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Breaking symmetry toward nonspherical janus particles based on polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes: Molecular design, "click" synthesis, and hierarchical structure
Li, Yiwen,Zhang, Wen-Bin,Hsieh, I-Fan,Zhang, Guoliang,Cao, Yan,Li, Xiaopeng,Wesdemiotis, Chrys,Lotz, Bernard,Xiong, Huiming,Cheng, Stephen Z. D.
, p. 10712 - 10715 (2011)
The design, synthesis, and self-assembly of a series of precisely defined, nonspherical, polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-based molecular Janus particles are reported. The synthesis aims to fulfill the "click" philosophy by using thiol-ene chemistry to efficiently install versatile functionalities on one of the POSS cages. In such a way, both the geometrical and chemical symmetries were broken to create the Janus feature. These particles self-organize into hierarchically ordered supramolecular structures in the bulk. For example, the Janus particle with isobutyl groups on one POSS and carboxylic groups on the other self-assembles into a bilayered structure with head-to-head, tail-to-tail arrangements of each particle, which further organize into a three-dimensional orthorhombic lattice. While the ordered structure in the layers was lost upon heating via a first-order transition, the bilayered structure persisted throughout. This study provides a model system of well-defined molecular Janus particles for the general understanding of their self-assembly and hierarchical structure formation in the condensed state.
