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Title: Reversible Interlayer Sliding and Conductivity Changes in Adaptive Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks

Abstract

Ordered interlayer stacking is intrinsic in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) and has strong implications on COF's optoelectronic properties. Reversible interlayer sliding, corresponding to shearing of 2D layers along their basal plane, is an appealing dynamic control of both structures and properties, yet it remains unexplored in the 2D COF field. In this paper, we demonstrate that the reversible interlayer sliding can be realized in an imine-linked tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)-based COF TTF-DMTA. The solvent treatment induces crystalline phase changes between the proposed staircase-like sql net structure and a slightly slipped eclipsed sql net structure. The solvation-induced crystallinity changes correlate well with reversible spectroscopic and electrical conductivity changes as demonstrated in oriented COF thin films. In contrast, no reversible switching is observed in a related TTF-TA COF, which differs from TTF-DMTA in terms of the absence of methoxy groups on the phenylene linkers. This work represents the first 2D COF example of which eclipsed and staircase-like aggregated states are interchangeably accessed via interlayer sliding, an uncharted structural feature that may enable applications such as chemiresistive sensors.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7];  [8]; ORCiD logo [8];  [9]; ORCiD logo [10];  [4]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [3]
  1. South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou (China); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
  2. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry; China University of Geosciences, Beijing (China)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
  4. South China Normal Univ., Guangzhou (China)
  5. Univ. de Jaén (Spain)
  6. Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete (Spain)
  7. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Nanjing Forestry Univ. (China)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Advanced Light Source (ALS)
  10. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). The Molecular Foundry (TMF) and Advanced Light Source (ALS)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Scientific User Facilities Division; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province; China Scholarship Council (CSC)
OSTI Identifier:
1661601
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231; 21603076; 21571070; 21802128; 2018A030313193
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 12; Journal Issue: 16; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; conductivity switching; covalent organic frameworks; interlayer sliding; reversible phase transformation; solvent responsive; tetrathiafulvalene

Citation Formats

Cai, Songliang, Sun, Bing, Li, Xinle, Yan, Yilun, Navarro, Amparo, Garzón-Ruiz, Andrés, Mao, Haiyan, Chatterjee, Ruchira, Yano, Junko, Zhu, Chenhui, Reimer, Jeffrey A., Zheng, Shengrun, Fan, Jun, Zhang, Weiguang, and Liu, Yi. Reversible Interlayer Sliding and Conductivity Changes in Adaptive Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks. United States: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.0c03280.
Cai, Songliang, Sun, Bing, Li, Xinle, Yan, Yilun, Navarro, Amparo, Garzón-Ruiz, Andrés, Mao, Haiyan, Chatterjee, Ruchira, Yano, Junko, Zhu, Chenhui, Reimer, Jeffrey A., Zheng, Shengrun, Fan, Jun, Zhang, Weiguang, & Liu, Yi. Reversible Interlayer Sliding and Conductivity Changes in Adaptive Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c03280
Cai, Songliang, Sun, Bing, Li, Xinle, Yan, Yilun, Navarro, Amparo, Garzón-Ruiz, Andrés, Mao, Haiyan, Chatterjee, Ruchira, Yano, Junko, Zhu, Chenhui, Reimer, Jeffrey A., Zheng, Shengrun, Fan, Jun, Zhang, Weiguang, and Liu, Yi. Thu . "Reversible Interlayer Sliding and Conductivity Changes in Adaptive Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c03280. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1661601.
@article{osti_1661601,
title = {Reversible Interlayer Sliding and Conductivity Changes in Adaptive Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks},
author = {Cai, Songliang and Sun, Bing and Li, Xinle and Yan, Yilun and Navarro, Amparo and Garzón-Ruiz, Andrés and Mao, Haiyan and Chatterjee, Ruchira and Yano, Junko and Zhu, Chenhui and Reimer, Jeffrey A. and Zheng, Shengrun and Fan, Jun and Zhang, Weiguang and Liu, Yi},
abstractNote = {Ordered interlayer stacking is intrinsic in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) and has strong implications on COF's optoelectronic properties. Reversible interlayer sliding, corresponding to shearing of 2D layers along their basal plane, is an appealing dynamic control of both structures and properties, yet it remains unexplored in the 2D COF field. In this paper, we demonstrate that the reversible interlayer sliding can be realized in an imine-linked tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)-based COF TTF-DMTA. The solvent treatment induces crystalline phase changes between the proposed staircase-like sql net structure and a slightly slipped eclipsed sql net structure. The solvation-induced crystallinity changes correlate well with reversible spectroscopic and electrical conductivity changes as demonstrated in oriented COF thin films. In contrast, no reversible switching is observed in a related TTF-TA COF, which differs from TTF-DMTA in terms of the absence of methoxy groups on the phenylene linkers. This work represents the first 2D COF example of which eclipsed and staircase-like aggregated states are interchangeably accessed via interlayer sliding, an uncharted structural feature that may enable applications such as chemiresistive sensors.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.0c03280},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 16,
volume = 12,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}

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