Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules

Autor(en)

Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Ivan Coluzza, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Peter D. J. van Oostrum

Abstrakt

Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to create complex structures with tailored properties: even though isotropically interacting units already guarantee access to a vast range of functional materials, anisotropic interactions can provide extra instructions to steer the assembly of specific architectures. The anisotropy of effective interactions gives rise to a wealth of self-assembled structures both in the realm of suitably synthesized nano- and micro-sized building blocks and in nature, where the isotropy of interactions is often a zero-th order description of the complicated reality. In this review, we span a vast range of systems characterized by limited bonding valence, from patchy colloids of new generation to polymer-based functionalized nanoparticles, DNA-based systems and proteins, and describe how the interaction patterns of the single building blocks can be designed to tailor the properties of the target final structures.

Organisation(en)

Computergestützte Physik und Physik der Weichen Materie

Externe Organisation(en)

Technische Universität Wien, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, University of Oxford, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien

Journal

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Band

19

Seiten

19847-19868

Anzahl der Seiten

22

ISSN

1463-9076

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cp03149a

Publikationsdatum

08-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

103015 Kondensierte Materie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Allgemeine Physik und Astronomie, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/0377ef37-e0e4-4053-ba98-96475d23df62