Threading chalcogenide layers with polymer chains.
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.
School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 (Singapore).
Wei-Wei
WW
Xiong
Jianwei
J
Miao
Kaiqi
K
Ye
Yue
Y
Wang
Bin
B
Liu
Qichun
Q
Zhang
electrochemistry; organic-inorganic hybrid composites; polymers; selenium; structure elucidation