Toward controlled hierarchical heterogeneities in giant molecules with precisely arranged nano building blocks

ACS Central Science

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 48-54

  Zhang, Wei ^a   Huang, Mingjun ^a   Su, Hao ^b   Zhang, Siyu ^a   Yue, Kan ^a   Dong, Xue Hui ^a   Li, Xiaopeng ^b   Liu, Hao ^a   Zhang, Shuo ^a   Wesdemiotis, Chrys ^a,c   Lotz, Bernard ^d   Zhang, Wen Bin ^e   Li, Yiwen ^a   Cheng, Stephen Z D ^a  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b Texas State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^e Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIERARCHICAL HETEROGENEITY; HYDROPHOBIC POLYMER CHAINS; POLYHEDRAL OLIGOMERIC SILSESQUIOXANES; SELF-ASSEMBLY BEHAVIORS; STRUCTURAL DIFFERENCES; SUPRAMOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SURFACE FUNCTIONALITIES; SYNTHETIC METHODOLOGY;

MOLECULES;

EID: 84979915702     PISSN: 23747943     EISSN: 23747951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5b00385     Document Type: Article

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