Amphiphilic folded dendrimer discs and their thermosensitive self-assembly in water

Tamer el-Malah; Simone Rolf; Steffen M Weidner; Andreas F Thünemann; Stefan Hecht

doi:10.1002/chem.201200414

Amphiphilic folded dendrimer discs and their thermosensitive self-assembly in water

Chemistry. 2012 May 7;18(19):5837-42. doi: 10.1002/chem.201200414. Epub 2012 Mar 29.

Authors

Tamer el-Malah¹, Simone Rolf, Steffen M Weidner, Andreas F Thünemann, Stefan Hecht

Affiliation

¹ Department of Chemistry, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Brook-Taylor-Strasse 2, 12489 Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 22461207
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201200414

Abstract

Folded dendrimers with peripheral ether side chains show a thermally induced hierarchical aggregation process, in which the transition temperature and the dimensions of the aggregates can readily be tuned via the generation number (see figure).