Scientists in China have designed and synthesized copolymer as the host and adamantyl fullerene as the guest to construct a host-guest supramolecular complex
Their work shows that the morphology of assemblies formed by the supramolecular complex can alter reversibly from vesicles to nano-spheres by the change of temperature in aqueous solution.
Due to the C60 moiety, the supramolecular complex shows excellent ability to scavenge hydroxyl radicals of biological system.
Thus, the combination of these two effects leads to the possibility of modulating the antioxidative properties of the supramolecular complex via the temperature.
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Haoyu Wang, Liang Wang, Xiaoguang Wang, Jiayun Xu, Quan Luo and Junqiu Liu New J. Chem., 2011, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C1NJ20568D, Paper
