Nature Communications (Oct 2018)

Complex assembly from planar and twisted π-conjugated molecules towards alloy helices and core-shell structures

  • Yilong Lei,
  • Yanqiu Sun,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Hongyang Zhang,
  • Haihua Zhang,
  • Zhengong Meng,
  • Wai-Yeung Wong,
  • Jiannian Yao,
  • Hongbing Fu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06489-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Manipulating the assembly of π-conjugated organic molecules into alloys to control composition and shape remains a largely unsolved problem. Here the authors show the co-assembly of two structurally similar organic semiconductors into two-component helices by control of their growth kinetics as well as the molar ratio of the building blocks.