Emergent Self‐Assembly Pathways to Multidimensional Hierarchical Assemblies using a Hetero‐Seeding Approach

Abstract

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Recent progress and future challenges in the supramolecular polymerization of metal-containing monomers

“…91 This approach is based on a stepwise growth of self-assembled structures through addition of monomers to aggregate seed-crystals and has produced promising systems for a number of applications. 92 Using LCDSA, targeted block sequences, 93 as well as diverse heteromorphologies 94 or controlled branching 95 can be achieved. LSP is based on the same principles as LCDSA, namely the successive addition of a kinetically trapped species (monomers or even aggregates) to a solution of seeds of a thermodynamically more stable species, causing a stepwise growth at the termini of the seeds.…”

Design and Control of Perylene Supramolecular Polymers through Imide Substitutions

“…[39] In 2019, Liu et al further explored the hetero-seeding approach to achieve multidimensional hierarchical aggregates. [42] Unprecedented 3D scroll-like, typha-like, and scarf-like nanostructures (Figure 5b) as well as 1D tubular heterostructures (Figure 5c) were achieved by altering seed components and crystalline morphologies. PDI10 is an analogue of PDI9 with a less sterically demanding side chain.…”

Co-assembly of a multicomponent network of nanofiber-wrapped nanotubes

“…[17][18][19][20][21][22] However, stimulating higher order interactions between separate, self-sorted domains within a single nanostructure is exceptionally challenging to achieve because the sorted domains must engage in self/non-self interactions that were not present at the first level of monomer assembly. [23][24][25] The use of heteroseeds to induce the co-assembly of a second monomer has been exploited to create hierarchical 26,27 and blocky [28][29][30][31][32][33] multicomponent nanostructures. Recently, Hamachi and co-workers developed a strategy to control the network-level self-sorting of two nanofibers by controlling the assembly of a peptide-based hydrogelator in the presence of assembled lipid-type nanofibers.…”