Environment-Adaptive Coassembly/Self-Sorting and Stimulus-Responsiveness Transfer Based on Cholesterol Building Blocks.

ABSTRACT: Manipulating the property transfer in nanosystems is a challenging task since it requires switchable molecular packing such as separate aggregation (self-sorting) or synergistic aggregation (coassembly). Herein, a unique manipulation of self-sorting/coassembly aggregation and the observation of switchable stimulus-responsiveness transfer in a two component self-assembly system are reported. Two building blocks bearing the same cholesterol group give versatile topological structures in polar and nonpolar solvents. One building block (cholesterol conjugated cynanostilbene, CCS) consists of cholesterol conjugated with a cynanostilbene unit, and the other one (C₁₀CN) is comprised of cholesterol connected with a naphthalimide group having a flexible long alkyl chain. Their assemblies

SUBMITTER: Xing P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770671 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature