Reis and López Jiménez created a thin, rectangular stack of transparent PDMS sheets, mixed with a solution of black, micron-sized dye particles, that may be easily stretched, or deformed mechanically.
The PDMS molecules modified with triptycene could self-assemble into the desired 2D hexagonal arrays (shown in upper right of the figure) and then stacked to form a 2D+1D structure (shown in the lower ...
Supramolecular chemistry has garnered significant attention in materials science. This is because noncovalent interactions enable the addition of unique behavior to otherwise covalent systems. The ...