Browsing by Subject "Self assembly"

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ABC Triblock Terpolymers with Orthogonally Deprotectable Blocks: Synthesis, Characterization, and Deprotection

Elladiou, Marios; Patrickios, Costas S. (2015)

The development and availability of new protecting groups are vital for all branches of synthetic chemistry. Equally vital is the facile and selective removal of these groups, leaving intact other protecting groups which ...

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Amphiphilic Polymer Conetworks Based on Interconnected Hydrophobic Star Block Copolymers: Synthesis and Characterization

Kepola, Eleni J.; Kyriacou, Kyriacos C.; Patrickios, Costas S.; Simon, Miriam; Gradzielski, M.; Kushnir, M.; Wesdemiotis, Chrystostomos (2017)

Herein we report on the preparation and structural characterization of six amphiphilic polymer conetworks (APCN) based on end-linked amphiphilic “core-first” star block copolymers, comprising methyl methacrylate and ...

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Amyloid-like self-assembly of a dodecapeptide sequence from the adenovirus fiber shaft: Perspectives from molecular dynamics simulations

Tamamis, Phanourios; Archontis, Georgios Z. (2011)

Peptide and protein self-assembly is related to the fundamental problems of protein folding and misfolding and has potential applications in medicine, materials science and nanotechnology. Sequence repeats from self-assembling ...

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Amyloid-like self-assembly of peptide sequences from the adenovirus fiber shaft: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations

Tamamis, Phanourios; Kasotakis, E.; Mitraki, A.; Archontis, Georgios Z. (2009)

The self-assembly of peptides and proteins into nanostructures is related to the fundamental problems of protein folding and misfolding and has potential applications in medicine, materials science and nanotechnology. ...

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Broom-like and flower-like heterostructures of silver molybdate through pH controlled self assembly

Singh, D. P.; Sirota, B.; Talpatra, S.; Kohli, P.; Rebholz, Claus; Aouadi, S. M. (2012)

Silver molybdate microrods are selfassembled into micron sized, broom-like and flowerlike structures. Our investigations indicate that through a simple hydrothermal process, large scale production of such structure is ...

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High-molecular-weight symmetrical multiblock copolymers: Synthesis by RAFT polymerization and characterization

Pafiti, Kyriaki S.; Patrickios, Costas S.; Abetz, Clarissa; Abetz, Volker (2013)

High-molecular-weight (MW) symmetrical multiblock copolymers, based on the hydrophobic monomers styrene (Sty) and methyl methacrylate (MMA), and the more polar monomer, 2-vinyl pyridine (2VPy), were prepared using stepwise ...

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Optical properties of polyelectrolyte quantum dot multilayer films prepared using the layer by layer self-assembly method

Lioudakis, Emmanouil E.; Koupanou, E.; Kanari, C.; Leontidis, Epameinondas; Othonos, Andreas S. (2008)

In this work, we have used spectroscopic ellipsometry to study the optical properties of polyelectrolyte-PbS quantum dot (QD) multilayer films prepared using the layer by layer self-assembly method. The optical results ...

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Self-assembly of an aspartate-rich sequence from the adenovirus fiber shaft: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations and experiments

Tamamis, Phanourios; Terzaki, K.; Kassinopoulos, Marios; Mastrogiannis, L.; Mossou, E.; Forsyth, V. T.; Mitchell, E. P.; Mitraki, A.; Archontis, Georgios Z. (2014)

The self-assembly of short peptides into fibrous nanostructures (such as fibrils and tubes) has recently become the subject of intense theoretical and experimental scrutiny, as such assemblies are promising candidates for ...

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Styrene-vinyl pyridine diblock copolymers: Achieving high molecular weights by the combination of anionic and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer polymerizations

Pafiti, Kyriaki S.; Patrickios, Costas S.; Filiz, Volkan; Rangou, Sofia; Abetz, Clarissa; Abetz, Volker (2013)

Anionic and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerizations were combined for the preparation of high molecular weight (MW) amphiphilic diblock copolymers based on the hydrophobic styrene (Sty) and ...

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Styrene-vinyl pyridine diblock copolymers: Synthesis by RAFT polymerization and self-assembly in solution and in the bulk

Zamfir, M.; Patrickios, Costas S.; Montagne, F.; Abetz, Clarissa; Abetz, Volker; Oss-Ronen, L.; Talmon, Y. (2012)

Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization along with benzyl dithiobenzoate chain transfer agent was employed for the controlled preparation of four diblock copolymers of styrene (St, less polar ...

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Synthesis and characterization of hyperbranched amphiphilic block copolymers prepared via self-condensing RAFT polymerization

Rikkou-Kalourkoti, Maria D.; Elladiou, Marios; Patrickios, Costas S. (2015)

Four families of hyperbranched amphiphilic block copolymers of styrene (Sty, less polar monomer) and 2-vinylpyridine (2VPy, one of the two more polar monomers) or 4-vinylpyridine (4VPy, the other polar monomer) were prepared ...

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Synthesis and size control of luminescent ZnSe nanocrystals by a microemulsion-gas contacting technique

Karanikolos, Georgios N.; Alexandridis, Paschalis; Itskos, Grigorios; Petrou, Athos Chariton; Mountziaris, Triantafillos J. (2004)

A scalable method for controlled synthesis of luminescent compound semiconductor nanocrystals (quantum dots) using microemulsion-gas contacting at room temperature is reported. The technique exploits the dispersed phase ...

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A systematic evaluation of the interplay of weak and strong supramolecular interactions in a series of Co(II) and Zn(II) complexes tuned by ligand modification

Kounavi, Konstantina A.; Manos, Manolis J.; Moushi, Eleni E.; Kitos, Alexandros A.; Papatriantafyllopoulou, Constantina; Tasiopoulos, Anastasios J.; Nastopoulos, Vassilios (2012)

A systematic investigation on a designed series of 21 transition metal complexes has been carried out with the intention to explore and assess the relative strength and the way in which intermolecular interactions, namely, ...