding. The peptidic block being in the α-helical conformation, these materials behave as...
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In: Soft Matter, 2008, vol. 4, p. 952-961
Supramolecular attachment of mesogenic or non-mesogenic side chains to polymer backbones can result in the formation of liquid crystalline morphologies. The various parameters that can be tuned in order to achieve these morphologies, such as the type of non-covalent bonding chemistry (hydrogen bonding, ionic bonding, metal coordination, π–π interactions), the polymeric template architecture,...
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