A Fullerene-Platinum Complex for Direct Functional Patterning of Single Metal Atom-Embedded Carbon Nanostructures

Yang, Dongxu; Chen, Xiangyi; He, Dongsheng; Frommhold, Andreas; Shi, Xiaoqing; Boden, Stuart A.; Lebedeva, Maria A.; Ershova, Olga V.; Palmer, Richard E.; Li, Ziyou; Shi, Haofei; Gao, Jianzhi; Pan, Minghu; Khlobystov, Andrei N.; Chamberlain, Thomas W.; Robinson, Alex P. G.

Abstract

The development of patterning materials (“resists”) at the nanoscale involves two distinct trends: one is toward high sensitivity and resolution for miniaturization, the other aims at functionalization of the resists to realize bottom-up construction of distinct nanoarchitectures. Patterning of carbon nanostructures, a seemingly ideal application for organic functional resists, has been highly reliant on complicated pattern transfer processes because of a lack of patternable precursors. Herein, we present a fullerene-metal coordination complex as a fabrication material for direct functional patterning of sub-10 nm metal-containing carbon structures. The attachment of one platinum atom per fullerene molecule not only leads to significant improvement of sensitivity and resolution but also enables stable atomic dispersion of the platinum ions within the carbon matrix, which may gain fundamentally new interest in functional patterning of hierarchical carbon nanostructures.

Citation

Yang, D., Chen, X., He, D., Frommhold, A., Shi, X., Boden, S. A., Lebedeva, M. A., Ershova, O. V., Palmer, R. E., Li, Z., Shi, H., Gao, J., Pan, M., Khlobystov, A. N., Chamberlain, T. W., & Robinson, A. P. G. (2022). A Fullerene-Platinum Complex for Direct Functional Patterning of Single Metal Atom-Embedded Carbon Nanostructures. Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 13(6), 1578-1586. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03877

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jan 25, 2022
• Online Publication Date: Feb 9, 2022
• Publication Date: Feb 17, 2022
• Deposit Date: Mar 18, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 10, 2023
• Journal: Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
• Electronic ISSN: 1948-7185
• Publisher: American Chemical Society
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 1578-1586
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03877
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/7418310
• Publisher URL: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03877
• Additional Information: This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters,copyright© American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03877