Surface-Confined Winding Assembly of Mesoporous Nanorods

Autor: Wael N. Hozzein, Zuyang He, Qiaoyu Zhou, Qiwen Chen, Runfeng Lin, Liang Chen, Kun Lan, Fan Zhang, Caixia Sun, Tiancong Zhao, Areej Abdulkareem Al-Khalaf, Xiaomin Li, Chin-Te Hung, Dongyuan Zhao, Xingmiao Zhang, Wenxing Wang
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142:20359-20367
ISSN: 1520-5126
0002-7863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c08277
Popis: Bending and folding are important stereoscopic geometry parameters of one-dimensional (1D) nanomaterials, yet the precise control of them has remained a great challenge. Herein, a surface-confined winding assembly strategy is demonstrated to regulate the stereoscopic architecture of uniform 1D mesoporous SiO2 (mSiO2) nanorods. Based on this brand-new strategy, the 1D mSiO2 nanorods can wind on the surface of 3D premade nanoparticles (sphere, cube, hexagon disk, spindle, rod, etc.) and inherit their surface topological structures. Therefore, the mSiO2 nanorods with a diameter of ∼50 nm and a variable length can be bent into arc shapes with variable radii and radians, as well as folded into 60, 90, 120, and 180° angular convex corners with controllable folding times. Additionally, in contrast to conventional core@shell structures, this winding structure induces partial exposure and accessibility of the premade nanoparticles. The functional nanoparticles can exhibit large accessible surface and efficient energy exchanges with the surroundings. As a proof of concept, winding-structured CuS&mSiO2 nanocomposites are fabricated, which are made up of a 100 nm CuS nanosphere and the 1D mSiO2 nanorods with a diameter of ∼50 nm winding the nanosphere in the perimeter. The winding structured nanocomposites are demonstrated to have fourfold photoacoustic imaging intensity compared with the conventional core@shell nanostructure with an inaccessible core because of the greatly enhanced photothermal conversion efficiency (increased by ∼30%). Overall, our work paves the way to the design and synthesis of 1D nanomaterials with controllable bending and folding, as well as the formation of high-performance complex nanocomposites.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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