Triphenylamine- and triazine-containing hydrogen bonded complexes: liquid crystalline supramolecular semiconductors

Despite the fact that triphenylamine derivatives have been widely explored as hole-transporting materials, studies on charge transport properties in the liquid crystal phase have been overlooked. Here, it is reported that triphenylamine liquid crystals can attain very high hole mobility values in a...

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Autores: Feringan, Beatriz, Termine, Roberto, Golemme, Attilio, Granadino-Roldan, Jose M., Navarro, Amparo, Gimenez, Raquel, Sierra, Teresa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión borrador
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Jaén
Repositorio:RUJA. Repositorio Institucional de la Producción Científica de la Universidad de Jaén
OAI Identifier:oai:ruja.ujaen.es:10953/7134
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10953/7134
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Discotic Liquid Crystals
Semiconductors
Density Functional Theory
Charge transport
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Sumario:Despite the fact that triphenylamine derivatives have been widely explored as hole-transporting materials, studies on charge transport properties in the liquid crystal phase have been overlooked. Here, it is reported that triphenylamine liquid crystals can attain very high hole mobility values in a hexagonal columnar mesophase, up to m E 5 cm2 V-1 s-1. The columnar liquid crystalline phase was obtained by a proper design of a supramolecular mesogen, and this is unprecedented for triphenylamine liquid crystals. In fact, the supramolecules were formed by hydrogen-bonded 1 : 3 complexes of a star-shaped triazine core and three triphenylamine peripheral units. The resulting hexagonal columnar mesophase acts as a successful scaffold that confines TPA units at the periphery of columns. Challenging DFT theoretical investigations into a model based on such supramolecular systems involving a large number of atoms were undertaken to explore the stability and geometry of the complexes and their electronic properties.