Exactly six gear-shaped amphiphiles self-assemble into a highly stable, water-soluble, box-shaped capsule, in which indented hydrophobic surfaces of the components mesh with each other like gears. A water-soluble, tetrahedron-shaped capsule was also constructed from four gear-shaped amphiphiles with a template guest. These findings provide a guideline for creating aggregates with a given number of amphiphiles based on hydrophobic surface engineering. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
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Hiraoka, S., Nakamura, T., Shiro, M., & Shionoya, M. (2010). In-water truly monodisperse aggregation of gear-shaped amphiphiles based on hydrophobic surface engineering. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 132(38), 13223–13225. https://doi.org/10.1021/ja1069135
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