Patterning two-dimensional free-standing surfaces with mesoporous conducting polymers
Liu S, Gordiichuk P, Wu ZS, Liu Z, Wei W, Wagner M, Mohamed-Noriega N, Wu D, Mai Y, Herrmann A, Muellen K, Feng X (2015)
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2015
Journal
Book Volume: 6
Article Number: 8817
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9817
Abstract
The ability to pattern functional moieties with well-defined architectures is highly important in material science, nanotechnology and bioengineering. Although two-dimensional surfaces can serve as attractive platforms, direct patterning them in solution with regular arrays remains a major challenge. Here we develop a versatile route to pattern two-dimensional free-standing surfaces in a controlled manner assisted by monomicelle close-packing assembly of block copolymers, which is unambiguously revealed by direct visual observation. This strategy allows for bottom-up patterning of polypyrrole and polyaniline with adjustable mesopores on various functional free-standing surfaces, including two-dimensional graphene, molybdenum sulfide, titania nanosheets and even on one-dimensional carbon nanotubes. As exemplified by graphene oxide-based mesoporous polypyrrole nanosheets, the unique sandwich structure with adjustable pore sizes (5-20 nm) and thickness (35-45 nm) as well as enlarged specific surface area (85 m 2 g a '1) provides excellent specific capacitance and rate performance for supercapacitors. Therefore, this approach will shed light on developing solution-based soft patterning of given interfaces towards bespoke functions.
Involved external institutions
Shanghai Jiao Tong University / 上海交通大学
China (CN)
University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Netherlands (NL)
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (MPI-P) / Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Germany (DE)
Technische Universität Dresden
Germany (DE)
China (CN)
University of Groningen / Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
Netherlands (NL)
Max-Planck-Institut für Polymerforschung (MPI-P) / Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Germany (DE)
Technische Universität Dresden
Germany (DE)
How to cite
APA:
Liu, S., Gordiichuk, P., Wu, Z.-S., Liu, Z., Wei, W., Wagner, M.,... Feng, X. (2015). Patterning two-dimensional free-standing surfaces with mesoporous conducting polymers. Nature Communications, 6. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms9817
MLA:
Liu, Shaohua, et al. "Patterning two-dimensional free-standing surfaces with mesoporous conducting polymers." Nature Communications 6 (2015).
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