| Author(s) |
Julia L Martin, Erika Colin-Ulloa, Tianqi Jin, Adam Walter, Hussein O Badr, Joshua R. Uzarski, Michel W Barsoum, Lyubov V. Titova, Ronald Lionel Grimm |
| Abstract Scope |
We recently demonstrated scalable, one-pot syntheses of one-dimensional, titania lepidocrocite from water-insoluble, earth-abundant compounds such as TiC, TiB<sub>2</sub>, TiN, etc., with tetraalkylammonium hydroxide, TMAOH, for a few days at 85 °C under an air ambient. As synthesized, anionic oxide sides, Ti–O<sup>-</sup>, decorate the as-synthesized surfaces that demonstrate facile exchange of their tetraalkylammonium cation, (CH<sub>3</sub>)<sub>4</sub>N<sup>+</sup>. We presently demonstrate coupling these oxide sites to organic halides, R–Br, to yield strong, covalent Ti–O–R groups to leverage organic chemical control over 1DL wettability, stacking and aggregation dynamics, and carrier dynamics under photoexcitation. |