Oligothiophene Dendrimers as New Building Blocks for Optical Applications

PAMAM Dendrimers as Quantized Building Blocks for Novel Nanostructures.

The desire to synthesize soft supramolecular structures with size scales similar to biological systems has led to work in assembly of polymeric nanomaterials. Recent advances in the isolation of generationally homogenous poly(amidoamine) (PAMAM) dendrimer enables their use as quantized building blocks. Here, we report their assembly into precise nanoclusters. In this work, click-functional liga...

Birth of a New Macromolecular Architecture: Dendrimers as Quantized Building Blocks for Nanoscale Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Superatoms as Building Blocks of New Materials

During the last couple of decades or so, the subject of nanoscale science began expanding into a unique field of science that offered the prospect of tailoring the design of materials having chosen properties. Two potentially promising approaches were conceived, one involving a bottom up approach while the other a top down method. In both cases, approaching the desirable nanoscale size regime w...

Dendrimers and Dendrons as Versatile Building Blocks for the Fabrication of Functional Hydrogels.

Hydrogels have emerged as a versatile class of polymeric materials with a wide range of applications in biomedical sciences. The judicious choice of hydrogel precursors allows one to introduce the necessary attributes to these materials that dictate their performance towards intended applications. Traditionally, hydrogels were fabricated using either polymerization of monomers or through crossl...

Building blocks for nonpolarizing optical coatings.

The problem of designing nonpolarizing beam splitters with as broad a spectral band as practical has not been clearly understood. The effort of the work reported here has been to glean understanding from the various results of a contest for such designs and further studies of what might be the underlying principles and behaviors that are involved in such designs. A few key layer patterns have b...