Stabilizing interfacial micellar aggregates by enhanced supramolecular interaction or surface polymerization*
Bo Song, Zhiqiang Wang, and Xi Zhang
Key Laboratory of Optoelectronics and Molecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Abstract: This presentation describes the surface micelles formed by self-organization of amphiphilic molecules at the solid/liquid interface, and reviews the methods of stabilizing the surface micelles by enhancing the intermolecular interaction or introducing covalent bonds in self-assemblies. This type of work may provide new avenues for fabricating organic nanostructure materials, as well as possible applications arising from the mimicry of biomineralization processes.
Keywords: scanning transitiometry; sampling; particle synthesis.
*Paper presented at the 40th IUPAC Congress, Beijing, China, 14-19 August 2005. Other presentations are published in this issue, pp. 889-1090.