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Phases full of fullerenes

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Self-assembled amphiphiles are more common in the realm of aqueous systems than in organic solvents. Their scope has now been expanded with the advent of 'hydrophobic amphiphiles' of π-conjugated–alkyl systems, which show various self-assembled phases similar to classical amphiphiles.

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Figure 1: Self-assembly of fullerene-derived hydrophobic amphiphiles at different concentrations.

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  1. Albert P. H. J. Schenning is at the Laboratory of Functional Organic Materials and Devices, and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands,

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  2. Subi J. George is at the New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore-560064, India,

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Schenning, A., George, S. Phases full of fullerenes. Nature Chem 6, 658–659 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchem.2013

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