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Body-centred cubic packing of spheres - the ultimate thermotropic assembly mode for highly divergent dendrons

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Nanoscale Horiz., 2017, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C6NH00155F, Communication
Xiaohong Yao, Liliana Cseh, Xiangbing Zeng, Min Xue, Yongsong Liu, Goran Ungar
Na salts of benzoic acid carrying five long alkoxy chains ("hyperbranched" AB5 minidendrons) self-assemble into spheres which shrink to half their size on heating and display chain back-folding, obeying the predictions of the proposed geometrical model of self-assembly of taper-shaped molecules.
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