Self-assembling aramid amphiphiles

5.2 Work @ MIT-DMSE

Advisor: Prof. Julia Ortony

Designed and synthesized head-groups for the synthesis of self-assembling aramid amphiphiles to extract heavy-metals from groundwater. This work was accepted for the MRS Fall Meet, 2017, Boston, MA (Later withdrawn in order to patent the work). The molecules designed and synthesized here served as the initial prototypes and groundwork for future development continued in the following paper in Nature Nanotechnology: DOI - 10.1038/s41565-020-00840-w