title: Slothful gelation of a dipolar building block by "top-down" morphology transition from microparticles to nanofibres.
abstract: An amide-functionalized dipolar building block showed spontaneous self-assembly to micro-particles predominately by H-bonding. Possibly due to inefficient dipolar interaction, it gradually adopted an alternate mode of assembly by anti-parallel dimerization and H-bonding in orthogonal directions leading to a strikingly different nano-fibrillar morphology resulting in unusually slow gelation after 80 h.
authors.affiliation: Polymer Science Unit, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A and 2B Raja S. C. Mullick Rd, Kolkata, 700032, India.
authors.forename: Anindita
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Das
authors.forename: Bholanath
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Maity
authors.forename: Debasis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Koley
authors.forename: Suhrit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ghosh