title: Highly Fluorescent Nanotubes with Tunable Diameter and Wall Thickness Self-Assembled from Asymmetric Perylene Diimides.
abstract: Highly fluorescent bilayer-walled and monolayer-walled nanotubes are assembled from elaborately designed asymmetric perylene diimide (PDI) molecules. The diameter of bilayer-walled nanotubes increases with the size of the branched substituents at the meta-position of the phenyl moiety of PDI molecules, whereas that of monolayer-walled nanotubes remains unchanged regardless of the size of branched substituents.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Cheng
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peng
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yibin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yifan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yanyong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Yanke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Che
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
authors.forename: Jincai
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
keywords: fluorescent sensors; nanotubes; self-assembly