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"Spontaneous electrolysis" and simultaneously assembly hierarchy nanostructures of copper tetracyanoquinodimethane
Zhuoyu Ji1, Hongxiang Li, Yaling Liu
1Beijing National Laboratory of Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100080, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A simple method was developed to generate nanolamellas of CuTCNQ based on the principle of "spontaneous electrolysis". The nanolamellas were identified to belong to phase I of CuTCNQ. Intermediate products before nanolamellas were monitored with this method and beautiful artificial flowers were assembled based on the "spontaneous electrolysis." Moreover, CuTCNQ nanocrystal arrays could be grown on TCNQ single crystal surface homogeneously, which suggested a new method to assembly nanomaterials on crystal surface.
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