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Light-triggered self-assembly of triarylamine-based nanospheres
Emilie Moulin1, Frédéric Niess, Gad Fuks
1SAMS research group - University of Strasbourg, Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS, 23 rue du Loess, BP 84047, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex 2, France.
Nanoscale
|September 22, 2012
Abstract:
Tailored triarylamine units modified with terpyridine ligands were coordinated to Zn(2+) ions and characterized as discrete dimeric entities. Interestingly, when these complexes were subsequently irradiated with simple visible light in chloroform, they readily self-assembled into monodisperse spheres with a mean diameter of 160 nm.
