title: Self-assembly of thienylenevinylene molecular wires to semiconducting gels with doped metallic conductivity.
abstract: Oligo(thienylenevinylene) (OTV) based gelators with high conductivity are reported. When compared to OTV1, OTV2 having an increased conjugation length forms relatively strong gels with a metallic conductivity of 4.8 S/cm upon doping which is the highest value reported for an organogelator. This new class of conducting gels is expected to be useful for organic electronics and photonics application, particularly for bulk heterojunction devices.
authors.affiliation: Photosciences and Photonics Group, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, Trivandrum 695019, India.
authors.forename: Seelam
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Prasanthkumar
authors.forename: Anesh
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gopal
authors.forename: Ayyappanpillai
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ajayaghosh