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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
卷 114, 期 45, 页码 14778-14786出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp105227p
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- U S Department of Energy Basic Energy Sciences [DE FG02 00ER45810]
- NSF-NSEC
- NSF-MRSEC
- Keck Foundation
- Northwestern University
Conjugated organic molecules can be designed to self-assemble from solution into nanostructures for functions such as charge transport, light emission, or light harvesting We report here the design and synthesis of a novel hairpin-shaped self-assembling molecule containing electronically active sexithiophene moieties In several nonpolar organic solvents, such as toluene or chlorocyclohexane, this compound was found to form organogels composed of nanofibers with uniform diameters of 3 0 (+/- 0 3) nm NMR analysis and spectroscopic measurements revealed that the self-assembly is driven by pi-pi interactions of the sexithiophene moieties and hydrogen bonding among the amide groups at the head of the hairpin Field effect transistors built with this molecule revealed p-type semiconducting behavior and higher hole mobilities when films were cast from solvents that promote self-assembly We propose that hydrogen bonding and pi-pi stacking act synergistically to create ordered stacking of sexithiophene moieties, thus providing an efficient pathway for charge carriers within the nanowires The nanostructures formed exhibit unusually broad absorbance in their UV vis spectrum, which we attribute to the coexistence of both H and J aggregates from face-to-face pi-pi stacking of sexithiophene moieties and hierarchical bundling of the nanowires The large absorption range associated with self-assembly of the hairpin molecules makes them potentially useful in light harvesting for energy applications
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