Homogenous four-petal flower structure formation from metalloporphyrin self-assembly and its reversible transformation into an octahedron structure

Abstract

A uniform four-petal flower structure was homogeneously synthesized through metalloporphyrin self-assembly and its growth pathway has been proposed. For the first time, we illustrated that it is possible to reversibly transform between the octahedron structure and the four-petal structure by controlling the Gibbs energy of the self-assembly system.