Issue 30, 2019

Self-assembled carbon nanoparticles as messengers for artificial chemical communication

Abstract

Herein, supramolecular carbon nanoparticle aggregates were obtained via covalent functionalization of the shell of nanoparticles with triazine and subsequent hydrogen bonding reticulation upon the addition of naphthalene diimide. The resulting reticulated nanoparticles maintained the optical properties required for artificial chemical communication but exhibited a reduced diffusion coefficient, enabling sharper and more intense molecular bit capabilities when employed as chemical messengers. As a result, they are ideal candidates for the transport of information along extended fluid paths. We believe that our results represent a further step towards the understanding and optimization of all the experimental parameters affecting the information transfer efficiency in artificial chemical communication.

Graphical abstract: Self-assembled carbon nanoparticles as messengers for artificial chemical communication

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
25 May 2019
Accepted
16 Jun 2019
First published
18 Jun 2019

Nanoscale, 2019,11, 14203-14209

Self-assembled carbon nanoparticles as messengers for artificial chemical communication

G. Li-Destri, L. Fichera, A. Zammataro, G. Trusso Sfrazzetto and N. Tuccitto, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 14203 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04461B

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