CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL, v.19, no.28, pp.9118 - 9122
Abstract
Taking shape nicely: The shaping of electro- and photochemically active calix[4]hydroquinone (CHQ) into nanoplates, -polygons and -tubes and their dynamic conversion into nanospheres and -hemispheres is demonstrated (see figure). CHQ nanostructures can be used to produce nanoshells and -cups with diverse shapes and sizes for a range of noble-metal- coated highly tunable plasmonic materials, generated without additional reducing agent.