Journal
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
Volume 13, Issue 22, Pages 26411-26420Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c05967
Keywords
covalent organic frameworks; MD; DFT(B); Schiff base reactions; azine linkage; Langmuir-Blodgett
Funding
- European Union [813036]
- ERC [852909, 819698]
- DFG [SPP1928, 417590517]
- EU Graphene Flagship [881603]
- European Research Council (ERC) [819698, 852909] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study utilized a multiscale modeling strategy to investigate the synthesis of 2D COFs at air-water interfaces, demonstrating a successful synthesis and revealing the preferred orientation of building blocks at the interface. The synergy between computational investigations and experiments provides a foundation for the polymerization of 2D COFs.
Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) have attracted attention as versatile active materials in many applications. Recent advances have demonstrated the synthesis of monolayer 2D COF via an air-water interface. However, the interfacial 2D polymerization mechanism has been elusive. In this work, we have used a multiscale modeling strategy to study dimethylmethylene-bridged triphenylamine building blocks confined at the air-water interface to form a 2D COF via Schiff-base reaction. A synergy between the computational investigations and experiments allowed the synthesis of a 2D-COF with one of the linkers considered. Our simulations complement the experimental characterization and show the preference of the building blocks to be at the interface with a favorable orientation for the polymerization. The air-water interface is shown to be a key factor to stabilize a flat conformation when a dimer molecule is considered. The structural and electronic properties of the monolayer COFs based on the two monomers are calculated and show a semiconducting nature with direct bandgaps. Our strategy provides a first step toward the in silico polymerization of 2D COFs at air-water interfaces capturing the initial steps of the synthesis up to the prediction of electronic properties of the 2D material.
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