Issue 29, 2019

Soft self-assembled sub-5 nm scale chessboard and snub-square tilings with oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene) rods

Abstract

X-Shaped bolapolyphiles, comprising a linear polyaromatic core with glycerol groups at each end and two chemically different and incompatible chains, fixed to it at opposite sides, were synthesized and found to self-assemble into honeycomb-type liquid crystalline phases with square symmetry. The polyaromatic π-conjugated rods form the cell walls and the resulting prismatic cells of sub-5 nm size are alternatively filled with perfluorocarbon (RF) and the carbosilane chains (RSi). The resulting structures can be represented as either a two-colour snub-square tiling with triangular and square cells or as a chessboard tiling of squares.

Graphical abstract: Soft self-assembled sub-5 nm scale chessboard and snub-square tilings with oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene) rods

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
19 Jan 2019
Accepted
21 Feb 2019
First published
21 Feb 2019

Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 4154-4157

Soft self-assembled sub-5 nm scale chessboard and snub-square tilings with oligo(para-phenyleneethynylene) rods

C. Nürnberger, H. Lu, X. Zeng, F. Liu, G. Ungar, H. Hahn, H. Lang, M. Prehm and C. Tschierske, Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 4154 DOI: 10.1039/C9CC00494G

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