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Cover Picture: Effects of Alkyl Chain Length and Hydrogen Bonds on the Cooperative Self‐Assembly of 2‐Thienyl‐Type Diarylethenes at a Liquid/Highly Oriented Pyrolytic Graphite (HOPG) Interface (Chem. Eur. J. 39/2015)
Author(s) -
Yokoyama Soichi,
Hirose Takashi,
Matsuda Kenji
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201583901
Subject(s) - photoisomerization , cooperativity , alkyl , nucleation , hydrogen bond , self assembly , chemical physics , adsorption , materials science , elongation , crystallography , chemistry , supramolecular chemistry , molecule , nanotechnology , isomerization , organic chemistry , catalysis , biochemistry , metallurgy , ultimate tensile strength
Cooperative assembly . plays an important role in the construction of highly stimuli‐responsive functional surfaces. In their Full Paper on page 13569 ff. , K. Matsuda et al. report on the relationship between molecular structure and the cooperative assembly of molecular ordering. Quantitative analysis of concentration dependence of surface coverage using a nucleation–elongation model reveals that the length of alkyl chain, hydrogen bonds, and photoisomerization have a significant effect on the adsorption parameters at a liquid–solid interface. These insights enable the precise control of cooperativity in 2D self‐assembly by a careful design of molecular structure.
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