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

Javier López-Andarias, Juan Luis López, Carmen Atienza, Fulvio G. Brunetti, Carlos Romero-Nieto, Dirk M. Guldi and Nazario Martín ()
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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

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-11

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4763

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