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Alkyl-aromatic hybrid micelles formed from emergent umbrella-shaped molecules - EurekAlert
<p><strong>Micelles are among the most widely employed molecular assemblies, with their features being governed by the subunit molecules, composed of hydrophobic and hydrophilic frameworks. So far, the design principle for the hydrophobic part of the subunits has been mostly focused on either linear alkyl chains or bent aromatic units. Now, a team at Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) has developed unique alkyl-aromatic hybrid micelles displaying significantly higher performance in terms of assembly stability as well as guest binding, compared to previous alkyl micelles as well as aromatic micelles. Importantly, the uptake of large cyclic molecules yielded interpenetrated ring-structures with strong green emission in water. </strong></p>
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