Modular Construction of a Tessellated Octahedron, its Hierarchical Spherical Aggregate Behavior, and Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Activity

Guotao Wang; Yunna Yang; Hui Liu; Mingzhao Chen; Zhiyuan Jiang; Qixia Bai; Jie Yuan; Zhilong Jiang; Yiming Li; Pingshan Wang

doi:10.1002/anie.202205851

Modular Construction of a Tessellated Octahedron, its Hierarchical Spherical Aggregate Behavior, and Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Activity

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl. 2022 Oct 24;61(43):e202205851. doi: 10.1002/anie.202205851. Epub 2022 Sep 23.

Authors

Guotao Wang^{1

2}, Yunna Yang¹, Hui Liu^{1

2}, Mingzhao Chen³, Zhiyuan Jiang⁴, Qixia Bai³, Jie Yuan⁵, Zhilong Jiang³, Yiming Li⁴, Pingshan Wang^{4

3

2}

Affiliations

¹ School of Metallurgy and Environment, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China.
² Chinese National Engineering Research Center for Control & Treatment of Heavy Metal Pollution, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China.
³ Institute of Environmental Research at Greater Bay Area, Key Laboratory for Water Quality and Conservation of the Pearl River Delta, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou Key Laboratory for Clean Energy and Materials, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China.
⁴ Department of Organic and Polymer Chemistry, Hunan Key Laboratory of Micro & Nano Materials Interface Science, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, 410083, China.
⁵ School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Henan Normal University, Xinxiang, Henan, 453007, China.

PMID: 35929575
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202205851

Abstract

Coordination-driven self-assembly has led to the formation of various aesthetical polyhedrons and compounds with advanced functions. Whereas two-dimensional supramolecules with complex and giant skeletons are plentiful, the constructions of polyhedrons are limited by using basic polygons as the panels. Herein, we report the modular synthesis of a tessellated triangle and tessellated octahedron with metal-organic modules as the panels and formed via template-driven self-assembly. These architectures have diameters on the order of 10.9 nm and molecular weights greater than 84 kDa. Interestingly, fiber and spherical-like nanostructures could be formed from the tessellated triangles and octahedrons, respectively, through hierarchical self-assembly. In addition, after hybridization with carbon nanotubes, the supramolecules exhibit electrochemical reduction activity for CO₂ to CO.

Keywords: Nano-Fiber; Self-Assembly; Self-Healing; Template Oriented; Terpyridine.

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