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

Lopez-Andarias J, Luis Lopez J, Atienza C, Brunetti FG, Romero-Nieto C, Guldi DM, Martin N (2014)

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2014

Journal

Nature Communications Nature Publishing Group: Nature Communications

Book Volume: 5

Article Number: 3763

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4763

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. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited.

Authors with CRIS profile

Dirk Michael Guldi Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie I

Involved external institutions

Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) ES Spain (ES)

How to cite

APA:

Lopez-Andarias, J., Luis Lopez, J., Atienza, C., Brunetti, F.G., Romero-Nieto, C., Guldi, D.M., & Martin, N. (2014). Controlling the crystalline three-dimensional order in bulk materials by single-wall carbon nanotubes. Nature Communications, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4763

MLA:

Lopez-Andarias, Javier, et al. "Controlling the crystalline three-dimensional order in bulk materials by single-wall carbon nanotubes." Nature Communications 5 (2014).

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