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Synthesis and Self-assembly of Giant Shape Amphiphiles Based on Rod-like Polymers and Precisely Functionalized Fullerenes

Yang, Xing
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491576298738033

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2017, Master of Science, University of Akron, Polymer Science.
Self-assembly is a hot phenomenon these years that many scientists focus. It is a spontaneously process that components in a system assemble themselves to get a larger functional unit. As the technological advancements increasing, the nanometer scale study of materials is going to become more and more important. A wide variety of materials can be built because of the increasingly complex structures which we get from self-assembled nanoparticles. They can be used for different purposes. One of the self-assembly particle is shape amphiphiles.[1] Shape amphiphiles are based on competing interactions and molecular segments of distinct shapes. While computer simulation has predicted intriguing self-assembly behaviors of shape amphiphiles, experimental investigation is largely unexplored. My research will be focusing on the synthesis of a precisely defined shape amphiphiles based on functionalized fullerenes (C60) and rod-like polyfluorene, where the two different types of functionalized C60 will be placed at the two ends of polyfluorene.[2] Also the assembly of as-synthesized shape amphiphiles in solution has been systematically studied. And a novel `caterpillar’ structure has been observed in TEM image.
Stephen Cheng (Advisor)
Toshikazu Miyoshi (Committee Member)
Polymer Chemistry; Polymers

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  • Yang, X. (2017). Synthesis and Self-assembly of Giant Shape Amphiphiles Based on Rod-like Polymers and Precisely Functionalized Fullerenes [Master's thesis, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491576298738033

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Yang, Xing. Synthesis and Self-assembly of Giant Shape Amphiphiles Based on Rod-like Polymers and Precisely Functionalized Fullerenes . 2017. University of Akron, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491576298738033.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Yang, Xing. "Synthesis and Self-assembly of Giant Shape Amphiphiles Based on Rod-like Polymers and Precisely Functionalized Fullerenes ." Master's thesis, University of Akron, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1491576298738033

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