Slothful gelation of a dipolar building block by “top-down” morphology transition from microparticles to nanofibres
- 7 May 2013
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- Vol. 49 (51) , 5757-5759
Abstract
An amide-functionalized dipolar building block showed spontaneous self-assembly to micro-particles predominately by H-bonding. Possibly due to inefficient dipolar interaction, it gradually adopted an alternate mode of assembly by anti-parallel dimerization and H-bonding in orthogonal directions leading to a strikingly different nano-fibrillar morphology resulting in unusually slow gelation after 80 h.Keywords
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