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Frontispiece: Aromatic Micelles as a New Class of Aqueous Molecular Flasks
Author(s) -
Kondo Kei,
Klosterman Jeremy K.,
Yoshizawa Michito
Publication year - 2017
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.201786662
Subject(s) - micelle , amphiphile , nile red , aqueous solution , molecule , chemistry , fullerene , nanotechnology , aqueous medium , pentacene , laboratory flask , organic chemistry , photochemistry , materials science , polymer , fluorescence , physics , thin film transistor , layer (electronics) , quantum mechanics , copolymer
Micelles are one of the oldest classes of supramolecules and typically composed of amphiphilic molecules with aliphatic subunits. This article focuses on the recent development of micellar nanostructures formed from amphiphile compounds with polyaromatic or oligoarylene frameworks. The new aromatic micelles providing polyaromatic shells display superior binding capabilities toward medium to large molecules (for example, Nile red, pentacene, fullerenes, metallo‐phthalocyanines, and carbon nanotubes) in water. For more details, see the Minireview by M. Yoshizawa et al. on page 16710 ff.