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Synthesis and Characterization of Supramolecular Colloids
Published on: April 22, 2016
Direct Synthesis of Crystalline Graphdiyne Analogue Based on Supramolecular Interactions
Weixiang Zhou1,2, Han Shen1,2, Chenyu Wu3
1Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), CAS Research/Education Center for Excellence in Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190 , People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
The synthesis of graphdiyne with an ordered internal structure is highly attractive for its various scientific and application investigations. We reported herein a rational method to fabricate a graphdiyne analogue with the help of supramolecular chemistry. The introduction of π-π/CH-π interactions controlled the conformations of the precursors and afforded multilayer graphdiyne analogue Ben-GDY through the wet chemical method. The in-plane periodicity of the multilayer Ben-GDY was corroborated by transmission electron microscopy and selected area electron diffraction, which showed a pattern well matched with ABC-style stacking.
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