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Carbon nanoarchitectures by design: pre‐organizing squaric acid with urea
Author(s) -
Jordan Thomas,
Shalom Menny,
Antonietti Markus,
Fechler Nina
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
asia‐pacific journal of chemical engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.348
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1932-2143
pISSN - 1932-2135
DOI - 10.1002/apj.2020
Subject(s) - squaric acid , lamellar structure , stoichiometry , urea , carbon fibers , chemical engineering , composition (language) , nanotechnology , morphology (biology) , chemistry , materials science , organic chemistry , crystallography , composite material , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , biology , composite number , genetics
The synthesis of carbon nanoarchitectures from pre‐organized precursor complexes with appropriate bonding patterns, here squaric acid and urea, is described. It is shown that depending on the precursor ratio, different crystal morphologies are formed, which can be transformed into nitrogen‐containing carbons with either lamellar or hollow tube‐like morphology. It is noted that despite the very different architecture, the composition of the final carbons is always close to a ‘C 2 N’ stoichiometry. Copyright © 2016 Curtin University of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.