Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.36, No.7, 647-653, 2015
Fabrication of High-Resolution 4,8(2)-Type Archimedean Nanolattices Composed of Solution Processable Spin Cross-Over Fe(II) Metallosupramolecular Polymers
This paper presents the synthesis of two highly soluble Fe(II) metallosupramolecular polymers with two counter anions from a novel back-to-back coupled hybrid ligand. The spin cross-over (SCO) temperature of polymers with BF4 and ClO4 counter anions is T-1/2 = 313 K and T-1/2 = 326 K, respectively. By following the top-down approach, one of the polymers (with ClO4 counter anion) is successfully solution processed using a lithographically controlled wetting technique to create laser readable high-resolution Archimedean (4,8(2)) nanolattices (consist of diamagnetic octagons and SCO squares). The thickness and top area of each SCO square are approximate to 75 nm and approximate to 2 x 2 m(2), respectively.