期刊
CURRENT OPINION IN COLLOID & INTERFACE SCIENCE
卷 17, 期 6, 页码 330-342出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2012.10.001
关键词
Kinetic control; Self-assembly; Cryo-TEM; TRC-TEM; Water; Pathway dependent self-assembly
资金
- Israel Science Foundation
- Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Molecular Design
Supramolecular systems based on noncovalent bonds are adaptive due to the reversible nature of the noncovalent interactions, enabling stimuli responsiveness, self-healing, facile fabrication, and recyclability. There is much effort devoted to developing new synthetic tools in supramolecular chemistry. Progress in mechanistic understanding is of crucial importance for rational design targeting functional noncovalent nanoscale assemblies. So far, insufficient insight into evolution of noncovalent assemblies hindered our ability to make progress in the field. The typical paradigm in the case of non-covalent self-assembling systems involves the concept of rapid equilibration at ambient conditions. However, when strong noncovalent interactions are involved, kinetic control may dominate the outcome of the self-assembly processes. The ability of water to impose very strong hydrophobic interactions leads to slow transformations between different structural motifs, amenable to structural mechanistic studies. Cryo-TEM emerges as a method that enables direct structural analysis via imaging of frozen evolving assemblies. In this review we focus on cryo-TEM imaging of intermediate structures that evolve along a supramolecular transformation pathway. The structures investigated were trapped and directly visualized, in some cases with subnanometer resolution. Direct structural information obtained by time-resolved cryo-TEM proves to be critical for mechanistic understanding of complex multistep self-assembly processes. Such knowledge is necessary to address the challenge related to rational design of novel functional self-assembled materials. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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