Graphene oxide (GO)-based nanocomposite films via facile and appropriate self-assembly methods have demonstrated many potential applications in wide fields. This study demonstrates a facile and clean route to prepare graphene oxide-dye composite films using Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique at room temperature. By electrostatic interaction between cationic dye molecules and negatively charged GO sheets as well as π-π interactions, GO-dye composite LB films were formed spontaneously. As a soft platform for dye molecules, GO sheets induce dye molecules to self-assemble and form highly ordered structures containing H-aggregates and/or J-aggregates. The morphological characterization results show the formation of GO-dye composite films with smooth and dense surfaces. And the spectral results reveal that dye molecules stack in well-organized aggregates on the surface of GO sheets corresponding to monomers in bulk solution. The present research work about GO-dye composite films by LB method may provide new clues to prepare organized composite films and demonstrate potential applications in many fields.
Two different kinds of configurations of 1,4-bis[2-(4-pyridyl)ethenyl]-benzene( trans -bpeb and cis -bpeb) were achieved, and a bpeb dimer was synthesized in dimethyl sulfoxide(DMSO). Compared with the previous work that synthesized the bpeb dimer or polymer in crystal with a template agent needed, the reaction occurred in a solution phase in the present method. A hand-held ultraviolet lamp(365 nm) with the power of 12 W and the Watt density of 0.35 mW/cm 2 can realize the photodimerization of bpeb, instead of the high-power mercury lamp in most previous studies. Unlike other 2+2 cycloaddition in liquid state using catalysts even noble metals, no catalysts were required here, which is cost-saving. Only the trans -pbeb can start the cycloaddition and the formation of the close J-aggregations of trans -pbeb in DMSO is a precondition for explaining the 2+2 photodimerization. The productivity for the 2+2 cycloaddition product was achieved as 55.6%.