Fig. 2: Investigation of self-assembly behaviors in aqueous solution.
a Stacked 1H NMR spectra of C11 in MeOD-d4/D2O mixture with variable volume ratios (each proton was assigned and labeled along with different solvent ratios, the kinetic radii of ensembles under each condition were measured by DOSY spectra and calculated by Stokes-Einstein equation). b Stacked 1H NMR spectra of analogous C9 in MeOD-d4/D2O mixture with variable volume ratios. c, AFM analysis of C11 in aqueous condition (a height profile of selected nanoparticle was inserted). d Statistical distribution of C11-based nanoparticle number versus size. e Left: NOE build-up curves for C11 in D2O, right: calculated intermolecular adjacent proton distances with peak d derived from the NOE growth rate analysis using peak g-d correlation as internal reference.
