Directed Organization of Platinum Nanocrystals through Organic Supramolecular Nanoporous Templates

Abstract

We propose a novel approach to trap 2 nm Pt nanocrystals using nanoporous two-dimensional supramolecular networks for cavity-confined host-guest recognition process. This will be achieved by taking advantage of two features of supramolecular self-assembly at surfaces: First, its capability to allow the formation of complex 2D architectures, more particularly, nanoporous networks, through noncovalent interactions between organic molecular building-blocks; second, the ability of the nanopores to selectively host and immobilize a large variety of guest species. In this paper, for the first time, we will use isotropic honeycomb networks and anisotropic linear porous supramolecular networks to host 2 nm Pt nanocrystals.

Kinked row-induced chirality driven by molecule–substrate interactions

“…A 2D mothertemplate may also serve as a molecular sieve for the selection of guest-molecules by structural criteria [16][17][18] or by chiral criteria [19][20] . Besides these applications, 2D molecular templates were found recently efficient even for the formation of ordered arrays of nanoparticles 21 .…”