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.

Bianchi, E., Capone, B., Coluzza, I., Rovigatti, L., Van Oostrum, P.D.J. (2017). Limiting the valence: Advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 19(30), 19847-19868 [10.1039/c7cp03149a].

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

Capone B.;
2017-01-01

Abstract

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.
2017
Bianchi, E., Capone, B., Coluzza, I., Rovigatti, L., Van Oostrum, P.D.J. (2017). Limiting the valence: Advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules. PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS, 19(30), 19847-19868 [10.1039/c7cp03149a].
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