Syntheses of biphenyl-terminated polyhedral oligomeric octasilicate-core dendrimers and their single-component optical transparent free-standing thermoplastic films

Integrated POSS-dendrimer nanohybrid materials: current status and future perspective

Polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS)-dendrimer hybrid materials have attracted great interest in the past ten years. The integration of inorganic POSS and organic dendrimer blocks in a single-phase material offers numerous possibilities to access desirable mechanical, optical, and biomedical properties for various applications. In this review article, we describe several kinds of POSS-dendrimer hybrid materials (POSS as the core, surface functionality, repeating unit of dendrimers and the POSS-dendron conjugates) with an emphasis on their synthetic strategies, tunable macroscopic properties, and potential applications. Moreover, the current trends, challenges and future directions of POSS-dendrimer hybrid materials are elaborated.

Synthesis of a bi-functional terminal polyhedral octasilicate-core dendrimer containing carbazole and 1,8-naphthalimide, and its photoluminescence properties, film formability, and glass transition behavior

The bi-functional terminal polyhedral octasilicate (OS)-core dendrimer containing carbazole and 1,8-naphthalimide on its peripheries was synthesized and studied its photoluminescence properties, film formability, and glass transition behavior.

Conductive casting films based on an octasilicate-core dendrimer containing the mixed-valence state TCNQ on the periphery

An imidazolium–TCNQ anion radical terminated octasilicate (OS)-core dendrimer was synthesized to form conductive films by casting with the neutral TCNQ.