Highly fluorinated molecular organised systems: strategy and concept

This paper presents recent efforts of our group in highly fluorinated organ ic synthesis which allow us to use the resulting compounds to elaborate mol ecular organised systems (MOSs). These MOSs can be considered either as org anic materials such as artificial liposomes, oxygen carrier emulsions, liqu id crystals,..., or as substrates for treatments of organic or inorganic ma terials, such as biocides or self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). In order to illustrate this work and the particular interests in the introduction of pe rfluorinated chains in these types of materials and compounds, recent resul ts obtained in the fields of biotechnology, liquid crystals, self-assembled monolayers and polymers are presented. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.