1. Self-assembly of nanocrystalline tetra-terpyridine complexes: from molecules to mesoscopic objects
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Paola Ceroni, Junji Sakamoto, Giacomo Bergamini, Jennifer K. Molloy, Margherita Venturi, Thomas Bauer, Jennifer K. Molloy, Paola Ceroni, Margherita Venturi, Thomas Bauer, Junji Sakamoto, and Giacomo Bergamini
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Mesoscopic object ,Mesoscopic physics ,Materials science ,Ligand ,Supramolecular chemistry ,Nanotechnology ,02 engineering and technology ,General Chemistry ,010402 general chemistry ,021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology ,Condensed Matter Physics ,01 natural sciences ,0104 chemical sciences ,Micrometre ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,chemistry ,Molecular self assembly ,luminescence ,Molecule ,Self-assembly ,Terpyridine ,0210 nano-technology ,Nanoscopic scale - Abstract
We report the properties of a shape-persistent tetra-terpyridine ligand whose coordination to transition metal ions guides its three-dimensional self-assembly in two steps: at first, nanoscale objects form, which with time, self-assemble into micrometer structures. This work highlights the potential for control of the molecular self-assembly of molecules on the nanoscale, and the successive self-assembly of the formed supramolecular nanosystems to yield mesoscopic objects.
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- 2013
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