title: Coordination Polymer Nanoglue: Robust Adhesion Based on Collective Lamellar Stacking of Nanoplates.
abstract: Despite a continuously growing interest in the integration of coordination polymer (CP) colloids toward functional materials, collective properties of the CP colloids have rarely been addressed mainly due to the difficulty in assembling pure CP colloids into superstructures with impressive mechanical strength. We demonstrated that CP nanoplates could stack together spontaneously upon drying the slurry of the nanoplates. The stacked CP nanoplates could work like polymeric adhesives. Versatile articles could be glued when the CP nanoplates were sandwiched between two substrates. In addition, the CP nanoplates themselves could form well-defined bulk structures without using any additional adhesives. The anisotropic shape together with the lamellar stacking way of the CP nanoplates were found to be the key points in leading to the adhesion and cohesion effect. The reasonable adhesion strength of the CP nanoglues can allow the exploration of further applications of integrated CP colloids in the future.
authors.forename: Yanyi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Wenwu
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science , 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Xiangfen
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Fengqiong
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Wei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Ji-Sen
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey , Guildford, Surrey GU27XH, United Kingdom.|Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University , Perth, WA 6845, Australia.
authors.forename: Jian
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5114-0404
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: World Premier International Research Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science , 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba 305-0044, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ariga
authors.forename: Ming
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5024-5650
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hu
keywords: adhesives; colloids; coordination polymers; nanoplates; self-assembly