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SUBMITTER: Kar H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5975828 | biostudies-other | 2016 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kar Haridas H Gehrig Dominik W DW Allampally Naveen Kumar NK Fernández Gustavo G Laquai Frédéric F Ghosh Suhrit S
Chemical science 20151030 2
A donor-acceptor-donor (D-A-D) type naphthalene-diimide (NDI-H) chromophore exhibits highly cooperative J-aggregation leading to nanotubular self-assembly and gelation in <i>n</i>-decane, as demonstrated by UV/Vis, FT-IR, photoluminescence and microscopy studies. Analysis of temperature-dependent UV/Vis spectra using the nucleation-elongation model and FT-IR data reveals the molecular origin of the cooperative nature of the self-assembly. The supramolecular polymerization is initiated by H-bondi ...[more]