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Mihai Peterca is affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science and chemistry, with notable contributions in biomaterials, organic chemistry, and polymers and plastics. The scientist's work spans a range of interdisciplinary subfields, including molecular biology and materials chemistry.

Their research topics encompass various aspects of polymer science and supramolecular chemistry. Key subjects include:

  • Supramolecular self-assembly in materials
  • Dendrimers and hyperbranched polymers
  • Polydiacetylene-based materials and applications
  • Advanced polymer synthesis and characterization
  • Luminescence and fluorescent materials
  • Liquid crystal research advancements
  • Synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds

Mihai Peterca has published extensively in several scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Giant
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Pharmaceutics
  • Journal of Materials Chemistry B
  • Molecular Physics

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Monodisperse Macromolecules by Self-Interrupted Living Polymerization," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Supramolecular spheres assembled from covalent and supramolecular dendritic crowns dictate the supramolecular orientational memory effect mediated by Frank-Kasper phases," 2020, Giant
  • "An Accelerated Modular-Orthogonal Ni-Catalyzed Methodology to Symmetric and Nonsymmetric Constitutional Isomeric AB2 to AB9 Dendrons Exhibiting Unprecedented Self-Organizing Principles," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Screening Libraries to Discover Molecular Design Principles for the Targeted Delivery of mRNA with One-Component Ionizable Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers Derived from Plant Phenolic Acids," 2023, Pharmaceutics
  • "Self-organization of rectangular bipyramidal helical columns by supramolecular orientational memory epitaxially nucleated from a Frank-Kasper σ phase," 2021, Giant

Collaborations have been a significant part of their research. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Virgil Percec
  • Dipankar Sahoo
  • Qi Xiao
  • Mohammad R. Imam
  • Benjamin E. Partridge

Best Publications

  • Dendron-Mediated Self-Assembly, Disassembly, and Self-Organization of Complex Systems

    Brad M. Rosen;Christopher J. Wilson;Daniela A. Wilson;Mihai Peterca

  • Self-assembly of amphiphilic dendritic dipeptides into helical pores

    Virgil Percec;Andrés E. Dulcey;Venkatachalapathy S. K. Balagurusamy;Yoshiko Miura

  • Modular Synthesis of Amphiphilic Janus Glycodendrimers and Their Self-Assembly into Glycodendrimersomes and Other Complex Architectures with Bioactivity to Biomedically Relevant Lectins

    Virgil Percec;Pawaret Leowanawat;Hao Jan Sun;Oleg Kulikov

  • Thermoreversible cis-cisoidal to cis-transoidal isomerization of helical dendronized polyphenylacetylenes.

    Virgil Percec;Jonathan G Rudick;Mihai Peterca;Martin Wagner

  • Predicting the structure of supramolecular dendrimers via the analysis of libraries of AB3 and constitutional isomeric AB2 biphenylpropyl ether self-assembling dendrons.

    Brad M. Rosen;Daniela A. Wilson;Christopher J. Wilson;Mihai Peterca

  • Nanomechanical function from self-organizable dendronized helical polyphenylacetylenes.

    Virgil Percec;Jonathan G. Rudick;Mihai Peterca;Paul A. Heiney

  • Self-Assembly of Dendronized Triphenylenes into Helical Pyramidal Columns and Chiral Spheres

    Virgil Percec;Mohammad R. Imam;Mihai Peterca;Daniela A. Wilson

  • Synthesis and retrostructural analysis of libraries of AB3 and constitutional isomeric AB2 phenylpropyl ether-based supramolecular dendrimers.

    Virgil Percec;Mihai Peterca;Monika J Sienkowska;Marc A Ilies

  • Selective transport of water mediated by porous dendritic dipeptides.

    Mark S. Kaucher;Mihai Peterca;Andrés E. Dulcey;Anthony J. Kim

  • Self-Assembly of Semifluorinated Janus-Dendritic Benzamides into Bilayered Pyramidal Columns

    Virgil Percec;Mohammad R. Imam;Tushar K. Bera;Venkatachalapathy S. K. Balagurusamy

  • Predicting the Size and Properties of Dendrimersomes from the Lamellar Structure of Their Amphiphilic Janus Dendrimers

    Mihai Peterca;Virgil Percec;Pawaret Leowanawat;Annabelle Bertin

  • Steric communication of chiral information observed in dendronized polyacetylenes.

    Virgil Percec;Emad Aqad;Mihai Peterca;Jonathan G. Rudick

  • A supramolecular helix that disregards chirality

    Cécile Roche;Hao-Jan Sun;Pawaret Leowanawat;Fumito Araoka

  • Self-Assembly of Dendritic Crowns into Chiral Supramolecular Spheres

    Virgil Percec;Mohammad R. Imam;Mihai Peterca;Daniela A. Wilson

  • Expanding the structural diversity of self-assembling dendrons and supramolecular dendrimers via complex building blocks.

    Virgil Percec;Betty C. Won;Mihai Peterca;Paul A. Heiney

  • Molecular structure of helical supramolecular dendrimers.

    Mihai Peterca;Virgil Percec;Mohammad R. Imam;Pawaret Leowanawat

  • Principles of self-assembly of helical pores from dendritic dipeptides

    Virgil Percec;Andrés E. Dulcey;Mihai Peterca;Monica Ilies

  • Self-organizable vesicular columns assembled from polymers dendronized with semifluorinated Janus dendrimers act as reverse thermal actuators.

    Virgil Percec;Mohammad R. Imam;Mihai Peterca;Pawaret Leowanawat

  • Self-assembly of semifluorinated dendrons attached to electron-donor groups mediates their π-stacking via a helical pyramidal column

    Virgil Percec;Martin Glodde;Mihai Peterca;Almut Rapp

  • Self-Assembly of Dendronized Perylene Bisimides into Complex Helical Columns

    Virgil Percec;Mihai Peterca;Timur Tadjiev;Xiangbing Zeng

  • Self-assembly in action

    Virgil Percec;Goran Ungar;Mihai Peterca

  • Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Dendritic Dipeptides into Helical Pores

    Virgil Percec;Paul A. Heiney;D A. Hu;S N. Magonov

Frequent Co-Authors

Virgil Percec
Virgil Percec University of Pennsylvania
Paul A. Heiney
Paul A. Heiney University of Pennsylvania
Goran Ungar
Goran Ungar Xi'an Jiaotong University
Daniela A. Wilson
Daniela A. Wilson Radboud University
Xiangbing Zeng
Xiangbing Zeng University of Sheffield
Brad M. Rosen
Brad M. Rosen University of Pennsylvania
Robert Graf
Robert Graf Max Planck Society
Steven D. Hudson
Steven D. Hudson National Institute of Standards and Technology
Hans Wolfgang Spiess
Hans Wolfgang Spiess Max Planck Society
Ulrica Edlund
Ulrica Edlund Royal Institute of Technology

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