Book chapter
Hydrogen-bonded Semiconductor Co-crystals
Co-crystals: Preparation, Characterization and Applications, pp.285-301
Royal Society of Chemistry
2018
DOI: 10.1039/9781788012874-00285
Abstract
Organic semiconductor materials are used in a variety of technologically important applications such as optoelectronic devices and thin-film transistors. The building blocks of organic semiconductors are often based on π-conjugated molecules. However, not all π-rich molecules exhibit favorable conductivities due to poor overlap between neighboring molecules. We discuss in this chapter our work to utilize crystal engineering strategies to direct the solid-state packing of organic semiconductor molecules and achieve favorable π–π stacking arrangements in hydrogen-bonded solids in the form of co-crystals. Co-crystal formers are employed to support face-to-face stacking of small-molecule organic semiconductor units (e.g. thiophenes). We also describe how co-crystallization can be used to direct solid-state reactions involving organic semiconductor molecules. Approaches involving metal-organic complexes to achieve conductivity are also discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Hydrogen-bonded Semiconductor Co-crystals
- Creators
- Kristin M. HutchinsLeonard R. MacGillivray
- Contributors
- Christer B AakeröyAbhijeet S Sinha
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Co-crystals: Preparation, Characterization and Applications, pp.285-301
- Publisher
- Royal Society of Chemistry; Cambridge
- DOI
- 10.1039/9781788012874-00285
- Date published
- 2018
- Academic Unit
- Chemistry; Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics
- Record Identifier
- 9984230423502771
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