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Observation of Pore‐Switching Behavior in Porous Layered Carbon through a Mesoscale Order–Disorder Transformation
Author(s) -
Datta Kasibhatta Kumara Ramanatha,
Jagadeesan Dinesh,
Kulkarni Chidambar,
Kamath Anushree,
Datta Ranjan,
Eswaramoorthy Muthusamy
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201007031
Subject(s) - mesoscale meteorology , flexibility (engineering) , porosity , transformation (genetics) , materials science , carbon fibers , porous medium , order (exchange) , nanoscopic scale , nanotechnology , computer science , composite material , chemistry , physics , meteorology , business , mathematics , composite number , gene , biochemistry , statistics , finance
A structural chameleon : A porous layered carbon material (PLC) containing nanographene domains was prepared by graphitizing glucose within the nanoscopic voids of an aminoclay template. The size of the pores in the PLC was altered reversibly by a mesoscale order–disorder transformation brought about by an applied mechanical force (see picture). This pore flexibility was exploited for the size‐selective separation of dye molecules.