Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Sep 29;132(38):13223-5. doi: 10.1021/ja1069135.
Exactly six gear-shaped amphiphiles self-assemble into a highly stable, water-soluble, box-shaped capsule, in which indented hydrophobic surfaces of the components mesh with each other like gears. A water-soluble, tetrahedron-shaped capsule was also constructed from four gear-shaped amphiphiles with a template guest. These findings provide a guideline for creating aggregates with a given number of amphiphiles based on hydrophobic surface engineering.
恰好有六个齿轮状两亲分子自组装成一个高度稳定、水溶性的盒状胶囊，其中组件的凹形疏水面彼此啮合，就像齿轮一样。还使用四个具有模板客体的齿轮状两亲分子构建了一个水溶性的四面体胶囊。这些发现为基于疏水面工程创建具有给定数量两亲分子的聚集体提供了指导。
