Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

A molecular assembler that produces polymers

  • Anthonius H. J. Engwerda,
  • Stephen P. Fletcher

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17814-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The feasibility of molecular assemblers as a device to control chemical reactions by positioning molecules with atomic precision is a matter of debate in the literature. Here the authors describe of a rudimentary synthetic molecular assembler, supramolecular aggregate of bifunctional surfactants produced by the reaction of two phase-separated reactants that produces polymers.