Dynamic covalent assembly and disassembly of nanoparticle aggregates
Abstract
The quantitative assembly and disassembly of a new type of dynamic covalent nanoparticle (NP) building block is reported. In situ spectroscopic characterization reveals constitutionally adaptive NP-bound monolayers of boronate esters. Ditopic linker molecules are used to produce covalently connected AuNP assemblies, displaying open dendritic morphologies, and which, despite being linked by covalent bonds, can be fully disassembled on application of an appropriate chemical stimulus.
Citation
Borsley , S & Kay , E R 2016 , ' Dynamic covalent assembly and disassembly of nanoparticle aggregates ' Chemical Communications , vol 52 , no. 58 , pp. 9117-9120 . DOI: 10.1039/C6CC00135A
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Postprint
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Chemical Communications
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Peer reviewed
ISSN
1359-7345Type
Journal article
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Copyright 2016 the Authors. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C6CC00135A
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This work was supported by the EPSRC (EP/K016342/1 and EP/J500549/1), the University of St Andrews and by a Royal Society of Edinburgh/Scottish Government Fellowship (E.R.K.).
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