Issue 1, 2022

An unusual self-assembling columnar mesogen prepared by tethering a planar naphthalenediimide acceptor to bent phenothiazine donors

Abstract

We describe a synthetic approach to achieving columnar stacked mesogens of aromatic electron donors (D) and acceptors (A) as an orthogonal strategy to segregate charge carrying channels in films. An unusual columnar liquid crystalline mesogen was designed, such that a planar naphthalenediimide acceptor flanked by two bent-shaped phenothiazine donor moieties self-assembled into a liquid crystalline phase. The use of different shapes in the D–A–D arrangement could allow segregated charge transport columns, thus limiting both intercolumnar and intramolecular D–A interactions. In solution, the mesogen showed independent optical and electronic properties of its constituent D and A components and annealed films of the columnar liquid crystalline material showed a near doubling of photocurrent generation compared to amorphousfilms.

Graphical abstract: An unusual self-assembling columnar mesogen prepared by tethering a planar naphthalenediimide acceptor to bent phenothiazine donors

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 May 2021
Accepted
27 Oct 2021
First published
04 Nov 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2022,3, 328-336

An unusual self-assembling columnar mesogen prepared by tethering a planar naphthalenediimide acceptor to bent phenothiazine donors

K. D. Thériault, C. L. Radford, G. P. Nagabhushana, D. T. Hogan, V. E. Williams, T. L. Kelly and T. C. Sutherland, Mater. Adv., 2022, 3, 328 DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00452B

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