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CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS
Volume 43, Issue 13, Pages 4325-4340Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4cs00098f
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21125315, 21373241]
- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2012YQ120060]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Nanophotonics, which is mainly the study of the behavior of light-matter interaction at the wavelength scale, has developed into one of the most important branches in optics-related disciplines. Utilizing organic functional molecules as the building blocks of nanophotonic materials and devices has great potential due to the multiple advantages, including the molecular designability, good processability, tailorable properties, and so on. Small molecules exhibit a strong tendency to aggregate into lowdimensional structures through an assembly process. The morphologies of the formed products, which are tightly related to the stacking modes of the molecules, can be precisely controlled through the modulation of various intermolecular interactions. The optical properties of organic complex structures, assembled from one or more types of small molecules, show heavy dependence on the composition, distribution, as well as the topological structures, manifesting a strategy to acquire desired photonic properties via rational structural design and/or componential modulation. This tutorial review focuses on the relationship among various molecules, diverse structures and photonic properties, with emphasis on the controllable assembly processes to fabricate low-dimensional structures and assembly strategies to achieve requisite optofunctional properties.
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