Doni, Giovanni and Kostiainen, Mauri A and Danani, Andrea and Pavan, Giovanni Maria (2010) Generation-Dependent Molecular Recognition Controls Self-Assembly in Supramolecular Dendron- Virus Complexes. Nano letters, 11 (2). pp. 723-728. ISSN 1530-6984
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In this work molecular dynamics simulation identifies a clear link between the dendron−virus multivalent molecular recognition and the nature of the consequent self-assembly. Data demonstrate how a weak hydrophobic association is transformed in an electrostatic self-assembly, orders of magnitude stronger, depending on the dendron generation used to assemble the viruses. This opens a new frontier in the engineering of hierarchical self-assemblies, potentially enabling the control of the supramolecular properties by acting at the single-molecule level.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | dendrons; hierarchical complexes; intermolecular interactions; molecular modeling; Molecular recognition; self-assembly |
| Subjects: | Physical sciences > Physics > Computational physics |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento tecnologie innovative > Istituto CIM per la sostenibilità nell'innovazione |
| Depositing User: | Andrea Danani |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2015 13:53 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Jul 2016 09:22 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/6218 |
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