Large scale, templateless, surfactantless route to rapid synthesis of uniform poly(o-phenylenediamine) nanobelts

Abstract

We reported the interesting finding that large scale uniform poly(o-phenylenediamine) nanobelts with several hundred micrometers in length, several hundred nanometers in width, and several ten nanometers in height can be rapidly yielded from an o-phenylenediamine–HAuCl₄ aqueous solution without the additional introduction of other templates or surfactants at room temperature.