title: Self-assembly of a pi-electronic amphiphile consisting of a zinc porphyrin-fullerene dyad: formation of micro-vesicles with a high stability.
abstract: An amphiphilic zinc porphyrin-fullerene dyad appended with triethyleneglycol chains in aqueous media forms uniformly-sized multilamellar vesicles with a mean diameter of 100 nm that are thermally stable and robust against membrane lysis with surfactants.
authors.affiliation: ERATO Nanospace Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, c/o National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, 2-41 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan.
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Charvet
authors.forename: Dong-Lin
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Takuzo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Aida