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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH
Volume 26, Issue 2, Pages 311-321Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1557/jmr.2010.7
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- National Science Foundation [DMR-0120967]
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)
- Boeing-Johnson Foundation
- Intel Foundation
- Center for Nanotechnology at the University of Washington
- NSF
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The self-assembling properties of two rationally designed discotic pi-conjugated hexaazatrinaphthylene (HATNA) molecules have been studied. In appropriate solvent systems, both ester-dodecyl-substituted and amide-dodecyl-substituted HATNAs self-assembled into nanowires and formed organogels. These nanowires could be easily transferred onto solid supports through spin casting for morphological study. In addition to the solution-based self-assembly method, solvent-vapor annealing (SVA) was explored as an alternative way to control the organization of supramolecular nanowires on surfaces. It was found that amorphous thin film of HATNA molecules transformed gradually into nanowire structures through a nucleation and growth mechanism during the SVA process. Several parameters including the preordering of molecules in the original thin film, choice of solvent vapors, annealing times, and surface properties were tuned to create different supramolecular organizations. Under particular conditions, aligned nanowires with preferential direction can be achieved.
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