S-shaped tetrakisporphyrin 2 forms supramolecular polymeric assemblies via a complementary affinity of its bisporphyrin units in solution. The self-association constant determined by applying the isodesmic model is >10(6) L mol(-1), which suggests that a sizable polymer forms at millimolar concentrations at room temperature. The electron deficient aromatic guest (TNF) binds within the molecular...

Models of the structure and properties of liquid mixtures are outlined. The main focus is on quasichemical models for the modeling of supramolecular ordering in mixtures, self-organized by H-bonds, leading to a unified description of their physicochemical properties. Models of polyvariable supramolecular species are discussed with respect to structure and composition of the mixtures, taking int...

The self-assembling tendency and protein complexation capability of dyes related to Congo red and also some dyes of different structure were compared to explain the mechanism of Congo red binding and the reason for its specific affinity for beta-structure. Complexation with proteins was measured directly and expressed as the number of dye molecules bound to heat-aggregated IgG and to two light ...

Polyoxometalates (POMs), a type of giant transition metal oxide clusters on the nanoscale, are emerging as useful materials with unique catalytic, electrooptical, and biological properties. Lanthanide-containing POMs elements show excellent photoluminescent properties with narrow emission bands, large Stokes shift, long lifetime, and tunable emission, i.e., their long emission timescale (microt...

A series of bent-shaped molecules, consisting of dibenzo[a,c]phenazine and phenyl groups connected together as a rod segment, and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) with a degree of polymerization (DP) of 6 as the coil segment, were synthesized. The self-assembling behavior of these molecules by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), thermal optical polarized microscopy (POM), small-angle X-ray scatt...

Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is an autoimmune demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) caused by autoantibodies (NMO-IgG) against the water channel aquaporin-4 (AQP4). Though AQP4 is also expressed outside the CNS, for example in skeletal muscle, patients with NMO generally do not show clinical/diagnostic evidence of skeletal muscle damage. Here, we have evaluated whether AQP4 su...