Self-assembled aggregates of amphiphilic perylene diimide-based semiconductor molecules: effect of morphology on conductivity.

Abstract Two amphiphilic perylenetetracarboxylic diimide derivatives modified with different side chains at imide nitrogen, N- n -hexyl-N′-(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,7-di(4′-t-butyl)phenoxy-perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide ( PDI 1 ) and N,N′-di(2-hydroxyethyl)-1,7-di(4′-t-butyl)phenoxy-perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic diimide ( PDI 2 ), were fabricated into organic nanostructures via solution-phase self-assembly. Their self-assembling properties in methanol and n -hexane have been comparatively studied by electronic absorption, fluorescence, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The morphologies and structures of the self-assemblies were examined by scanning electronic micr…