title: Hierarchical molecular self-assemblies: construction and advantages.
abstract: Hierarchical molecular self-assembly offers many exotic and complicated nanostructures which are of interest in nanotechnology and material science. In the past decade, various strategies leading to hierarchical molecular self-assemblies have been developed. In this review we summarize the recent advances in the creation and application of solution-based self-assembled nanostructures that involve more than one level of arrangement of building blocks. The strategies for construction hierarchical self-assembled structures and the advantages brought up by these assemblies are focused on. The following contents are included: (1) general approaches to fabricate hierarchical self-assembly, including self-assemblies based on supramolecules and specially designed block copolymers; (2) the advantages brought about by the hierarchical self-assembly, including the fabrication of special self-assembled structures, rich responsiveness to external stimuli, and the materials' performance.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Chengfu Road 202, Beijing, 100871, China. yunyan@pku.edu.cn jbhuang@pku.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Andong
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Jianbin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Yun
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yan