Surfactant-Induced Interfacial Aggregation of Porphyrins for Structuring Color-Tunable Liquids

Pei-Yang Gu, Ganhua Xie, Paul Y. Kim, Yu Chai, Xuefei Wu, Yufeng Jiang, Qing-Feng Xu, Feng Liu, Jian-Mei Lu*, Thomas P. Russell*

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Locking nonequilibrium shapes of liquids into targeted architectures by interfacial jamming of nanoparticles is an emerging area in material science. 5,10,15,20-tetrakis(4-sulfonatophenyl) porphyrin (H6TPPS) shows three different aggregation states that present an absorption imaging platform to monitor the assembly and jamming of supramolecular polymer surfactants (SPSs) at the liquid/liquid interface. The interfacial interconversion of H6TPPS, specifically H4TPPS2− dissolved in water, from J- to an H-aggregation was induced by strong electrostatic interactions with amine-terminated polystyrene dissolved in toluene at the water/toluene interface. This resulted in color-tunable liquids due to interfacial jamming of the SPSs formed between H4TPPS2− and amine-terminated polystyrene. However, the formed SPSs cannot lock in nonequilibrium shapes of liquids. In addition, a self-wrinkling behavior was observed when amphiphilic triblock copolymers of PS-block-poly(2-vinylpyridine)-block-poly(ethylene oxide) were used to interact with H4TPPS2−. Subsequently, the SPSs formed can lock in nonequilibrium shapes of liquids.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2871-2876
JournalAngewandte Chemie - International Edition
Volume60
Issue number6
Online published28 Oct 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 8 Feb 2021
Externally publishedYes

Research Keywords

  • interfacial assembly
  • interfacial interconversion
  • multicolor
  • porphyrin
  • structure liquid

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