Journal
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
Volume 19, Issue 30, Pages 19847-19868Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7cp03149a
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- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [M1170-N16, V249-N27]
- Austrian Academy of Sciences (OAW) [11723]
- FWF [P26253-N27, M 1650-N27, P27544-N28]
- European Commission [702298-DELTAS]
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [V249, P27544, P26253] Funding Source: Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) [V 249] Funding Source: researchfish
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Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to create complex structures with tailored properties: even though isotropically interacting units already guarantee access to a vast range of functional materials, anisotropic interactions can provide extra instructions to steer the assembly of specific architectures. The anisotropy of effective interactions gives rise to a wealth of self-assembled structures both in the realm of suitably synthesized nano- and micro-sized building blocks and in nature, where the isotropy of interactions is often a zero-th order description of the complicated reality. In this review, we span a vast range of systems characterized by limited bonding valence, from patchy colloids of new generation to polymer-based functionalized nanoparticles, DNA-based systems and proteins, and describe how the interaction patterns of the single building blocks can be designed to tailor the properties of the target final structures.
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