Transition Kinetics of Self-Assembled Supramolecular Dodecagonal Quasicrystal and Frank–Kasper σ Phases in AB n Dendron-Like Giant Molecules

Feng, Xueyan; Liu, Gengxin; Guo, Dong; Lang, Kening; Zhang, Ruimeng; Huang, Jiahao; Su, Zebin; Li, Yiwen; Huang, Mingjun; Li, Tao; Cheng, Stephen Z.  D.

doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00287

Title: Transition Kinetics of Self-Assembled Supramolecular Dodecagonal Quasicrystal and Frank–Kasper σ Phases in AB _n Dendron-Like Giant Molecules

Journal Article · Wed Jul 03 00:00:00 EDT 2019 · ACS Macro Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmacrolett.9b00287· OSTI ID:1595953

Feng, Xueyan ^[1];

^[2]; Guo, Dong ^[1]; Lang, Kening ^[1]; Zhang, Ruimeng ^[1]; Huang, Jiahao ^[1]; Su, Zebin ^[1];

^[3]; Huang, Mingjun ^[4]; Li, Tao ^[5];

^[6]

Univ. of Akron, OH (United States)
Donghua Univ., Shanghai (China)
Sichuan Univ., Chengdu (China)
South China Univ. of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS); Northern Illinois Univ., DeKalb, IL (United States)
Univ. of Akron, OH (United States); South China Univ. of Technology (SCUT), Guangzhou (China)

A series of noncrystalline AB_n dendron-like giant molecules DPOSS–MPOSS_n (n = 2–6, DPOSS: hydrophilic polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) cage; MPOSS: hydrophobic POSS cage) were synthesized. These samples present a thermodynamically stable phase formation sequence from the hexagonal cylinder phase (plane group of P6mm), to the Frank–Kasper (F–K) A15 phase (space group of Pm$$\overline{3n}$$), and further to the F–K σ phase (space group of P4₂/mnm), with increasing the number of MPOSS in a single molecule (n, from 2 to 6). Moreover, for DPOSS–MPOSS₅ and DPOSS–MPOSS₆, an intriguing dodecagonal quasicrystal (DQC) structure has been identified and revealed as a kinetic favorable metastable phase at lower temperatures, while the thermodynamically stable phase is the σ phase. The detailed investigation of the transition kinetics between the DQC and σ phase in these samples makes it possible to identify how the self-assembly directs the phase transition in terms of molecular and supramolecular aspects.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

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