title: Tunable Self-Assembly and Morphology-Dependent Photoconductivity of a Donor-Acceptor-Structured Diruthenium Complex.
abstract: A donor-acceptor-structured diruthenium complex, 1(PF6)4, that contains an electron-deficient bridging ligand and electron-rich distal diarylamines modified with long aliphatic chains has been synthesized. By varying the solvent environments and assembly conditions, we obtained three different self-assembled nanostructures of 1(PF6)4, including zero-dimensional nanospheres, one-dimensional nanofibers, and thin films with interconnected nanowire networks. These structures were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, X-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) analysis. Conductive AFM analysis shows that the nanowire networks exhibit a high conductivity of 0.023 S/cm and an enhanced photoconductivity of 0.59 S/cm under visible light irradiation.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Meng-Jia
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Xinliang
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Yu-Wu
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0712-0374
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Zhong
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Chuanlang
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5127-0973
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Zhan
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.|University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
authors.forename: Jiannian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yao