Interfacial behavior of a series of amphiphilic block co-dendrimers.
Amphiphiles with a dendritic structure are attractive materials as they combine the features of dendrimers with the self-assembling properties and interfacial behavior of amphiphiles. We have designed and synthesized three series of segmented amphiphilic block co-dendrimers (Janus-type) and studied their interfacial properties on the Langmuir trough. Various behaviors are observed with, as a rule, the lowest generation dendrimers behaving more or less like traditional amphiphiles while the larger molecules tend to exhibit more complicated isotherms, with a non-straightforward temperature dependence, one particular molecule seemingly forming supramolecular assemblies spontaneously. The results presented here, obtained on a series of molecules where many parameters have been varied systematically, show the limits that should be kept in mind when designing amphiphilic dendrimers.
Bury
Izabela
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Institut de Physique et Chimie des Matériaux de Strasbourg, Groupe des Matériaux Organiques, UMR7504 (CNRS-Université Louis Pasteur), Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
Donnio
Bertrand
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Gallani
Jean-Louis
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Guillon
Daniel
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