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Published on: September 26, 2016
Room temperature on-surface synthesis of two-dimensional imine polymers at the solid/liquid interface: concentration
Yanxia Yu1, Jianbin Lin2, Yan Wang3
1Tianjin Key Laboratory of Molecular Optoelectronic Science, Department of Chemistry, School of Science & Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering (Tianjin), Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, People's Republic of China. shengbin.lei@tju.edu.cn and Key Laboratory of Microsystems and Microstructures Manufacturing, Ministry of Education, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, 150080, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Though moderate heating in a controlled environment is generally considered to be necessary, in this work we show that the most important prerequisite for obtaining high quality 2D imine polymers at the interface is the concentration and molar ratio of building blocks on the surface. With diverse monomers we have demonstrated that the concentration-in-control strategy is a general and powerful way to construct covalent single layer 2D imine polymers with high regularity at the solid/liquid interface.
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