Understanding self-assembly of matter on the nanometer scale is crucial in modern materials’ science to increase the control over novel properties such as responsiveness and reversibility for, e.g., self-healing or stimuli-repsonive materials. The results shown in this thesis discuss the use of difunctional…
The chemical defense of leaf beetle larvae represents a complex system of intercellular transport processes and enzymatic conversions, which often begins already in the secondary metabolism of the plant and ends in the deterrence of a predator, or the inhibition of microbial pathogens. This functions…