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Indirect Fabrication of Lattice Metals with Thin Sections Using Centrifugal Casting
Published on: May 14, 2016
Formation and geometrical control of polygon-like metal-coordination assemblies
Hiromitsu Maeda1, Ryo Akuta, Yuya Bando
1College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Kusatsu 525-8577, Japan. maedahir@ph.ritsumei.ac.jp
Abstract:
Polygon-like [2+2]- and [3+3]-type metal complexes were prepared from dipyrrin dimers connected by acute-angled spacers. The electrical conduction depends strongly on the packing alignment of the compounds, revealing the presence of effective hopping pathways for holes with relatively high mobility up to 0.11 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) along the aligned axis of [3+3]-type metal-bridged assemblies. These observations correlated with the geometrical control of the π-conjugated metal complexes in the cyclic structures, which enables their ordered arrangement in the assemblies.
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