Issue 21, 2012

Light-triggered self-assembly of triarylamine-based nanospheres

Abstract

Tailored triarylamine units modified with terpyridine ligands were coordinated to Zn2+ ions and characterized as discrete dimeric entities. Interestingly, when these complexes were subsequently irradiated with simple visible light in chloroform, they readily self-assembled into monodisperse spheres with a mean diameter of 160 nm.

Graphical abstract: Light-triggered self-assembly of triarylamine-based nanospheres

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
06 Aug 2012
Accepted
03 Sep 2012
First published
06 Sep 2012

Nanoscale, 2012,4, 6748-6751

Light-triggered self-assembly of triarylamine-based nanospheres

E. Moulin, F. Niess, G. Fuks, N. Jouault, E. Buhler and N. Giuseppone, Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 6748 DOI: 10.1039/C2NR32168H

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