Issue 27, 2019

Thermal-assisted self-assembly: a self-adaptive strategy towards large-area uniaxial organic single-crystalline microribbon arrays

Abstract

Uniaxial organic single-crystalline microribbon arrays (OSCMAs) are a class of highly desirable materials for a variety of optoelectronic applications due to their favorable molecular orientations along the long axes of the ribbons. Up to now, great endeavors have been made and several solution-processing techniques have been proposed to grow uniaxial OSCMAs. However, the crystal growth parameters are tuned non-synergistically in these techniques, resulting in challenging growth condition control. Herein, we report a self-adaptive thermal-assisted self-assembly (TASA) strategy to realize the synergistic control of key crystal growth parameters for the facile yet controllable production of centimeter-sized uniaxial OSCMAs from the solution. In the TASA strategy, key crystal growth parameters, such as solvent evaporation, nucleation and crystal growth, are controlled synergistically by the temperature gradient. As a result, the TASA strategy is self-adaptive, and it shows a large temperature and concentration tolerance. Organic phototransistors (OPTs) based on the uniaxial OSCMAs produced by the TASA strategy exhibit an unprecedented photosensitivity of 1.36 × 108, a high responsivity of 845 A W−1 and a high detectivity of 1.98 × 1015 Jones.

Graphical abstract: Thermal-assisted self-assembly: a self-adaptive strategy towards large-area uniaxial organic single-crystalline microribbon arrays

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Article information

Article type
Communication
Submitted
12 Mai 2019
Accepted
13 Jun 2019
First published
14 Jun 2019

Nanoscale, 2019,11, 12781-12787

Thermal-assisted self-assembly: a self-adaptive strategy towards large-area uniaxial organic single-crystalline microribbon arrays

Y. Zhang, X. Zhu, S. Yang, F. Zhai, F. Zhang, Z. Niu, Y. Feng, W. Feng, X. Zhang, L. Li, R. Li and W. Hu, Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 12781 DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04037D

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