Synthetic Nanoarchitectonics of Functional Organic-Inorganic 2D Germanane Heterostructures via Click Chemistry

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English

Succeeding graphene, 2D inorganic materials made of reactive van der Waals layers, like 2D germanane (2D-Ge) derivatives, have attracted great attention because their physicochemical characteristics can be entirely tuned by modulating the nature of the surface substituent. Although very interesting from a scientific point of view, almost all the reported works involving 2D-Ge derivatives are focused on computational studies. Herein, a first prototype of organic-inorganic 2D-Ge heterostructure has been synthesized by covalently anchoring thiol-rich carbon dots (CD-SH) onto 2D allyl germanane (2D-aGe) via a simple and green "one-pot" click chemistry approach. Remarkably, the implanted characteristics of the carbon nanomaterial provide new physicochemical features to the resulting 0D/2D heterostructure, making possible its implementation in yet unexplored optoelectronic tasks-e.g., as a fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) sensing system triggered by supramolecular pi-pi interactions-that are inaccessible for the pristine 2D-aGe counterpart. Consequently, this work builds a foundation toward the robust achievement of functional organic-inorganic 2D-Ge nanoarchitectonics through covalently assembling thiol-rich carbon nanoallotropes on commercially available 2D-aGe.

2D materials; carbon dots; fluorescence resonance energy transfer; optoelectronics; thiol-ene

MUÑOZ MARTIN, J.; PALACIOS CORELLA, M.; GOMEZ PEREZ, I.; ZAJÍČKOVÁ, L.; PUMERA, M.

1. 11. 2022

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

WEINHEIM

1521-4095

ADVANCED MATERIALS

34

45

Federal Republic of Germany

8

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202206382