Threading chalcogenide layers with polymer chains

• Main Authors: Xiong, Wei-Wei, Miao, Jianwei, Ye, Kaiqi, Wang, Yue, Liu, Bin, Zhang, Qichun
• Other Authors: School of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Science::Chemistry::Physical chemistry::Electrochemistry
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106704; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25108
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Inserting polymers into a crystalline inorganic matrix to understand the structure, position, and the structure–property relationships of the resulting composites is important for designing new inorganic-organic materials and tuning their properties. Single crystals of polymer-chalcogenide composites were successfully prepared by trapping polyethyleneglycol within a selenidostannate matrix under surfactant-thermal conditions. This work might provide a new strategy for preparing novel crystalline polymer-inorganic composites through encapsulating polymer chains within inorganic matrices.