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Area of Science:

  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Materials Science
  • Nanotechnology

Background:

  • Significant advancements in self-assembling nano- and microscale architectures.
  • Challenges persist in achieving self-organization for hollow toroidal structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To report the synthesis of hollow polymer microrings.
  • To explore their properties and potential applications.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized rectangular, rigid-core monomers with predisposed alkene groups.
  • Employed thiol-ene photopolymerization with dithiol linkers for crosslinking.

Main Results:

  • Successfully synthesized shape-persistent, mechanically robust hollow toroidal structures.
  • Demonstrated tunable microring size controlled by initial monomer concentrations.
  • Showcased encapsulation of guest molecules within the intratoroidal nanospace.
  • Utilized microring peripheries as templates for circular metal nanoparticle arrays.

Conclusions:

  • The developed method enables the self-organization-based synthesis of hollow microrings.
  • These structures offer potential in molecular encapsulation and nanoscale templating.