Diversifying Nanoparticle Superstructures and Functions Enabled by Translative Templating from Supramolecular Polymerization.
Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
; 61(18): e202201426, 2022 04 25.
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ABSTRACT
Biology exploits a transcription-translation approach to deliver structural information from DNA to the protein-building machines with high precision. Here, we show how the structural information of small synthetic molecules could be used to guide the assembly of inorganic nanoparticles into diversified yet long-range ordered superstructures, enabling the information transfer across four or five orders of magnitude in length scale. We designed three perylene diimide (PDI) based isomers differing by their site-specific substitutions of the methyl group, which were able to supramolecularly polymerize into diverse structures. Importantly, coassembly of these PDI isomers with nanoparticles (NPs) could produce diverse long-range ordered nanoparticle superstructures, including one-dimensional NPs chains, double helical NPs assemblies and two-dimensional NPs superlattices. Equally important, we demonstrate that the information originated from small molecules could diversify the functions of the self-assembled nanocomposites.
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Nanopartículas
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Angew Chem Int Ed Engl
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2022
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