Transferring Micellar Changes to Bulk Properties via Tunable Self-Assembly and Hierarchical Ordering

Abstract

Hierarchical self-assembly is an effective means of preparing useful materials. However, control over assembly across length scales is a difficult challenge, often confounded by the perceived need to redesign the molecular building blocks when new material properties are needed. Here, we show that we can treat a simple dipeptide building block as a polyelectrolyte and use polymer physics approaches to explain the self-assembly over a wide concentration range. This allows us to determine how entangled the system is and therefore how it might be best processed, enabling us to prepare interesting analogues to threads and webs, as well as films that lose order on heating and "noodles" which change dimensions on heating, showing that we can transfer micellar-level changes to bulk properties all from a single building block.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c06898
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Institute of Materials Research (AIMR)
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > School of Infrastructure and Sustainable Engineering > Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry
College of Engineering & Physical Sciences > Aston Polymer Research Group
Aston University (General)
Additional Information: Copyright © 2022, The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License CC BY [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/]. Acknowledgements & Funding: The authors thank the University of Glasgow (LT) and the Leverhulme Trust (DM, RPG-2018-013 and LM, RPG-2019-165) for funding. L.S. thanks the BBSRC for funding (BB/S003657/1). This work benefitted from the SasView software, originally developed by the DANSE project under NSF award DMR-0520547. The Ganesha X-ray scattering apparatus was purchased under EPSRC Grant “Atoms to Applications” (EP/K035746/1).
Uncontrolled Keywords: SAXS,WAXS,dipeptide,liquid crystal,micelle,polyelectrolyte,General Materials Science,General Engineering,General Physics and Astronomy
Publication ISSN: 1936-086X
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2024 08:46
Date Deposited: 19 Dec 2022 13:29
Full Text Link:
Related URLs: https://pubs.ac ... acsnano.2c06898 (Publisher URL)
http://www.scop ... tnerID=8YFLogxK (Scopus URL)
PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2022-12-27
Published Online Date: 2022-11-28
Accepted Date: 2022-11-21
Authors: Thomson, Lisa
McDowall, Daniel
Marshall, Libby
Marshall, Olivia
Ng, Henry
Homer, W Joseph A
Ghosh, Dipankar
Liu, Wanli
Squires, Adam M
Theodosiou, Eirini (ORCID Profile 0000-0001-7068-4434)
Topham, Paul D (ORCID Profile 0000-0003-4152-6976)
Serpell, Louise C
Poole, Robert J
Seddon, Annela
Adams, Dave J

Download

[img]

Version: Published Version

License: Creative Commons Attribution

| Preview

Export / Share Citation


Statistics

Additional statistics for this record