Nature Communications (Nov 2016)

Wafer-sized multifunctional polyimine-based two-dimensional conjugated polymers with high mechanical stiffness

  • Hafeesudeen Sahabudeen,
  • Haoyuan Qi,
  • Bernhard Alexander Glatz,
  • Diana Tranca,
  • Renhao Dong,
  • Yang Hou,
  • Tao Zhang,
  • Christian Kuttner,
  • Tibor Lehnert,
  • Gotthard Seifert,
  • Ute Kaiser,
  • Andreas Fery,
  • Zhikun Zheng,
  • Xinliang Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms13461
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Forming 2D polymers in a controlled manner on the atomic and molecular level is difficult. Here, Feng and others have used Schiff-base polycondensation reactions at an air-water or liquid-liquid interface to form porphyrin containing monolayer and multilayer 2D polymers.