Self-Assembly of a Tetrapodal Adamantane with Carbazole Branches into Hollow Spherical Aggregates in Organic Media

A hydrophobic
tetrapodal molecule is composed of carbazole units
at the periphery linked by a phenyl spacer on an adamantane core.
Tetrapodal adamantane self-assembles into hollow spherical aggregates
with a multilayer membrane in organic media. The spherical assembly
size is dependent on the organic solvent used. Hollow spheres can
entrap guest molecules within their internal spaces. By increasing
the concentrations of tetrapodal molecules, hollow spheres fused into
necklace-shaped nanostructures and two-dimensional networks were obtained.