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Controlling the crystalline three-dimensional order in bulk materials by single-wall carbon nanotubes

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  • Javier López-Andarias

    (Facultad de C. C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Juan Luis López

    (Facultad de C. C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Carmen Atienza

    (Facultad de C. C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Fulvio G. Brunetti

    (Facultad de C. C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

  • Carlos Romero-Nieto

    (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

  • Dirk M. Guldi

    (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

  • Nazario Martín

    (Facultad de C. C. Químicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

Abstract

The construction of ordered single-wall carbon nanotube soft-materials at the nanoscale is currently an important challenge in science. Here we use single-wall carbon nanotubes as a tool to gain control over the crystalline ordering of three-dimensional bulk materials composed of suitably functionalized molecular building blocks. We prepare p-type nanofibres from tripeptide and pentapeptide-containing small molecules, which are covalently connected to both carboxylic and electron-donating 9,10-di(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)-9,10-dihydroanthracene termini. Adding small amounts of single-wall carbon nanotubes to the so-prepared p-nanofibres together with the externally controlled self assembly by charge screening by means of Ca2+ results in new and stable single-wall carbon nanotube-based supramolecular gels featuring remarkably long-range internal order.

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  • Javier López-Andarias & Juan Luis López & Carmen Atienza & Fulvio G. Brunetti & Carlos Romero-Nieto & Dirk M. Guldi & Nazario Martín, 2014. "Controlling the crystalline three-dimensional order in bulk materials by single-wall carbon nanotubes," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 5(1), pages 1-11, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:5:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms4763
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4763
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