Oriented Salts: Dimension-Controlled Charge-by-Charge Assemblies from Planar Receptor—Anion Complexes

摘要

Salts, ionic compounds comprising cations (positive ions) and anions (negative ions), are essential materials for biotic activities. They are also utilized as inorganic minerals for industry. The appropriate arrangement of charged species through electrostatic interactions is a significant issue for constructing ordered nanoscale architectures in various states. For example, most inorganic, organic, and inorganic-organic hybrid salts use electrostatic interactions between ions to form organized three-dimensional (3D) crystal structures.