Light-fueled transient supramolecular assemblies in water as fluorescence modulators

• Published in: Nature communications Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 4993 - 8
• Main Authors: Chen, Xu-Man, Hou, Xiao-Fang, Bisoyi, Hari Krishna, Feng, Wei-Jie, Cao, Qin, Huang, Shuai, Yang, Hong, Chen, Dongzhong, Li, Quan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 17.08.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 14/34; 639/166/898; 639/301/357/341; 639/638/541/966; 639/925/357/341; Agglomeration; Assemblies; Chemical compounds; Chitosan; Fluorescence; Fluorophores; Fuels; Humanities and Social Sciences; Irradiation; Light; Light irradiation; Liver cancer; Macromolecules; Modulators; Molecular machines; multidisciplinary; Nanoparticles; Periodic variations; Radiation; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Self-assembly; Thermal dissociation

Dissipative self-assembly, which requires a continuous supply of fuel to maintain the assembled states far from equilibrium, is the foundation of biological systems. Among a variety of fuels, light, the original fuel of natural dissipative self-assembly, is fundamentally important but remains a chal...