Solution and air stable host/guest architectures from a single layer covalent organic framework
D Cui1, J M MacLeod2, M Ebrahimi1
1Centre Énergie, Matériaux et Télécommunications, Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique, 1650 Boulevard Lionel-Boulet, Varennes, Québec J3X 1S2, Canada. jennifer.macleod@qut.edu.au rosei@emt.inrs.ca.
Abstract:
We show that the surface-supported two-dimensional covalent organic framework (COF) known as COF-1 can act as a host architecture for C60 fullerene molecules, predictably trapping the molecules under a range of conditions. The fullerenes occupy the COF-1 lattice at the solution/solid interface, and in dried films of the COF-1/fullerene network that can be synthesized through either drop-deposition of fullerene solution or by a dipstick-type synthesis in which the surface-supported COF-1 is briefly dipped into the fullerene solution.
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