Interactions in self-organized nanoporous organic crystals.
This Letter reports on the structural analysis of a self-assembly material, the prototype host-guest urea-alkane nanoporous crystal. Different spectroscopic techniques, under hydrostatic pressure, reveal a totally unexpected ordered phase where ordering does not require any apparent deformation of the host. This fundamental observation raises the question of the actual interactions in other similar supramolecular or biological tubular systems.
Groupe Matière Condensée et Matériaux, UMR CNRS 6626, Université de Rennes 1, 35042 Rennes, France. bourgeoi@llb.saclay.cea.fr
Lydie
L
Bourgeois
Bertrand
B
Toudic
Claude
C
Ecolivet
Jean-Claude
JC
Ameline
Philippe
P
Bourges
François
F
Guillaume
Tomasz
T
Breczewski