Volume 132, Issue 35 pp. 15216-15220
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Gas-Constructed Vesicles with Gas-Moldable Membrane Architectures

Miaomiao Xu

Miaomiao Xu

State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, No. 220, Handan Rd., Shanghai, China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Dr. Liang Chen

Dr. Liang Chen

State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, No. 220, Handan Rd., Shanghai, China

These authors contributed equally to this work.

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Prof. Dr. Qiang Yan

Corresponding Author

Prof. Dr. Qiang Yan

State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, No. 220, Handan Rd., Shanghai, China

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First published: 28 June 2019

Abstract

Integrating gas as a main building block into nanomaterial construction is a challenging mission that remains elusive. Herein, we report a gas-constructed vesicular system formed by CO2 gas and frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs). Two molecular triads bearing three bulky borane and phosphine groups are designed as trivalent disc-like FLP monomers. CO2, as a gas cross-linker, can drive the two-dimensional polymerization of these two FLP monomers, leading to the generation of planar FLP networks that further transform into a thermodynamically favored membranous vesicle structure. Gas-guided vesicle formation is also applicable to other inert but FLP-activatable gases. Different gas linkages can form vesicles with distinct architectures, sizes, and morphologies. We envisage that this study would suggest a new concept that exploits gases to fabricate tunable nanomaterials.

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