Emergence of Compartments Formed from Unconventional Surfactants in Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries

: Boris Bartolec, Giulia Leonetti, Jianwei Li, Wietse Smit, Meniz Altay, Guillermo Monreal Santiago, Yichen Yan, Sijbren Otto

Publisher: Amer Chemical Soc

: 2019

: Langmuir

: LANGMUIR

: 35

: 17

: 5787

: 5792

: 6

: 0743-7463

: 1520-5827

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03662

: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/40885253

Assembly processes can drive the selection of self-assembling molecules in dynamic combinatorial libraries, yielding self-synthesizing materials. We now show how such selection in a dynamic combinatorial library made from an amphiphilic building block which, by itself, assembles into micelles, can yield membranous aggregates ranging from vesicles to sponge phases. These aggregates are made from a mixture of unconventional surfactant molecules, showing the power of dynamic combinatorial selection approaches for the discovery of new, not readily predictable, self-assembly motifs.

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