Unimolecularly thick monosheets of vinyl polymers fabricated in metal-organic frameworks.

ABSTRACT: Polymers with two-dimensional (2D) network topologies are currently gaining significant attention due to their unique properties that originate from their regulated conformations. However, in contrast to conventional 1D- and 3D-networked macromolecules, the synthesis of such 2D networks provides challenges for polymer chemists because of the nature of the networking polymerisation reaction, which occurs in a spatially random fashion when conventional solution-phase synthesis is performed. Here we report a versatile synthesis of polymeric monosheets with unimolecularly thick networking architectures by exploiting the 2D nanospaces of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) as reaction templates. Crosslinking radical polymerisation in the 2D nanospaces of pillared-layer-type MOFs affords monosheets

SUBMITTER: Hosono N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7367882 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature