Issue 10, 2018

Tailoring the structures and photonic properties of low-dimensional organic materials by crystal engineering

Abstract

Low-dimensional organic materials have given rise to tremendous interest in optoelectronic applications, owing to their controllable photonic properties. However, the controlled-synthesis approaches for organic nano-/micro-architectures are very difficult to attain, because the weak interaction (van der Waals force) between the organic molecules cannot dominate the kinetic process of crystal growth. We report a simple method, which involves selective adhesion to the organic crystal plane by hydrogen-bonding interaction for modulating the crystal growth process, which leads either to the self-assembly of one organic molecule into two-dimensional (2D) microsheets with an obvious asymmetric light propagation or one-dimensional (1D) microrods with low propagation loss. The method of tailoring the structures and photonic properties for fabricating different micro-structures would provide enlightenment for the development of tailor-made mini-sized devices for photonic integrated circuits.

Graphical abstract: Tailoring the structures and photonic properties of low-dimensional organic materials by crystal engineering

Supplementary files

Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
05 Nov 2017
Accepted
14 Feb 2018
First published
15 Feb 2018

Nanoscale, 2018,10, 4680-4685

Tailoring the structures and photonic properties of low-dimensional organic materials by crystal engineering

Q. Li, W. Jin, M. Chu, W. Zhang, J. Gu, B. Shahid, A. Chen, Y. Yu, S. Qiao and Y. S. Zhao, Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 4680 DOI: 10.1039/C7NR08228B

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