Progress in self-assemblies of macrocycles at the liquid/solid interface

Chunyu Ma; Jianqiao Li; Siqi Zhang; Wubiao Duan; Qingdao Zeng

doi:10.1088/1361-6528/ac08bd

Progress in self-assemblies of macrocycles at the liquid/solid interface

Nanotechnology. 2021 Jun 28;32(38). doi: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac08bd.

Authors

Chunyu Ma^{1

2}, Jianqiao Li^{1

2}, Siqi Zhang^{1

2}, Wubiao Duan², Qingdao Zeng^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory of Standardization and Measurement for Nanotechnology, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), Beijing 100190, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Chemistry, School of Science, Beijing Jiaotonng University, Beijing 100044, People's Republic of China.
³ Center of Material Science and Optoelectonics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, People's Republic of China.

PMID: 34098536
DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac08bd

Abstract

Macrocyclic self-assemblies have gained great interest for diversified structures and potential applications, such as catalysis, magnetism, photovoltaic devices, organic light-emitting diodes. Macrocycles can present regular assembly systems at the liquid/solid interface due to theπ-conjugated structures. Furthermore, suitable guest molecules can be selected for constructing multi-component supramolecular co-assemblies. This review mainly summarizes macrocyclic self-assembly structures with different shapes in recent years. All of the studies are completed with the assistance of scanning tunneling microscope at the liquid/solid interface.

Keywords: liquid/solid interface; macrocycles; scanning tunneling microscope (STM).

Publication types

Review