Atomically efficient synthesis of self-assembled monodisperse and ultrathin lanthanide oxychloride nanoplates

Ya-Ping Du; Ya-Wen Zhang; Ling-Dong Sun; Chun-Hua Yan

doi:10.1021/ja8095416

Atomically efficient synthesis of self-assembled monodisperse and ultrathin lanthanide oxychloride nanoplates

J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Mar 11;131(9):3162-3. doi: 10.1021/ja8095416.

Authors

Ya-Ping Du¹, Ya-Wen Zhang, Ling-Dong Sun, Chun-Hua Yan

Affiliation

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Materials Chemistry and Applications & PKU-HKU Joint Laboratory in Rare Earth Materials and Bioinorganic Chemistry, Beijing 100871, China.

PMID: 19256565
DOI: 10.1021/ja8095416

Abstract

Monodisperse and ultrathin LaOCl nanoplates were synthesized via the thermolysis of La(CCl(3)COO)(3) in long chain amine and 1-octadecene. This single source precursor approach is simple but atomically efficient. The uniform amine-capped LaOCl nanoplates can be aligned into nanowire-like and nanorod-like superstructures, as a result of the different strengths of the interchain molecular interactions of the capping molecules during the self-assembly process of the nanoplates.