Limiting the valence: advancements and new perspectives on patchy colloids, soft functionalized nanoparticles and biomolecules
- Author(s)
- Emanuela Bianchi, Barbara Capone, Ivan Coluzza, Lorenzo Rovigatti, Peter D. J. van Oostrum
- Abstract
Limited bonding valence, usually accompanied by well-defined directional interactions and selective bonding mechanisms, is nowadays considered among the key ingredients to create complex structures with tailored properties: even though isotropically interacting units already guarantee access to a vast range of functional materials, anisotropic interactions can provide extra instructions to steer the assembly of specific architectures. The anisotropy of effective interactions gives rise to a wealth of self-assembled structures both in the realm of suitably synthesized nano- and micro-sized building blocks and in nature, where the isotropy of interactions is often a zero-th order description of the complicated reality. In this review, we span a vast range of systems characterized by limited bonding valence, from patchy colloids of new generation to polymer-based functionalized nanoparticles, DNA-based systems and proteins, and describe how the interaction patterns of the single building blocks can be designed to tailor the properties of the target final structures.
- Organisation(s)
- Computational and Soft Matter Physics
- External organisation(s)
- Technische Universität Wien, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, University of Oxford, Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
- Journal
- Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
- Volume
- 19
- Pages
- 19847-19868
- No. of pages
- 22
- ISSN
- 1463-9076
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1039/c7cp03149a
- Publication date
- 08-2017
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103015 Condensed matter
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Physics and Astronomy(all), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/limiting-the-valence-advancements-and-new-perspectives-on-patchy-colloids-soft-functionalized-nanoparticles-and-biomolecules(0377ef37-e0e4-4053-ba98-96475d23df62).html