Journal article

Selective Metal-Phenolic Assembly from Complex Multicomponent Mixtures

G Lin, MA Rahim, MG Leeming, C Cortez-Jugo, QA Besford, Y Ju, QZ Zhong, ST Johnston, J Zhou, F Caruso

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces | Published : 2019

Abstract

Selective self-assembly in multicomponent mixtures offers a method for isolating desired components from complex systems for the rapid production of functional materials. Developing approaches capable of selective assembly of "target" components into intended three-dimensional structures is challenging because of the intrinsically high complexity of multicomponent systems. Herein, we report the selective coordination-driven self-assembly of metal-phenolic networks (MPNs) from a series of complex multicomponent systems (including crude plant extracts) into thin films via metal chelation with phenolic ligands. The metal (FeIII) selectively assembles low abundant phenolic components (e.g., myri..

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Grants

Awarded by Australian Research Council


Funding Acknowledgements

This research was conducted and funded by the Australian Research Council Centre (ARC) of Excellence in Convergent Bio-Nano Science and Technology (project number CE140100036) and an ARC Discovery Project (DP170103331). F.C. acknowledges the award a National Health and Medical Research Council Senior Principal Research Fellowship (APP1135806). This work was performed in part at the Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform (MCFP) at The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Node of the Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF). We also acknowledge Sergey Rubanov from the Bio21 Advanced Microscopy Facility (The University of Melbourne) for assistance with TEM.