两亲性多肽自组装及其应用

两亲性多肽分子具有类似天然磷脂分子的两亲特性、丰富的分子结构、独特新颖的组装体结构以及特殊的生物学功能,是多肽自组装研究的热点领域.本文总结了近年来关于两亲性多肽自组装研究及应用的进展,介绍了几种常见的两亲性多肽,并进一步阐述其分子结构特征、组装行为和机理、组装体结构和功能以及在纳米技术和生物医学领域中的应用.     

两亲性共轭高分子聚(对亚苯基丁二炔)的合成与二维自组装

设计、合成了两亲性线型共轭聚合物聚(对亚苯基丁二炔)(A-PPB),研究了它在溶液中的二维自组装行为.首先合成了A-PPB的前驱体聚合物PPB,利用核磁氢谱(1H-NMR)、傅里叶红外光谱(FTIR)和拉曼光谱对聚合物的结构及分子量进行了表征.然后通过水解反应,获得了两亲性共轭聚合物A-PPB,并考察了它在水、甲醇以及甲醇/甲苯混合溶剂中的自组装行为.透射电子显微镜(TEM)的测试结果表明,A-PPB在水溶液中自组装形成了二维超分子纳米片(2D-SNS),尺寸达几微米;用原子力显微镜(AFM)测得2D-SNS的厚度为5 nm左右,由不超过3层的二维超分子聚合物层堆积而成.高分辨透射电子显微镜(HRTEM)、选区电子衍射(SAED)及X-射线衍射(XRD)的测试结果表明,2D-SNS是由A-PPB分子链平行堆积而成.在甲醇溶剂中,A-PPB形成了无规聚集体,而在甲醇/甲苯混合溶剂中则自组装形成了多层堆积的二维超分子纳米片.对比研究表明,非亲水的PPB在氯仿/甲醇混合溶剂中形成的是较厚的层状聚集体.还发现聚合物的链长对于自组装形成二维超分子片层也会有影响,当用数均聚合度为8的两亲性低聚(对亚苯基丁二炔)(A-OPB)在水溶液中进行自组装时,只能形成尺寸较小的无规聚集体.由此可见,聚合物的两亲性、电荷排斥作用以及聚合物链长等因素都会对共轭聚合物的二维自组装行为产生重要影响.     

两亲性嵌段共聚物的合成及其在离子液体中的自组装行为

采用阴离子开环聚合法合成了两亲性嵌段共聚物PLA-PEG-PLA.用FT-IR,1H NMR和GPC等手段对嵌段共聚物的结构组成进行了表征.两亲性嵌段共聚物在离子液体1-丁基-3-甲基咪唑六氟磷酸盐中能自组装成胶束,用透射电子显微镜观察了聚合物在离子液体中形成胶束的纳米结构.当疏水链长固定时,胶束的自组装形状主要依赖于亲水链的长度.两亲性共聚物在离子液体中可自组装成可控制结构的纳米胶束,这种纳米结构胶束在很多领域具有广泛的应用前景.     

用“超分子板块构筑法”制备有机/无机组装体发光材料

一般说来,高分子材料可以由小分子单体通过化学键结合而成[1],也可以通过非化学键的所谓超分子组装而成[2～4].后者是近年来高分子合成中十分活跃的领域.我们尝试将上述两种方法相结合来设计合成高分子功能材料,利用超分子化学法在设计功能性基团方面的便利性[2,5]和经典化学法在成键方面的有效性,提出了用"超分子结构单元"构筑高分子的方法.     

苯丙氨酸二肽类分子自组装:分子设计、结构调控与材料应用

近年来,苯丙氨酸二肽类分子的自组装研究受到了广泛关注,已成为超分子化学、生物材料科学研究的前沿领域之一。苯丙氨酸二肽类纳米组装体因具有结构多样、易功能化以及良好的生物相容性等优点,在纳米制造、组织修复等方面展示出巨大的应用潜力。本文从分子设计、组装结构调控与材料应用三个层次系统综述了苯丙氨酸二肽类分子自组装的研究进展。首先总结了苯丙氨酸二肽类分子的修饰改性,包括乙酰基、芳香环、氨基酸、短肽等基团。然后,重点介绍了苯丙氨酸二肽类分子自组装的调控策略和方法,如溶剂、界面、气相、多组分共组装和酶催化组装。最后,介绍了苯丙氨酸二肽类自组装材料在纳米材料合成、传感检测、药物传递及组织修复等方面的应用现状,并分析了该领域今后的发展方向。     

超两亲分子:可控组装与解组装

与基于共价键的两亲性分子相对照,超两亲分子系指基于非共价键构筑的两亲分子.基于超分子体系的分子工程学的思想,本文总结了超两亲分子的各种类型,包括小分子型、聚合物型和响应性超两亲分子等,以及组装超两亲分子的各种推动力,如主客体相互作用、基于电荷转移作用和不同分子间的协同作用等.研究表明,超两亲分子的研究既可丰富传统的胶体界面化学,又为高级结构的可控组装提供了新的构筑基元,并为制备功能超分子材料开拓了新的途径.     

超分子聚集体构筑单元的分子设计及其自组装研究进展

超分子聚集体因有着丰富的形貌和多样化的功能,并具有良好的可调控性,而备受广大超分子科学家的关注。不同结构的超分子聚集体在新材料开发、药物传输、生物成像和医疗卫生等领域均有着极其重要的研究价值和应用前景。基于在不同领域中超分子聚集体的应用特点,其自组装构筑单元的设计方法也有着诸多的选择,如何高效地设计并制备有价值的超分子体系构筑单元已经成为超分子化学研究的一个重要课题。基于超分子聚集体自组装过程的影响因素,对超分子聚集体构筑单元的主要设计方法和思路进行了总结和分析,为后续不同体系超分子聚集体构筑单元的设计及其自组装过程的相关研究提供重要的参考。     

具有纳米孔洞的金属-有机超分子聚合物与功能材料

本文介绍了近几年来一个热门的研究领域－纳米超分子笼和具有纳米孔洞的金属－有机聚合物的研究现状和发展趋势。目前该领域的研究主要集中在：设计合成有机桥联配体并与金属离子自组装成各类具有纳米孔洞的超分子化合物和一维、二维或三维的金属－有机聚合物,应用结构化学研究手段,研究它们的自组装规律、空间结构、电子结构及其物理化学性能,寻找这两类化合物在生物工程与功能材料等领域中的应用。     

双亲嵌段共聚物自组装特性的计算机模拟

双亲嵌段共聚物在不同体系下会自组装成各种形貌的超分子聚集体,是目前人们研究的热点,并在工业领域得到了广泛应用。计算机模拟是研究其自组装特性机理及聚集体结构、动态性质的有效工具。本文对近年来嵌段共聚物自组装特性的热力学模型和动力学模拟的研究进展进行了综述,分析了其中存在的问题并进行了展望。     

具有纳米孔洞的金属-有机超分子聚合物与功能材料

本文介绍了近几年来一个热门的研究领域-纳米超分子笼和具有纳米孔洞的金属-有机聚合物的研究现状和发展趋势。目前该领域的研究主要集中在:设计合成有机桥联配体并与金属离子自组装成各类具有纳米孔洞的超分子化合物和一维、二维或三维的金属-有机聚合物,应用结构化学研究手段,研究它们的自组装规律、空间结构、电子结构及其物理化学性能,寻找这两类化合物在生物工程与功能材料等领域中的应用。     

Aqueous self-assembly of aromatic rod building blocks

One of the most fascinating subjects in areas such as nanoscience and biomimetic chemistry is concerned with the construction of novel supramolecular nanoscopic architectures with well defined shapes and functions. Supramolecular assemblies of aromatic rod molecules provide a facile entry into this area. Aromatic rigid rod molecules consisting of hydrophilic flexible chains, in aqueous solution can self-assemble into a variety of supramolecular structures through mutual interactions between aromatic rod molecules and water, including hydrophobic and hydrophilic interactions and pi-pi interaction. The supramolecular architecture in water can be manipulated by variation of the shape of the rigid segments, as well as the relative volume fraction of the flexible segment. The rigid aromatic segments have significant photonic and electronic properties. The self-assembly of aromatic rod molecules in water, therefore, can provide a strategy for the construction of well-defined and stable nanometer-size structures with chemical functionalities and physical properties as advanced materials for photonic, electronic and biological applications.     

Progress in the direct structural characterization of fibrous amphiphilic supramolecular assemblies in solution by transmission electron microscopic techniques

The self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules into fibrous structures has been the subject of numerous studies over past decades due to various current and promising technical applications. Although very different in their head group chemistry many natural as well as synthetic amphiphilic compounds derived from carbohydrates, carbocyanine dyes, or amino acids tend to form fibrous structures by molecular self-assembly in water predominantly twisted ribbons or tubes. Often a transition between these assembly structures is observed, which is a phenomenon already theoretically approached by Wolfgang Helfrich and still focus point in current research. With the development of suitable sample preparation and electron optical imaging techniques, cryogenic transmission electron microscopy (cryo-TEM) in combination with three-dimensional (3D) reconstruction techniques has become a particular popular direct characterization technique for supramolecular assemblies in general. Here we review the recent progress in deriving precise structural information from cryo-TEM data of particularly fibrous structures preferably in three dimensions.     

Assembling of amphiphilic highly branched molecules in supramolecular nanofibers

We found that the amplification of weak multiple interactions between numerous peripheral branches of irregular, flexible, polydisperse, and highly branched molecules can facilitate their self-assembly into nanofibrillar micellar structures at solid surfaces and the formation of perfect long microfibers in the course of crystallization from solution. The core-shell architecture of the amphiphilic dendritic molecules provides exceptional stability of one-dimensional nanofibrillar structures. The critical condition for the formation of the nanofibrillar structures is the presence of both alkyl tails in the outer shell and amine groups in the core/inner shell. The multiple intermolecular hydrogen bonding and polar interactions between flexible cores stabilize these nanofibers and make them robust albeit flexible. This example demonstrates that one-dimensional supramolecular assembling at different spatial scales (both nanofibers and microfibers) can be achieved without a tedious, multistep synthesis of shape-persistent molecules.     

The molecular basis of self-assembly of dendron-rod-coils into one-dimensional nanostructures

We describe here a comprehensive study of solution and solid-state properties of self-assembling triblock molecules composed of a hydrophilic dendron covalently linked to an aromatic rigid rod segment, which is in turn connected to a hydrophobic flexible coil. These dendron-rod-coil (DRC) molecules form well-defined supramolecular structures that possess a ribbonlike morphology as revealed by transmission-electron and atomic-force microscopy. In a large variety of aprotic solvents, the DRC ribbons create stable networks that form gels at concentrations as low as 0.2% by weight DRC. The gels are thermally irreversible and do not melt at elevated temperatures, indicating high stability as a result of strong noncovalent interactions among DRC molecules. NMR experiments show that the strong interactions leading to aggregation involve mainly the dendron and rodlike blocks, whereas oligoisoprene coil segments remain solvated after gelation. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) profiles of different DRC molecules demonstrate an excellent correlation between the degree-of-order in the solid-state and the stability of gels. Studies on two series of analogous molecules suggest that self-assembly is very sensitive to subtle structural changes and requires the presence of at least four hydroxyl groups in the dendron, two biphenyl units in the rod, and a coil segment with a size comparable to that of the rodlike block. A detailed analysis of crystal structures of model compounds revealed the formation of stable one-dimensional structures that involve two types of noncovalent interactions, aromatic pi-pi stacking and hydrogen bonding. Most importantly, the crystal structure of the rod-dendron compound shows that hydrogen bonding not only drives the formation of head-to-head cyclic structures, but also generates multiple linkages between them along the stacking direction. The cyclic structures are tetrameric in nature and stack into ribbonlike objects. We believe that DRC molecules utilize the same arrangement of hydrogen bonds and stacking of aromatic blocks observed in the crystals, explaining the exceptional stability of the nanostructures in extremely dilute solutions as well the thermal stability of the gels they form. This study provides mechanistic insights on self-assembly of triblock molecules, and unveils general strategies to create well-defined one-dimensional supramolecular objects.     

氮杂芳基三脚架配体及其金属超分子化合物

氮杂芳基三脚架配体可分为柔性和刚性两种，它们均有三个或三个以上的配位点，配体中配位点数目和位置的改变都会对金属超分子配合物的结构产生很大的影响。本文简单介绍了氮杂芳基三脚架配体自组装的特点及其所生成的超分子化合物的主要结构类型。     

Supramolecular polymeric micelles by the host-guest interaction of star-like calix[4]arene and chlorin e6 for photodynamic therapy

A supramolecular drug delivery system has been developed via the self-assembly of a supramolecular amphiphilic polymer, which is constructed by the host-guest interaction of hydrophilic PEGylated calix[4]arene and hydrophobic photosensitizer chlorin e6. It provides a new strategy for the preparation of supramolecular polymeric micelles, and plays an important role in biological applications.     

Host-guest supramolecular chemistry at solid-liquid interface: An important strategy for preparing two-dimensional functional nanostructures

Supramolecular self-assembly,an important strategy in nanotechnology,has been widely studied in the past two decades.In this review,we have introduced the recent progress on construction of two-dimensional(2D)nanostructures by host-guest supramolecular chemistry at solid-liquid interface,and the interactions between the host assembly and the guest molecules are the major concerns.At first,the hydrogen bonds connected hybrid structures are discussed.And then we have paid a close attention on the surface-confined condensation reactions that has flourished recently in direct preparing novel nanostructures with increasing structural complexity.In the end,the cavity confinement of the 2D supramolecular host-guest architectures has been studied.On the basis of the above-mentioned interactions,a group of functional hybrid structures have been prepared.Notably,scanning tunneling microscopy(STM),a unique technique to probe the surface morphology and information at the single molecule level,has been used to probe the formed structures on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite(HOPG)surface.     

Supramolecular reactor from self-assembly of rod-coil molecule in aqueous environment

We synthesized an amphiphilic coil-rod-coil triblock molecule consisting of hexa-p-phenylene as a rod block and poly(ethylene oxide) with the number of repeating units of 17 as coil blocks and investigated aggregation behavior in aqueous environment. The rod-coil molecule was observed to aggregate into discrete micelles consisting of hydrophobic disklike rod bundles encapsulated by hydrophilic poly(ethylene oxide) coils. The aromatic bundles of the micelles were demonstrated to be used as an efficient supramolecular reactor for the room temperature Suzuki cross-coupling reaction of a wide range of aryl halides, including even aryl chlorides with phenylboronic acids in aqueous environment. These results demonstrate that self-assembly of amphiphilic rod-coil molecules can provide a useful strategy to construct an efficient supramolecular reactor for aromatic coupling reaction.     

Synthesis and self-assembly of oligomers containing cruciform 9,10-bis(arylethynyl)anthracene unit: formation of supramolecular nanostructures based on rod-length-dependent organization

Conjugated rod-coil molecules, incorporating flexible and rigid blocks, have a strong affinity to self-organize into various supramolecular nanostructures in the bulk state.In this study, we report synthesized oligomers containing cruciform 9,10-bis(arylethynyl)anthracene units and characterized their self-assembly behavior. The molecular structures were characterized with ¹H, ¹³C NMR, and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectroscopy. An investigation of the supramolecular nanostructures of these molecules using differential scanning calorimetry, thermal polarized optical microscopy, and small-angle X-ray scattering revealed that the rod length of coil-rod-coil molecules with identical rod to coil volume ratios dramatically influences self-assembly behavior in the bulk state. Molecules 2 and 3 with relatively longer rod lengths self-assemble into lamellar structures in the solid state, whereas, molecules 1 and 4 self-assemble into two-dimensional (2-D) oblique columnar structures in the liquid crystalline phase, in addition, on heating, molecule 1 transforms from the oblique columnar phase to the nematic phase.     

Supramolecular self-assembly of block copolymer based on rigid surfactant

The supramolecular self-assembling of pyridine-containing amphiphilic block copolymers (PS-b- P4VP and PS-PI-P2VP) and 4-biphenylcarboxylic acid (BPCA) in selective solvents has been systematically studied. BPCA molecules are able to complex with the vinylpyridine (VP) moieties through hydrogen bonding, which leads to a transformation of spherical block copolymer micelles into structured nanofibers in solutions. The effects of molar ratio of BPCA to the VP repeat units, solvent selectivity, and copolymer composition on the supramolecular complex nanofiber formation have been systematically investigated by atomic force microscopy (AFM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The formation mechanism of supramolecular self-assembly nanofibers was discussed.