Self-Assembled Systems: A Novel Path for Making

The synthesis these past few years of novel organic molecules that spontaneously 9 self-assemble into a large variety of molecular architecture, particularly generating organogels, has 10 opened up new horizons for preparing functional materials. Here, we present an original 11 preparation path of such materials through the making of hybrid gels of these molecules together 12 with covalent polymers. Three types of systems are described: i) intermingled gels where a polymer 13 gel and an organogel pervade one another; ii) encapsulation of self-assembled filaments in polymer 14 fibrils, which provides a system with unusual magnetic properties; iii) the reverse situation where 15 self-assembled nanotubes sheathe polymer fibrils. Here two covalent polymers are considered: a 16 neutral polymer, namely stereoregular polystyrene (isotactic or syndiotactic), and a semi-conducting 17 polymer, P3BT. In the latter case, semi-conducting nanowires are obtained. 18