The construction of ordered single-wall carbon nanotube soft-materials at the nanoscale is currently an important challenge in science. Here we use single-wall carbon nanotubes as a tool to gain control over the crystalline ordering of three-dimensional bulk materials composed of suitably functionalized molecular building blocks. We prepare p-type nanofibres from tripeptide and pentapeptide-containing small molecules, which are covalently connected to both carboxylic and electron-donating 9,10-di(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)-9,10- dihydroanthracene termini. Adding small amounts of single-wall carbon nanotubes to the so-prepared p-nanofibres together with the externally controlled self assembly by charge screening by means of Ca2+ results in new and stable single-wall carbon nanotube-based supramolecular gels featuring remarkably long-range internal order. © 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited.
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López-Andarias, J., López, J. L., Atienza, C., Brunetti, F. G., Romero-Nieto, C., Guldi, D. M., & Martín, N. (2014). Controlling the crystalline three-dimensional order in bulk materials by single-wall carbon nanotubes. Nature Communications, 5. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms4763
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