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Fabricating van der Waals Heterostructures with Precise Rotational Alignment
Published on: July 5, 2019
Hydrogen-bond-driven 'homogeneous intercalation' for rapid, reversible, and ultra-precise actuation of layered clay
Shinsuke Ishihara1, Nobuo Iyi, Yoshihiro Tsujimoto
1International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan. ISHIHARA.Shinsuke@nims.go.jp
Chemical Communications (Cambridge, England)
|February 26, 2013
Abstract:
The use of hydrogen bonds permits a fluidic motion of differently sized alcohol molecules across the interlayer gap in LDH, which enables rapid and reversible tuning of interlayer spacing of the LDH at sub-Ångström precision by changing the mole ratio of the different alcohols.
