Journal article
Sound-driven dissipative self-assembly of aromatic biomolecules into functional nanoparticles
Sukhvir Kaur Bhangu, Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Muthupandian Ashokkumar, Francesca Cavalieri
Nanoscale Horizons | Royal Society of Chemistry | Published : 2020
DOI: 10.1039/c9nh00611g
Abstract
Dissipative self-assembly processes were recently exploited to assemble synthetic materials into supramolecular structures. In most cases, chemical fuel or light driven self-assembly of synthetic molecules was reported. Herein, experimental and computational approaches were used to unveil the role of acoustic cavitation in the formation of supramolecular nanoaggregates by dissipative self-assembly. Acoustic cavitation bubbles were employed as an energy source and a transient interface to fuel and refuel the dissipative self-assembly of simple aromatic biomolecules into uniform nanoparticles. Molecular dynamics simulations were applied to predict the formation of metastable aggregates and the..
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Awarded by European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant
Funding Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) under a Future Fellowship (F. Cavalieri, FT140100873) and the University of Melbourne Establishment Grant (F. Cavalieri). This work received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skodowska-Curie grant agreement no. 690901 (NANOSUPREMI). This work was performed in part at the Materials Characterization and Fabrication Platform (MCFP) at The University of Melbourne. We acknowledge the University of Melbourne for their support through an MRS scholarship and a Norma Hilda Schuster Scholarship (S. K. Bhangu). We also thank the CINECA consortium for providing computational resources. Special thanks to Mr Yang Shen for his contribution to bubble dynamics studies.