Selected Publications

Here are some selected publications from the Faul research group. All titles link to the articles and open in a new tab.

Oligo(aniline) self-assembly

Z. C. Shao, Z. Yu, J. C. Hu, S. Chandrasekaran, D. M. Lindsay, Z. X. Wei* and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Block-like electroactive oligo(aniline)s: anisotropic structures with anisotropic function‘, J. Mater. Chem., 2012, 22, 16230 – 16234. (Highlighted on the Front Cover.)

T. G. Dane, P. T. Cresswell, O. Bikondoa, G. E. Newby, T. Arnold, C. F. J. Faul* and W. H. Briscoe*, ‘Structured Oligo(aniline) Nanofilms via Ionic Self-Assembly‘, Soft Matter, 2012, 8, 2824-2832. (Highlighted on the Front Cover of Soft Matter and in the 2011 BM28 (ESRF) newsletter.)

C. U. Udeh, N. Fey and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Functional Block-like Structures from Electroactive Tetra(aniline) Oligomers‘, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2011, 21, 18137-18153

Z. Shao, P. Rannou, S. Sadki, N. Fey, D. Lindsay and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Delineating Poly(Aniline) Redox Chemistry using Tailored Oligo(Aryleneamine)s: Towards Oligo(Aniline)-based Organic (Semi)conductors with Tunable (Opto)electronic Properties‘, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2011, 17, 12512-12521

Z. X. Wei and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Aniline oligomers – architecture, function and new opportunities for nanostructured materials‘, Macromolecular Rapid Communications, 2008, 29, 280-292 (invited review, special issue on “Self-Assembly and Hierarchical Structure Formation of Macromolecules”)

Z. X. Wei, T. Laitinen, B. Smarsly, O. Ikkala* and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Self-Assembly and Electrical Conductivity Transitions in Conjugated Oligoaniline-Surfactant Complexes‘, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2005, 44, 751-756

Biomotif-directed assembly

J. S. Haataja, N. Houbenov, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, A. Karatzas, C. F. J. Faul, P. Rannou and O. Ikkala*, ‘Double Smectic Self-Assembly in Block Copolypeptide Complexes‘, Biomacromolecules, 2012, dx.doi.org/10.1021/bm3010275

N. Houbenov*, J. S. Haataja, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, J. Ruokolainen, C. F. J. Faul*, O. Ikkala*, ‘Self-Assembled Polymeric Supramolecular Frameworks‘, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2011, 50, 2516-2520

M. Li, R. J. Oakley, H. Bevan, B.M. Smarsly, S. Mann, C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Nucleotide-based Templates for Nanoparticle Production: Exploiting Multiple Noncovalent Interactions‘, Chemistry of Materials, 2009, 21, 3270-3274

N. Houbenov, A. Nykänen, H. Iatrou, N. Hadjichristidis, J. Ruokolainen, C. F. J. Faul* and O. Ikkala*, ‘Fibrillar Constructs via Multilevel Hierarchical Self-Assembly of Discotic and Calamitic Supramolecular Motifs‘, Advanced Functional Materials, 2008, 18, 2041-2047 (Very Important Paper, highlighted in Wiley’s Materials Views)

B. H. Ozer, B. Smarsly, M. Antonietti and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘DNA-Analogous Structures from Deoxynucleophosphates and Polylysine by Ionic Self-Assembly‘, Soft Matter, 2006, 2, 329-336

Ionic self-assembly with perylene-based materials

J. C. Hu , W. F. Kuang , K. Deng , W. J. Zou , Y. W. Huang ,* Z. X. Wei ,*  C. F. J.  Faul, ‘Self-Assembled Sugar-Substituted Perylene Diimide Nanostructures with Homochirality and High Gas Sensitivity‘, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2012, 22, 4149 – 4158.

Y. Huang, Y. Yan, B. M. Smarsly, Z. X. Wei*, C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Helical Supramolecular Aggregates, Mesoscopic Organisation and Nanofibers of a Perylenebisimide – Chiral Surfactant Complex via Ionic Self-Assembly‘, Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2009, 19, 2356-2362

D. Franke, M. Vos, M. Antonietti, N. A. J. M. Sommerdijk and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Induced Supramolecular Chirality in Nanostructured Materials: Ionic Self-Assembly of Perylene-chiral surfactant complexes‘, Chemistry of Materials, 2006, 18, 1839-1847

Y. Guan, S.-H. Yu, M. Antionietti, C. Böttcher and C. F. J. Faul*, ‘Synthesis of Supramolecular Polymers from Ionic Self-Assembly of Oppositely Charged Dyes‘, Chemistry – A European Journal, 2005, 11, 1305-1311

Y. Zakrevskyy, C. F. J. Faul*, Y. Guan and J. Stumpe, ‘Alignment of a Perylene-Based Ionic Self-Assembly Complex in Thermotropic and Lyotropic Liquid-Crystalline Phases‘, Advanced Functional Materials, 2004, 14, 835-841