Prioti Choudhury Purba

1 Introduction 2D materials have emerged as an important class of nanomaterials owing to their remarkable mechanical, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties.[1, 2] Ultrasonic liquid-phase exfoliation is a simple and scalable approach to converting a wide range of layered materials into 2D nanosheets.[3-5] This process uses ultrasound energy to overcome weak inter-layer interactions without disrupting stronger in-layer interactions in order to produce free-standing mono- or few-layered...

Research Article PDF ShareShare Abstract Fullerene extracts obtained from fullerene soot lack their real application due to their poor solubility in common solvents and difficulty in purification. Encapsulation of these extracts in a suitable host is an important approach to address these issues. We present a new Pd6 barrel (1), which is composed of three 1,4‐dihydropyrrolo[3,2‐b]pyrrole panels, clipped through six cis‐PdII acceptors.

Self-assembly of a cis-blocked Pd(II) 90° ditopic acceptor [cis-(tmeda)Pd(NO ) ] (M) with a tetradentate donor L1 [benzene-1,4-di(4-terpyridine)] in 2:1 molar ratio yielded two isometric molecular barrels MB1 and MB3 in DMSO [tmeda = N,N,N′N′-tetramethylethane-1,2-diamine]. Exclusive formation of the symmetrical tetrafacial barrel (MB1) was achieved when the self-assembly was performed in aqueous medium. The presence of a large confined cavity makes MB1 a potential molecular container.