Open AccessScalable Synthesis of Two-dimensional Polymer Crystals and Exfoliation into Nanometer-thin Sheets
Author(s) -
Max J. Kory,
A. Dieter Schlüter
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.2015.217
Subject(s) - nanometre , exfoliation joint , materials science , graphene , nanotechnology , polymer , curse of dimensionality , monomer , covalent bond , thin film , computer science , chemistry , composite material , organic chemistry , machine learning
Two-dimensional materials have moved into the spotlight of researchers. The isolation of single graphene sheets has shown that restricted dimensionality can lead to interesting properties. Bottom-up synthesis of organic, covalently-bonded structures is, however, still challenging. In this publication we give a synopsis of a recently published monomer that is easily accessible and reversibly provides chiral two-dimensional polymer single crystals, which can be exfoliated into nanometer-thin sheets and show promise for applications in, for example, nonlinear optics and ultrathin membranes.