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Mykhailo Vybornyi1,2, Yuliia Vyborna1, Robert Häner1
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Bern Freiestrasse 33012 Bern Switzerland.
Abstract:
The preparation of hybrid materials from supramolecular polymers through the sol-gel process is presented. Supramolecular polymers are assembled from phosphodiester-linked pyrene oligomers and act as water-soluble one- or two-dimensional templates for silicification. The fibrillary and planar morphologies of the assemblies, as well as the excitonic interactions between the chromophores, remain unaffected by the silicification process.
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