Self‐Assembled Nanoarchitectures: Thin‐Film‐Based Nanoarchitectures for Soft Matter: Controlled Assemblies into Two‐Dimensional Worlds (Small 10/2011)

Under appropriate conditions, small molecular and polymeric building blocks self-assemble into various nanoarchitectures including thin films and 1D structures. The frontispiece of the Reviews section (left) illustrates dynamic self-assembly of nanowires with highly monodisperse dimensions from small amphiphilic porphyrin molecules at a solid substrate. For more information, please read the Review “Thin-Film-Based Nanoarchitectures for Soft Matter: Controlled Assemblies into Two-Dimensional Worlds” by K. Sakakibara,* J. P. Hill, and K. Ariga,* beginning on page 1287.