title: "Installation art"-like hierarchical self-assembly of giant polymeric elliptical platelets.
abstract: This paper reports the aqueous self-assembly of giant elliptical platelets over 20 μm in axial length, from a novel polyamide. Both the self-assembly pathway and mechanism were studied using morphology and X-ray characterizations. The polymer first self-organizes into small quadrangular frustum pyramid platelets, and then these small platelets can be further installed into giant elliptical platelets through an "installation art"-like hierarchical self-assembly process driven by crystallization. The as-prepared regular giant platelets can further aggregate together into multi-horned or flower-like superstructures.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, PR China. baifengbai@hit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Lei
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, PR China. baifengbai@hit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Zuotao
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Lei
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China. yfzhou@sjtu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Tong
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China. yfzhou@sjtu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yongfeng
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6282-5882
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, PR China. baifengbai@hit.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Yongping
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Bai