Sao Soumik, Mukherjee Ishita, De Priyadarsi, Chaudhuri Debangshu
Department of Chemical Sciences and Centre for Advanced Functional Materials (CAFM), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata, Mohanpur 741246, India.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2017 Apr 4;53(28):3994-3997. doi: 10.1039/c7cc00554g.
Molecular assembly of weakly pi-stacking core-substituted naphthalene diimides (cNDIs) requires the participation of strong side-group interactions. Spatial confinement within a micellar core leads to locally elevated concentrations and reduced entropy that drives a rapid aggregation, often followed by a slower aggregate reorganization. Fast aggregation kinetics leads to self-sorting of aggregates.