Functional Organic Nanomaterials from Molecular Engineering: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

A special issue of Nanomaterials (ISSN 2079-4991). This special issue belongs to the section "Synthesis, Interfaces and Nanostructures".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2023) | Viewed by 2059

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Interests: supramolecular chemistry; carbon materials

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you, along with the members of your research group, to contribute to the forthcoming Special Issue on “Functional Organic Nanomaterials from Molecular Engineering: Synthesis, Properties and Applications” in the MDPI journal Nanomaterials. Over the past decade, owing to their key properties, such as high surface areas, tailorable porous structures, tunable functionality, and excellent accessibility to active sites, functional organic-based nanomaterials have shown significant potential for various technological applications. In this Special Issue, we will focus on the key design and synthesis of various functional organic nanomaterials based on molecular engineering, which is regarded as an emerging field of study concerned with the design and testing of molecular properties, behavior, and interactions in order to assemble better materials, systems, and processes for specific functions. At the same time, we will collect recent findings (original research, communications, or review articles) and developments in the applications of advanced functional organic nanomaterials. We predict that this Special Issue will attract both academic and industry researchers to note the importance of the molecular design and applications of advanced functional organic nanomaterials.

We look forward to your contributions.

Dr. Yang Xu
Dr. Cheng Qian
Dr. Wei Zheng
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • nanomaterials
  • molecular engineering
  • organic chemistry
  • polymer
  • applications

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Facile Synthesis of Hydrogen-Substituted Graphdiyne Powder via Dehalogenative Homocoupling Reaction
by Jiayi Yin, Jizhe Liang, Chunxue Yuan and Wei Zheng
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(6), 1018; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13061018 - 11 Mar 2023
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Graphdiyne and its analogs are a series of artificial two-dimensional nanomaterials with sp hybridized carbon atoms, which can be viewed as the insertion of two acetylenic units between adjacent aromatic rings, evenly expanded on a flat surface. Although developed in recent years, new [...] Read more.
Graphdiyne and its analogs are a series of artificial two-dimensional nanomaterials with sp hybridized carbon atoms, which can be viewed as the insertion of two acetylenic units between adjacent aromatic rings, evenly expanded on a flat surface. Although developed in recent years, new synthetic strategies for graphdiyne analogs are still required. This work proposed a new method to prepare hydrogen-substituted graphdiyne powder via a dehalogenative homocoupling reaction. The polymerization was unanticipated while the initial goal was to synthesize a γ-graphyne analog via Sonogashira cross-coupling reaction. Compared with previous synthetic strategies, the reaction time was conspicuously shortened and the Pd catalyst was inessential. The powder obtained exhibited a porous structure and high electrocatalytic activity in the hydrogen/oxygen evolution reaction, which has the potential for application in electrochemical catalysis. The reported methodology provides an efficient synthetic strategy for large-scale preparation. Full article
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Hyper-Crosslinked Porous Organic Nanomaterials: Structure-Oriented Design and Catalytic Applications
by Yiqian Luo, Yixuan Mei, Yang Xu and Kun Huang
Nanomaterials 2023, 13(18), 2514; https://doi.org/10.3390/nano13182514 - 8 Sep 2023
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Hyper-crosslinked porous organic nanomaterials, especially the hyper-crosslinked polymers (HCPs), are a unique class of materials that combine the benefits of high surface area, porous structure, and good chemical and thermal stability all rolled into one. A wide range of synthetic methods offer an [...] Read more.
Hyper-crosslinked porous organic nanomaterials, especially the hyper-crosslinked polymers (HCPs), are a unique class of materials that combine the benefits of high surface area, porous structure, and good chemical and thermal stability all rolled into one. A wide range of synthetic methods offer an enormous variety of HCPs with different pore structures and morphologies, which has allowed HCPs to be developed for gas adsorption and separations, chemical adsorption and encapsulation, and heterogeneous catalysis. Here, we present a systematic review of recent approaches to pore size modulation and morphological tailoring of HCPs and their applications to catalysis. We mainly compare the effects of pore size modulation and morphological tailoring on catalytic applications, aiming to pave the way for researchers to develop HCPs with an optimal performance for modern applications. Full article
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