Article: Coherence in Polycrystalline Thin Films of Twisted Molecular Crystals.
Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society
2024 Volume 36, Issue 2, Page(s) 881–891
Abstract: Helicoidal crystallites in rhythmically banded spherulites manifest spectacular optical patterns in small molecules and polymers. It is shown that concentric optical bands indicating crystallographic orientations typically lose coherence (in-phase ... ...
| Abstract | Helicoidal crystallites in rhythmically banded spherulites manifest spectacular optical patterns in small molecules and polymers. It is shown that concentric optical bands indicating crystallographic orientations typically lose coherence (in-phase twisting) with growth from the center of nucleation. Here, coherence is shown to increase as the twist period decreases for seven molecular crystals grown from the melt. This dependence was correlated to crystallite fiber thickness and length, as well as crystallite branching frequency, a parameter that was extracted from scanning electron micrographs, and supported by numerical simulations. Hole mobilities for 2,5-didodecyl-3,6-di(thiophen-2-yl)pyrrolo[3,4-c]pyrrole-1,4(2H,5H)-dione (DPP-C12) measured by using organic field-effect transistors demonstrated that more incoherent boundaries between optical bands in spherulites lead to higher charge transport for films with the same twist period. This was rationalized by combining our growth model with electrodynamic simulations. This work illustrates the emergence of complexity in crystallization processes (spherulite formation) that arises in the extra variable of helicoidal radial twisting. The details of the patterns analyzed here link the added complexity in crystal growth to the electronic and optical properties of the thin films. |
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| Language | English |
| Publishing date | 2024-01-04 |
| Publishing country | United States |
| Document type | Journal Article |
| ZDB-ID | 1500399-1 |
| ISSN | 1520-5002 ; 0897-4756 |
| ISSN (online) | 1520-5002 |
| ISSN | 0897-4756 |
| DOI | 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c02740 |
| Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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