Terpenoids, nano-entities and molecular self-assembly
| Autor: | Soumen Patra, Sk Nurul Hasan, Abir Chandan Barai, Saikat Kumar Panja, Subrata Ghorai, Braja Gopal Bag |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
| Předmět: |
Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering fungi technology industry and agriculture Nanotechnology macromolecular substances 02 engineering and technology General Chemistry 010402 general chemistry 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Terpenoid 0104 chemical sciences Nano Molecular self-assembly Self-assembly 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Pure and Applied Chemistry. 92:567-577 |
| ISSN: | 1365-3075 0033-4545 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/pac-2019-0812 |
| Popis: | Plant metabolites being renewable in nature have tremendous significance for the development of a sustainable society. In this manuscript we show that, terpenoids having nanometric lengths, commonly having several functional groups and several centers of chirality, can be utilized as renewable Molecular Functional Nanos (MFNs). The terpenoids spontaneously self-assembled in liquids yielding different morphologies such as vesicles, tubes, flowers, petals and fibers of nano- to micro-meter dimensions and supramolecular gels. The self-assemblies were utilized for the entrapment and release of fluorophores including anticancer drug, pollutant capture, generation of hybrid materials and catalysis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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