title: Effect of peripheral hydrophobic alkoxy substitution on the organic field effect transistor performance of amphiphilic tris(phthalocyaninato) europium triple-decker complexes.
abstract: A series of four amphiphilic heteroleptic tris(phthalocyaninato) europium complexes with different lengths of hydrophobic alkoxy substituents on one outer phthalocyanine ligand [Pc(15C5)4]Eu[Pc(15C5)4]Eu[Pc(OCnH(2n+1))8] (n = 4, 6, 10,12) (1, 2, 4, and 5) was designed and prepared. Their film forming and organic field effect transistor properties have been systematically studied in comparison with analogous [Pc(15C5)4]Eu[Pc(15C5)4]Eu[Pc(OC8H17)8] (3). Experimental results showed that all these typical amphiphilic sandwich triple-decker molecules have been fabricated into highly ordered films by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique, which displays carrier mobility in the direction parallel to the aromatic phthalocyanine rings in the range of 0.0032-0.60 cm2 V(-1) s(-1) depending on the length of the hydrophobic alkoxy substituents. This is rationalized on the basis of comparative morphology analysis results of the LB films by the atomic force microscopy technique.
authors.affiliation: Key Lab for Colloid and Interface Chemistry, Ministry of Education, Department of Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
authors.forename: Yanli
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Renjie
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Rongming
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Pan
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ma
authors.forename: Shuai
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Yingning
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Xiyou
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Jianzhuang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jiang