Zirconia/phenylsiloxane nano-composite for LED encapsulation with high and stable light extraction efficiency.

To obtain a rapid processible LED encapsulant that leads to high and stable light extraction efficiency (LEE), UV curable ZrO/phenyl-siloxane nano-composite (ZSC) double-layer encapsulants were prepared and optimized. The highly crystalline ZrO nanoparticles with a diameter of ∼14 nm were synthesized through a modified hydrothermal method at mild conditions, and a UV curable methacryl-diphenyl-polysiloxane (MDPS) with a refractive index (RI) of 1.54 (at 633 nm) was synthesized from self-condensation of diphenylsilanediol and an end-capping reaction.

Supramolecular architecture-directed synthesis of a reactive and purely inorganic ladder polyhydrosilsesquioxane.

A reactive and purely inorganic high Mw perfect ladder polyhydrosilsesquioxane (H-LPSQ) was first prepared under the direction of two imperative supramolecular architectures: ladder superstructure (H-LS) and donor-acceptor complex (DAC).

Linear dislocation tunes chirality: STM study of chiral transition and amplification in a molecular assembly on an HOPG surface.

Molecular arrangement and transition in the domain boundary of a chiral two-dimensional assembly is clearly revealed by high-resolution STM images on an HOPG surface and a linear dislocation formed by molecular trimers and located at opposite chiral domains is found to directly reverse the chirality on DTCD self-assembly.

Supramolecular template-directed synthesis of perfect phenelenediimino-bridged ladderlike polyphenylsiloxanes.

A template synthesis of the soluble, high molecular weight (Mw), and perfect p-phenylenediimino (p-PDA)-bridged ladderlike polyphenylsiloxane (PLPS) is reported. First, N,N'-bis(phenyldichlorosilyl)-p-PDA monomers were self-assembled into a perfect ladder superstructure (LS) by concerted interaction of aromatic pi-pi stacking and hydrogen bonding. Then the LS underwent a novel stoichiometric hydrolysis/dehydrochlorination-condensation reaction instead of the usual hydrolysis/dehydration-condensation reaction, leading to the PLPS.

A chiral luminescent Au16 ring self-assembled from achiral components.

A luminescent supramolecular chiral Au16 ring with 4.822 nm perimeter that self-assembled from a tetrameric array of achiral Au2 units is described. Intra- and intermolecular Au.

A novel aryl amide-bridged ladderlike polymethylsiloxane synthesized by an amido H-bonding self-assembled template.

A novel soluble aryl amide-bridged ladderlike polymethylsiloxane (A-LPMS) was synthesized by stepwise coupling polymerization on the basis of amido H-bonding self-assembling template from monomer N,N'-bis(3-methyldiethoxylsilylpropyl)-[4,4'-oxybis(benzyl amide)]. The monomer was prepared in a high yield by the hydrosilylation reaction of template agent N,N'-diallyl-[4,4'-oxybis(benzyl amide)] with methyldiethoxysilane in the presence of dicyclopentadienylplatinum dichloride (Cp(2)PtCl(2)) as catalyst. A variety of techniques including (1)H NMR, (13)C NMR, (29)Si NMR, FTIR, XRD, DSC, and, especially, static and dynamic light scattering and viscosimetry were combined to confirm the presence of the ordered ladderlike structure of polymer A-LPMS.