Issue 16, 2021

What is special about silicon in functionalised organic semiconductors?

Abstract

A carbon side-chain analogue to the high-performance organic semiconductor triethylsilylethynyl difluoroanthradithiophene has been synthesised and characterized. Atomic substitution of carbon for silicon results in subtle changes to opto-electronic properties, which are rationalised by density functional theory and balance of electron donating and withdrawing effects. Larger differences are observed in photostability and solid-state packing of the new material in comparison to known silicon and germanium derivatives. Comparison of the group 14 elements teaches us about the newly synthesised system, but also how the silylethynyl substituents used for the last two decades contribute to successful employment of functionalised polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons as organic semiconductors.

Graphical abstract: What is special about silicon in functionalised organic semiconductors?

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Article type
Paper
Submitted
18 5 2021
Accepted
13 7 2021
First published
13 7 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Mater. Adv., 2021,2, 5415-5421

What is special about silicon in functionalised organic semiconductors?

K. J. Thorley, M. Benford, Y. Song, S. R. Parkin, C. Risko and J. E. Anthony, Mater. Adv., 2021, 2, 5415 DOI: 10.1039/D1MA00447F

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