Subsections
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- Self-assembly in bulk and interfaces, basic concepts and examples, rules of selfassembly, synthetic self-assembled materials: microscopic and macroscopic interactions.
- Self-assembly in Nature, biomimetic systems and soft materials: micelles, vesicles, liposomes and bilayers, gels: hydrogels, organogels and ionogels, liquid crystalline materials, dendrimers, DNA self-assembly, self-assembled monolayers.
- Mechanically-interlocked molecular architectures, rotaxanes and cyclotides, catenanes, molecular knots, dynamic covalent chemistry, self-replicating systems, dynamic assembly of block-copolymers, supramolecular nanotubes.
- Applications of self-assembled systems in drug delivery systems, antimicrobial agents, artificial photosynthetic machines, enzyme mimics, tissue engineering.
- Jonathan W. Steed, Jerry L. Atwood, Supramolecular Chemistry.
- Alex Li, Molecular Self-Assembly - Advances and Applications.
- Joost N. H. Reek (Editor) & Sijbren Otto (Editor), Dynamic Combinatorial Chemistry.
- Ian W. Hamley, Introduction to Soft Matter: Synthetic and Biological Self-Assembling Materials
