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Royal Society of Chemistry, RSC Advances, 36(4), p. 18676-18682, 2014

DOI: 10.1039/c4ra01313a

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High-Modulus All-carbon Ladder Polymer of Hydroquinone and Formaldehyde that Bridges the Gap between Single Strand Polymers and Graphene Nanoribbons

Journal article published in 2014 by Shaozhong Zeng, Nengzhi Jin, Hailu Zhang ORCID, Bin Hai, Xiaohua Chen, Jianlin Shi
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

The high-strength and novel electronic properties of all-carbon macromolecules, as represented by carbon nanotubes and graphenes, originate from their conjugated all-carbon structures. The synthetic polymers with conjugated all-carbon ladder structures would partially inherit the excellent properties of carbon nanotubes and graphenes. However, such polymers as polyacene (PAC) are particularly difficult to synthesize. In this paper, we demonstrate the facile synthesis of an all-carbon straight ladder polymer from a one-pot polycondensation reaction between hydroquinone and formaldehyde. This polymer could be oxidized and isomerized to a fully aromatic all-carbon ladder structure identical to that of PAC. Such a conjugated all-carbon ladder structure will provide a long-sought-after model for investigations on the mechanical and electronic properties of PAC-like ladder structures. The chain and skeleton moduli of this polymer were calculated to be up to 50% (528 GPa) and 89% (932 GPa), respectively, of that of CNT(5,5) (1046 GPa).