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Remy Pawlak1, Sylvain Clair, Vincent Oison
1Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Matériaux, Microélectronique et Nanosciences de Provence, CNRS UMR 6242, Campus de Saint-Jérôme, Case 142, 13397 Marseille Cedex, France.
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Alcohol oxidation and self-assembly: the in situ oxidation of hydroxyl functional groups to quinone groups promotes the formation of enhanced hydrogen bonds and allows reorganization of the resulting supramolecular self-assemblies, which evolve from a weakly bound dense phase to a strongly bound nanoporous open structure (see picture).
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