The Marriage of Terpyridines and Inorganic Nanoparticles: Synthetic Aspects, Characterization Techniques and Potential Applications
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Winter, Andreas; Höppener, Stephanie; Newkome, George R.; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- Terpyridines represent versatile functional supramolecular building blocks
that are easily integrated in numerous devices and can readily modify surfaces.
In particular, redox-active complexes with terpyridine ligands have
been attached to surfaces, either by covalent or non-covalent interactions,
and form highly ordered mono- or multilayer systems, since electronic and
charge transport properties are major topics of interest. Their applications in
nanoelectronics are a driving force for understanding and enabling the utilization
of the supramolecular properties of terpyridines for surface modifi cation.
This area of research has received increasing attention during the last decade
leading into the supramacromolecular regime. This Progress Report presents
an overview of the state-of-the-art of surface modifi cations utilizing terpyridine
systems and highlights main results, as well as modern trends, in this
research area.
- Year:
- 2011
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Journal:
- Advanced Materials
- Volume:
- 23
- Pages:
- 3484 - 3498