Zhiyuan Tian Yu Chen Wensheng Yang Jiannian Yao Lingyun Zhu Zhigang Shuai

Organic low-dimensional nanostructures used as nanoscaled building blocks candidates have attracted considerable research interests in the development of novel nanodevices. Our results in the present work demonstrate that sufficiently strong noncovalent intermolecular interactions by introducing specific substituent moieties can be used to guide structurally defined nanostructures with highly monodisperse size. Furthermore different dominant intermolecular interactions based on molecular components with different structural and conformational characteristics are likely to exert dramatic effects on the aggregation behaviors of the model molecules and therefore the structural and spectroscopic features of the final nanostructures.

Two kinds of nanostructures with distinct morphological properties and highly monodisperse size.

Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2004 43 4060-4063