On-surface synthesis of one-type pore single-crystal porous covalent organic frameworks

Chem Commun (Camb). 2019 Sep 16;55(72):10800-10803. doi: 10.1039/c9cc04561a. Epub 2019 Aug 21.

Abstract

Employing a 1,3,5-tris(4-bromophenyl)benzene precursor as a building block, we successfully fabricate large-scale, non-multihole and single-layer pCOFs on the Ag(111) surface in a controllable manner via the on-surface reaction. We reveal that two main factors, the heating rate and growth temperature, have a strong impact on the size and quality of the pCOFs by STM. Furthermore, the band gap of the pCOFs has been further measured to be approximately 3.01 eV.