Fabrication of hexaphenylsilole nanowires and their morphology-tunable photoluminescence

Immersion of nanoporous alumina membranes into saturated solutions of hexaphenylsilole with subsequent solvent evoporation affords aligned organic nanowires. The luminescent properties of the hexaphenylsilole nonowires can be manipulated by varying their morphologies, which were controlled by changing the channel sizes of the alumina templates.