The supramolecular design of low-dimensional carbon nano-hybrids encoding a polyoxometalate-bis-pyrene tweezer

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (38) ◽  
pp. 4881-4883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gloria Modugno ◽  
Zois Syrgiannis ◽  
Aurelio Bonasera ◽  
Mauro Carraro ◽  
Gabriele Giancane ◽  
...  

The host–guest chemistry of the POM-tweezer drives self-assembly with carbon nanostructures in the nano- to micro-scale yielding 0-, 1-, and 2-D nano-hybrids.

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Leonhardt ◽  
Jeff M. Van Raden ◽  
David Miller ◽  
Lev N. Zakharov ◽  
Benjamin Aleman ◽  
...  

Extended carbon nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs), exhibit remarkable properties but are difficult to synthesize uniformly. Herein, we present a new class of carbon nanomaterials constructed via the bottom-up self-assembly of cylindrical, atomically-precise small molecules. Guided by supramolecular design principles and circle packing theory, we have designed and synthesized a fluorinated nanohoop that, in the solid-state, self-assembles into nanotube-like arrays with channel diameters of precisely 1.63 nm. A mild solution-casting technique is then used to construct vertical “forests” of these arrays on a highly-ordered pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface through epitaxial growth. Furthermore, we show that a basic property of nanohoops, fluorescence, is readily transferred to the bulk phase, implying that the properties of these materials can be directly altered via precise functionalization of their nanohoop building blocks. The strategy presented is expected to have broader applications in the development of new graphitic nanomaterials with π-rich cavities reminiscent of CNTs.


Ionics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 1611-1618
Author(s):  
Xiaowen Ge ◽  
Xiaomei Du ◽  
Yin Sun ◽  
Junjie Zhang ◽  
Zhongyu Qiu ◽  
...  

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 2824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kunpeng Feng ◽  
Jiwen Cui ◽  
Xun Sun ◽  
Hong Dang ◽  
Tangjun Shi ◽  
...  

Three-dimensional micro-scale sensors are in high demand in the fields of metrology, precision manufacturing and industry inspection. To extend the minimum measurable dimension and enhance the accuracy, a tapered four-cores fiber Bragg grating (FBG) probe is proposed. The sensing model is built to investigate the micro-scale sensing characteristics of this method and the design of the tapered stylus is found to influence the accuracy. Therefore, a π/2 phase-shift point is introduced into the FBGs comprised in the probe to suppress spectrum distortion and improve accuracy. Then, the manufacturing method based on capillary self-assembly is proposed to form the probe and the critical length to form a square array for four cylindrical fibers is verified to be effective for the tapered fibers. Experimental results indicate that the design of the tapered stylus can extend the minimum measurable dimension by twofold and has nearly no influence on its sensitivity. The three-dimensional measurement repeatability is better than 31.1 nm and the stability is better than 200 nm within once measuring process. Furthermore, the measurement precision of the three-dimensional micro-scale measurement results is less than 150 nm. It would be widely used in measuring micro-scale features for industry inspection or metrology.


2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianmin Gu ◽  
Baipeng Yin ◽  
Shaoyan Fu ◽  
Cuihong Jin ◽  
Xin Liu ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (65) ◽  
pp. 9590-9605 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes A. A. W. Elemans ◽  
Roeland J. M. Nolte

This Feature Article gives an overview of the application of glycoluril-based porphyrin cage compounds in host–guest chemistry, allosterically controlled self-assembly, biomimetic catalysis, and polymer encoding.


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