Volume no :2, Issue no: 1, July (2010)

SELF-ASSEMBLING POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS TO ORDERED NANO- TO MICRO- STRUCTURES IN THE GAS PHASE

Author's: Hong Wang, Xiaohe Xu and Haifeng Ji
Pages: [1] - [10]
Received Date: April 28, 2010; Revised July 20, 2010
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Abstract

We report the fabrication of nano- to micro- structures from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) without derivatizing these molecules by directly self-assembling them in the gas phase with a thermal evaporation process. Eighteen PAHs, ranging from three to ten fused rings, were selected for proof-of-concept studies and all of these PAHs self assembled to ordered nano- to micro- structures and each PAH has its unique morphology under appropriate conditions.

Keywords

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), self-assembly, nanostructure, crystal, thermal evaporation.