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Aromatic micelles: toward a third-generation of micelles

Micelles are useful and widely applied molecular assemblies, formed from amphiphilic molecules, in water. The majority of amphiphiles possess an alkyl chain as the hydrophobic part. Amphiphiles bearing hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymer chains generate so-called polymeric micelles in water. This re...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: YOSHIZAWA, Michito, CATTI, Lorenzo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japan Academy 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9851959/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36631075
http://dx.doi.org/10.2183/pjab.99.002
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Sumario:Micelles are useful and widely applied molecular assemblies, formed from amphiphilic molecules, in water. The majority of amphiphiles possess an alkyl chain as the hydrophobic part. Amphiphiles bearing hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymer chains generate so-called polymeric micelles in water. This review focuses on the recent progress of “aromatic micelles”, formed from bent polyaromatic/aromatic amphiphiles, for the development of third-generation micelles. Thanks to multiple host-guest interactions, e.g., the hydrophobic effect and π-π/CH-π interactions, the present micelles display wide-ranging uptake abilities toward various hydrophobic compounds in water. In addition to such host functions, new stimuli-responsive aromatic micelles with pH, light, and redox switches, aromatic oligomer micelles, saccharide-coated aromatic micelles, and related cycloalkane-based micelles were recently developed by our group.