Aromatic micelles: toward a third-generation of micelles

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  • YOSHIZAWA Michito
    Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • CATTI Lorenzo
    Laboratory for Chemistry and Life Science, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology

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<p>Micelles are useful and widely applied molecular assemblies, formed from amphiphilic molecules, in water. The majority of amphiphiles possess an alkyl chain as the hydrophobic part. Amphiphiles bearing hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymer chains generate so-called polymeric micelles in water. This review focuses on the recent progress of “aromatic micelles”, formed from bent polyaromatic/aromatic amphiphiles, for the development of third-generation micelles. Thanks to multiple host-guest interactions, e.g., the hydrophobic effect and π-π/CH-π interactions, the present micelles display wide-ranging uptake abilities toward various hydrophobic compounds in water. In addition to such host functions, new stimuli-responsive aromatic micelles with pH, light, and redox switches, aromatic oligomer micelles, saccharide-coated aromatic micelles, and related cycloalkane-based micelles were recently developed by our group.</p>

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