Anisotropic Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Polymers and Plasmonic Nanoparticles at the Liquid–Liquid Interface

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• 作者：Joseph J. Armao IV ; Irina Nyrkova ; Gad Fuks ; Artem Osypenko ; Mounir Maaloum ; Emilie Moulin ; Raul ArenalOdile Gavat ; Alexander Semenov ; Nicolas Giuseppone
• 刊名：Journal of the American Chemical Society
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：February 15, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：139
• 期：6
• 页码：2345-2350
• 全文大小：522K
• ISSN：1520-5126

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The study of supramolecular polymers in the bulk, in diluted solution, and at the solid–liquid interface has recently become a major topic of interest, going from fundamental aspects to applications in materials science. However, examples of supramolecular polymers at the liquid–liquid interface are mostly unexplored. Here, we describe the supramolecular polymerization of triarylamine molecules and their light-triggered organization at a chloroform–water interface. The resulting interfacial nematic layer of these 1D supramolecular polymers is further used as a template for the precise alignment of spherical gold nanoparticles coming from the water phase. These hybrid thin films are spontaneously formed in a single process, without chemical prefunctionalization of the metallic nanoparticles, and their ordering is improved by centrifugation. The resulting polymer chains and strings of nanoparticles can be co-aligned with high anisotropy over very large distances. By using a combination of experimental and theoretical investigations, we decipher the full sequence of this oriented self-assembly process. In such a highly anisotropic configuration, electron energy loss spectroscopy reveals that the self-assembled nanoparticles behave as plasmonic waveguides.