Multistep nucleation and growth mechanisms of organic crystals from amorphous solid states

Hongliang Chen; Mingliang Li; Zheyu Lu; Xiaoge Wang; Junsheng Yang; Zhe Wang; Fei Zhang; Chunhui Gu; Weining Zhang; Yujie Sun; Junliang Sun; Wenguang Zhu; Xuefeng Guo

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11887-2

Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Multistep nucleation and growth mechanisms of organic crystals from amorphous solid states

Hongliang Chen,
Mingliang Li,
Zheyu Lu,
Xiaoge Wang,
Junsheng Yang,
Zhe Wang,
Fei Zhang,
Chunhui Gu,
Weining Zhang,
Yujie Sun,
Junliang Sun,
Wenguang Zhu,
Xuefeng Guo

Affiliations

Hongliang Chen: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Mingliang Li: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Zheyu Lu: ICQD, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
Xiaoge Wang: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Junsheng Yang: State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
Zhe Wang: ICQD, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
Fei Zhang: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Chunhui Gu: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Weining Zhang: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Yujie Sun: State Key Laboratory of Membrane Biology, Biomedical Pioneering Innovation Center, School of Life Sciences, Peking University
Junliang Sun: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
Wenguang Zhu: ICQD, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory of Strongly-Coupled Quantum Matter Physics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, School of Physical Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China
Xuefeng Guo: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, State Key Laboratory for Structural Chemistry of Unstable and Stable Species, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11887-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Little attention has been paid to the fundamental mechanism of molecular self-assembly into crystallised films or wires on surfaces. Here the authors use real time in-situ scanning probe microscopy to monitor the growth trajectories of organic semiconducting films as they crystallize from an amorphous solid state under ambient conditions.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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