Abstract:
The construction of hierarchical nanostructures with precise morphological and dimensional control has been one of the ultimate goals of contemporary materials science and chemistry, and the emulation of tailor-made nanoscale superstructures realized in the nature, using artificial building blocks, poses outstanding challenges. In this lecture, we present a facile and versatile supramolecular polymerization approach to fabricate nanostructures with precisely-determined dimensions and architectures from liquid crystalline block copolymers.