Chiroselective assembly of a chiral porphyrin-fullerene dyad: photoconductive nanofiber with a top-class ambipolar charge-carrier mobility.
Upon slow admission of MeOH, the enantiomerically pure form of chiral amphiphilic porphyrin-fullerene dyad 1 in CH(2)Cl(2) self-assembles at 25 degrees C into nanofibers with a built-in donor/acceptor heterojunction, while its racemic form, under identical conditions, self-assembles into submicrometer-sized spheres with a donor/acceptor arrangement essentially different from that in the nanofiber assembly. Although a cast film of the latter hardly shows a photoconducting profile on micrometer-gap electrodes, the former sample clearly displays photoconduction with an ambipolar charge-transporting character. The electron and hole mobilities under zero electric field, as estimated from time-of-flight profiles, are 0.14 and 0.10 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1), respectively, which are comparable to or even better than those reported for top-class organic materials with a donor/acceptor heterojunction.
Hizume
Yumi
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School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Tashiro
Kentaro
K
Charvet
Richard
R
Yamamoto
Yohei
Y
Saeki
Akinori
A
Seki
Shu
S
Aida
Takuzo
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