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Highly Fluorescent Nanotubes with Tunable Diameter and Wall Thickness Self-Assembled from Asymmetric Perylene
Cheng Peng1, Yibin Zhang1, Yifan Zhang1
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
Abstract:
Highly fluorescent bilayer-walled and monolayer-walled nanotubes are assembled from elaborately designed asymmetric perylene diimide (PDI) molecules. The diameter of bilayer-walled nanotubes increases with the size of the branched substituents at the meta-position of the phenyl moiety of PDI molecules, whereas that of monolayer-walled nanotubes remains unchanged regardless of the size of branched substituents.
