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Water-phase synthesis of ordered hierarchical copper tetranitrophthalocyanine bundles with desirable superhydrophobicity

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Hierarchical fascine-like bundles of copper(II) 1,8,15,22-tetranitrophthalocyanine were prepared by an water-phase method, and showed desirable superhydrophobic characteristics without additional surface modification. Prominent advantages of this approach include: the use of water as reaction solvent obviously avoid environmental problems associated with organic solvents and the directly obtained hierarchical structures could be used as superhydrophobic materials. Based on the investigation of various experiment conditions, including additives, copper powders and reaction time, a growth and assembly mechanism has been proposed, that it follows a self-assembly and oriented attachment process.

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Acknowledgments

This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 81001696, 21101167), and “Western Light” Program of the Chinese Academe of Sciences (No. XBBS200815, XBBS200817).

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  1. Juan Li

    Present address: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aalto University School of Chemical Technology, Tietotie 3, 02150, Espoo, Finland

  2. Xuelin Tian

    Present address: Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University School of Science, Puumiehenkuja 2, 02150, Espoo, Finland

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  1. Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, People’s Republic of China

    Juan Li, Shuangqing Wang, Shayu Li & Guoqiang Yang

  2. Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Chemistry of Arid Zone, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urmuqi, 830011, People’s Republic of China

    Juan Li

  3. Xinjiang Key Laboratory of Electronic Information Materials and Devices, Xinjiang Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Urmuqi, 830011, People’s Republic of China

    Xuelin Tian

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Li, J., Wang, S., Li, S. et al. Water-phase synthesis of ordered hierarchical copper tetranitrophthalocyanine bundles with desirable superhydrophobicity. J Nanopart Res 14, 1273 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11051-012-1273-y

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