Composite materials composed of LiMnO2, a typical electrode material for lithium ion battery, and a chiral cyanide-bridged Ni（Ⅱ）-Fe（Ⅲ） coordination polymer [NiL2][Fe（CN）6]·4H2O （Ni-Fe, H-form） （L = （1...Composite materials composed of LiMnO2, a typical electrode material for lithium ion battery, and a chiral cyanide-bridged Ni（Ⅱ）-Fe（Ⅲ） coordination polymer [NiL2][Fe（CN）6]·4H2O （Ni-Fe, H-form） （L = （1R,2R）-（-）-1,2-cyclohexane-diamine） or its deuterium isomer, [NiL2][Fe（CN）6]·4D2O （Ni-Fe, D-form） have been prepared by the various ratios （w/w） of Ni-Fe：LiMnO2 = 10：0 （pure Ni-Fe）, 9：1, 8：2, 7：3, 6：4, 5：5, 4：6, 3：7, 2：8, 1：9 and 0：10 （pure LiMnO2）. Gradual shift of IR （infrared） spectra by changing the ratios and losing difference between H-form and D-form of Ni-Fe due to isotope effects revealed adsorption of Ni-Fe onto LiMnO2 to form composite materials. Formation of composite materials of Ni-Fe and LiMnO2 could be also proved losing ferromagnetic behavior of LiMnO2 on increasing of the ratios of Ni-Fe in each composite. In contrast to smoothly positive thermal expansion of pure LiMnO2 along the crystallographic b axis, variable temperature powder XRD （X-ray diffraction） patterns at 100-300 K of the composite materials exhibited thermally-accessible lattice distortion along the b axis with different ratios. It is also proved deviation of ideal linear correlation of an evaluation function, In K = a/T ＋ b （where, K = （d（T） - d（0））/d（T）, d（T） denotes nλ/（sin 2θ） at T （K））.展开更多
Supramolecular polymer complexes with small molecules are self-assembled through non-covalent interactions and have been proposed for a wide variety of applications in materials science and nanoscience.Our research gr...Supramolecular polymer complexes with small molecules are self-assembled through non-covalent interactions and have been proposed for a wide variety of applications in materials science and nanoscience.Our research group has recently shown the possibility of forming highly ordered nanofibers of supramolecular complexes in their thermodynamically stable state using the electrospinning technique.The ultrafast solvent evaporation rate of electrospinning made possible the in-depth characterization of complexes that had never been prepared in their pure state before because of kinetic issues associated with their formation by conventional approaches.The improved understanding of the formation mechanism allowed us to extend the concept to other techniques featuring a fast solvent evaporation rate,such as electrospray and spin-coating.In this article,we review our most significant contributions in this research field.展开更多
文摘Composite materials composed of LiMnO2, a typical electrode material for lithium ion battery, and a chiral cyanide-bridged Ni（Ⅱ）-Fe（Ⅲ） coordination polymer [NiL2][Fe（CN）6]·4H2O （Ni-Fe, H-form） （L = （1R,2R）-（-）-1,2-cyclohexane-diamine） or its deuterium isomer, [NiL2][Fe（CN）6]·4D2O （Ni-Fe, D-form） have been prepared by the various ratios （w/w） of Ni-Fe：LiMnO2 = 10：0 （pure Ni-Fe）, 9：1, 8：2, 7：3, 6：4, 5：5, 4：6, 3：7, 2：8, 1：9 and 0：10 （pure LiMnO2）. Gradual shift of IR （infrared） spectra by changing the ratios and losing difference between H-form and D-form of Ni-Fe due to isotope effects revealed adsorption of Ni-Fe onto LiMnO2 to form composite materials. Formation of composite materials of Ni-Fe and LiMnO2 could be also proved losing ferromagnetic behavior of LiMnO2 on increasing of the ratios of Ni-Fe in each composite. In contrast to smoothly positive thermal expansion of pure LiMnO2 along the crystallographic b axis, variable temperature powder XRD （X-ray diffraction） patterns at 100-300 K of the composite materials exhibited thermally-accessible lattice distortion along the b axis with different ratios. It is also proved deviation of ideal linear correlation of an evaluation function, In K = a/T ＋ b （where, K = （d（T） - d（0））/d（T）, d（T） denotes nλ/（sin 2θ） at T （K））.
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文摘Supramolecular polymer complexes with small molecules are self-assembled through non-covalent interactions and have been proposed for a wide variety of applications in materials science and nanoscience.Our research group has recently shown the possibility of forming highly ordered nanofibers of supramolecular complexes in their thermodynamically stable state using the electrospinning technique.The ultrafast solvent evaporation rate of electrospinning made possible the in-depth characterization of complexes that had never been prepared in their pure state before because of kinetic issues associated with their formation by conventional approaches.The improved understanding of the formation mechanism allowed us to extend the concept to other techniques featuring a fast solvent evaporation rate,such as electrospray and spin-coating.In this article,we review our most significant contributions in this research field.
