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Controlling molecular self-assembly on an insulating surface by rationally designing an efficient anchor functionality that maintains structural flexibility

Hauke, Christopher M. ; Bechstein, Ralf ; Kittelmann, Markus ; Storz, Christof ; Kilbinger, Andreas F. M. ; Rahe, Philipp ; Kühnle, Angelika

In: ACS Nano, 2013, vol. 7, no. 6, p. 5491–5498

Molecular self-assembly on surfaces is dictated by the delicate balance between intermolecular and molecule–surface interactions. For many insulating surfaces, however, the molecule–surface interactions are weak and rather unspecific. Enhancing these interactions, on the other hand, often puts a severe limit on the achievable structural variety. To grasp the full potential of molecular...

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a new level of hierarchical structure control by use of supramolecular self-assembled dendronized block copolymers

Li, Chaoxu ; Schlüter, Dieter A. ; Zhang, Afang ; Mezzenga, Raffaele

In: Advanced Materials, 2008, vol. 20, no. 23, p. 4530 - 4534

Complexation of dendronized block copolymers with sulfate alkyl tails forms unprecedented hierarchically ordered bulk structures, including rectangular-in-lamellar, tetragonal-in-lamellar, hexagonal-in-lamellar and lamellar-in-lamellar. These novel liquid-crystalline morphologies, which can be designed at low length scales in these systems, are expected to provide final materials with not only...

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Synthesis of poly(paraphenylene vinylene) - polystyrene-based rod-coil block copolymer by atom transfer radical polymerization: Toward a self-organized lamellar semiconducting material

Brochon, Cyril ; Sary, Nicolas ; Mezzenga, Raffaele ; Ngov, Chheng ; Richard, Fanny ; May, Michaël ; Hadziioannou, Georges

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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Functional columnar liquid crystalline phases from ionic complexes of dendronized polymers and sulfate alkyl tails

Canilho, Nadia ; Kasëmi, Edis ; Schlüter, Dieter A. ; Ruokolainen, Janne ; Mezzenga, Raffaele

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...