TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pratihar, Pampa
A1  - Ghosh, Suhrit
A1  - Stepanenko, Vladimir
A1  - Patwardhan, Sameer
A1  - Grozema, Ferdinand C.
A1  - Siebbeles, Laurens D. A.
A1  - Würthner, Frank
T1  - Self-assembly and semiconductivity of an oligothiophene supergelator
N2  - A bis(trialkoxybenzamide)-functionalized quaterthiophene derivative was synthesized and its self-assembly properties in solution were studied. In non-polar solvents such as cyclohexane, this quaterthiophene π-system formed fibril aggregates with an H-type molecular arrangement due to synergistic effect of hydrogen bonding and π-stacking. The self-assembled fibres were found to gelate numerous organic solvents of diverse polarity. The charge transport ability of such elongated fibres of quaterthiophene π-system was explored by the pulse radiolysis time resolved microwave conductivity (PR-TRMC) technique and moderate mobility values were obtained. Furthermore, initial AFM and UV-vis spectroscopic studies of a mixture of our electron-rich quaterthiophene derivative with the electron acceptor [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) revealed a nanoscale segregated assembly of the individual building blocks in the blend.
KW  - Organische Chemie
KW  - charge transport; hydrogen bonding; oligothiophene; organogel; self-assembly
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-67817
ER  -