Self-assembly of dendritic structures

There have been some impressive achievements in the past 1–2 years in the area of self-assembled dendritic structures. The most notable include self-assembly by non-covalent interactions as reported by Zimmerman, Fréchet, and others, Percecʹs ground-breaking discovery of self-assembling liquid crystalline materials based on dendritic compounds, and the accomplishments of Crooks, among others, in the area of dendritic self-assembled monolayers. © 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.