This research demonstrated that one can control the aggregation mode, the order, and the morphology of the molecular aggregates by changing the number of alkyl chains.
Nature has inspired an efficient way to synthesize large molecular aggregates: self-assembly.
The scFvs displayed an ability to form higher molecular aggregates in vivo.
R. Tempelaar, A. Stradomska, J. Knoester, and F.C. Spano, Circularly polarized luminescence as a probe for long-range interactions in molecular aggregates.
With increasing asphaltene content, more and more complex molecular aggregates are formed.
Our results indicate the presence of a structure consisting of molecular aggregates.
When expressed in COS1 cells or PAZ6 adipocytes, cysteine mutants also show impaired secretion and formation of large molecular aggregates.
Typical probe molecules are heme-like dyes, aromatic amino acids, but also extended molecular aggregates in light harvesting complexes.
Amphipathic lipids exhibit a unique behaviour in water: they spontaneously form ordered molecular aggregates, with their hydrophilic ends on the outside, in contact with the water, and their hydrophobic parts on the inside, shielded from the water.
Upon cooling lyotropic alignment of molecular aggregates is observed at low polymer concentrations, typically 2 5 wt%.
If amphiphilic molecules were present in the mixture of organic compounds available on the early Earth, it is not difficult to imagine that their self-assembly into molecular aggregates was a common process.
