TY - JOUR
T1 - Self-assembly in mesoscopic dimension and artificial supramolecular membranes
AU - Kimizuka, Nobuo
N1 - Funding Information:
This review was supported in part a Grant-in-Aid for the 21st Century COE Program, ‘Functional Innovation of Molecular Informatics’ from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, Sports and Technology of Japan.
PY - 2003/12
Y1 - 2003/12
N2 - The development of mesoscopic supramolecular architectures is an area of growing interest. The field has grown from early works on bilayer membranes, and the design of large (super- or giant-) amphiphiles, hybrid amphiphiles and supramolecular membranes have now been described. Impartment of amphiphilicity to a unit supermolecule allows their hierarchical self-assembly to the mesoscopic structures. A supramolecular combinatorial approach is useful in the development of functional self-assemblies. In addition, self-assembly in ionic liquids has been introduced as a promising area in materials chemistry.
AB - The development of mesoscopic supramolecular architectures is an area of growing interest. The field has grown from early works on bilayer membranes, and the design of large (super- or giant-) amphiphiles, hybrid amphiphiles and supramolecular membranes have now been described. Impartment of amphiphilicity to a unit supermolecule allows their hierarchical self-assembly to the mesoscopic structures. A supramolecular combinatorial approach is useful in the development of functional self-assemblies. In addition, self-assembly in ionic liquids has been introduced as a promising area in materials chemistry.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cbpa.2003.10.010
DO - 10.1016/j.cbpa.2003.10.010
M3 - Review article
C2 - 14644178
AN - SCOPUS:0345327559
VL - 7
SP - 702
EP - 709
JO - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
JF - Current Opinion in Chemical Biology
SN - 1367-5931
IS - 6
ER -