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Cooperative self-assembly of porphyrins and derivatives

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There has been widespread recent interest in self-assembly and synthesis of porphyrin and its derivatives-based ordered arrays aiming to emulate natural light-harvesting processes and energy storage. However, technologies that leverage the structural advantages of individual porphyrins have not been fully realized and have been limited by available synthesis methods. This article provides general perspectives on porphyrin and derivative chemistry, and discussions on surfactant-assisted cooperative self-assembly using amphiphilic surfactants and functional porphyrins and derivatives. The cooperative self-assembly amplifies the intrinsic advantages of individual porphyrins by engineering them into well-defined one-dimensional–three-dimensional (1D–3D) nanostructures. Surfactant-assisted self-assembly of amphiphilic surfactants and porphyrins has been utilized to form well-defined “micelle-like” nanostructures. Driven by intermolecular interactions, subsequent nucleation and growth confined within these nanostructures lead to the formation of 1D–3D ordered optically and electrically active nanomaterials with structure and function on multiple length scales.

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H.F. acknowledges partial support from the Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the US Department of Energy (US DOE) Office of Science and Sandia’s Laboratory Directed Research & Development Program. W.W. acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21422102 and 21403054). This article describes objective technical results and analysis. Any subjective views or opinions that might be expressed in the article do not necessarily represent the views of the US DOE or the United States Government. Sandia National Laboratories is a multi-mission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International, Inc., for the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration under Contract DE-NA0003525.

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  1. Key Laboratory for Special Functional Materials, National and Local Joint Engineering Research Center for High-Efficiency Display and Lighting Technology, School of Materials Science and Engineering, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Nano Functional Materials and Applications, Henan University, China

    Wenbo Wei

  2. Department of Physics and Electronics, Henan University, China

    Jiajie Sun

  3. Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies, Sandia National Laboratories; and Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, The University of New Mexico, USA

    Hongyou Fan

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Wei, W., Sun, J. & Fan, H. Cooperative self-assembly of porphyrins and derivatives. MRS Bulletin 44, 178–182 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2019.39

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