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Preparation of Carbon Nanosheets at Room Temperature
Published on: March 8, 2016
Nanoscale architectures for molecular electronics: vibrational spectroscopy and structure of solid
Marta Carminati1, Luigi Brambilla, Giuseppe Zerbi
1Dipartimento di Chimica, Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica Gulio Natta, NanoEngineered Materials and Surfaces, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Abstract:
The solid columnar discotic and liquid-crystalline phases formed by hexa-n-dodecyl-hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC-C12) have been investigated by IR and Raman vibrational spectroscopies. IR spectra clearly show the two phase transitions at 42 and at 107 degrees C already reported in literature and allow us to understand the conformational modifications of the n-alkyl chains that take place through the transitions. Thanks to the collected data, we propose a model of the structure of HBC-C12 in the solid-crystalline phase below 42 degrees C which includes the structure of the alkyl chains. This model is also confirmed by dichroic infrared microscopy measurements on highly oriented samples.
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