Recent Progress of Noncovalent Interaction-Driven Self-Assembly of Photonic Organic Micro-/Nanostructures

Modern organic photonics is heavily reliant on micro-/nanostructured organic crystalline materials, not least because they exhibit advantageous physicochemical properties and can be easily fabricated by bottom-up approaches such as self-assembly driven by weak noncovalent intermolecular interactions (van der Waals forces, pi-pi interactions, hydrogen bonds, halogen bonds, charge transfer interactions, etc.). Herein, the effects of these interactions on organic crystal nucleation are summarized, the resulting low-dimensional organic crystal structures and their optoelectronic applications are discussed, and future development prospects are presented to inspire the further investigation of such optofunctional structures.

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This article summarizes the importance and applications of micro-/nanostructured organic crystalline materials in modern organic photonics, and presents future development prospects.