Nanostructured materials of various shape and dimension have aroused intensive interests, among which copper(i) sulfide (Cu2S) nanomaterials are of particular prominence. In this work, various nanostructured Cu2S have been facilely prepared via solventless thermolysis, with well-controlled shape and dimension determined by and inherited from the layered structures of the azobenzene-containing single-source copper thiolate mesogenic precursors. The precursors with longer alkyl tails exhibit highly ordered layered liquid crystalline mesophases an...
