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One-dimensional Porphyrin Nanoassemblies Assisted via Graphene Oxide: Sheetlike Functional Surfactant and Enhanced Photocatalytic Behaviors

One-dimensional Porphyrin Nanoassemblies Assisted via Graphene Oxide: Sheetlike Functional Surfactant and Enhanced Photocatalytic Behaviors

Peipei Guo, Penglei Chen, Minghua Liu

ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2013 Jun 12;5(11):5336-45.

PMID: 23651184

Abstract:

Surfactant-assisted self-assembly (SAS) has received much attention for supramolecular nanoassemblies, due to its simplicity and easiness in realizing a controllable assembly. However, in most of the existing SAS protocols, the employed surfactants work only as a regulator for a controllable assembly but not as active species for function improvement. In this paper, we report that a porphyrin, zinc 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-pyridyl)-21H,23H-porphine (ZnTPyP), could be assembled to form one-dimensional (1D) supramolecular nanostructures via a SAS method, wherein graphene oxide (GO) plays a fascinating role of sheetlike surfactant. We show that, when a chloroform or tetrahydrofuran solution of ZnTPyP is injected into an aqueous dispersion of GO, 1D supramolecular nanoassemblies of ZnTPyP with well-defined internal structures could be easily formulated in a controllable manner. Our experimental facts disclose that the complexation of ZnTPyP with the two-dimensional GO nanosheets plays an important role in this new type of SAS. More interestingly, compared with the 1D ZnTPyP nanoassemblies formulated via a conventional SAS, wherein cetyltrimethylammonium bromide is used as surfactant, those constructed via our GO-assisted SAS display distinctly enhanced photocatalytic activity for the photodegradation of rhodamine B under visible-light irradiation. Our new findings suggest that GO could work not only as an emergent sheetlike surfactant for SAS in terms of supramolecular nanoassembly but also as functional components during the performance of the assembled nanostructures.

Chemicals Related in the Paper:

Catalog Number	Product Name	Structure	CAS Number	Price
AP31183116	Zinc 5,10,15,20-tetra(4-pyridyl)-21H,23H-porphine		31183-11-6	Price

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