Towards high charge-carrier mobilities by rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics

Nature Materials

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 421-426

  Feng, Xinliang ^a   Marcon, Valentina ^a   Pisula, Wojciech ^a,d   Hansen, Michael Ryan ^a   Kirkpatrick, James ^b   Grozema, Ferdinand ^c   Andrienko, Denis ^a   Kremer, Kurt ^a   Müllen, Klaus ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR POLYMER RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d EVONIK DEGUSSA GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFECTS; HYDROPHILICITY; LIQUID CRYSTALS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULES; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL); X RAY SCATTERING;

CHARGE TRANSPORTING; DISCOTIC LIQUID CRYSTAL; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; HYDROPHILIC/HYDROPHOBIC; QUANTUM-CHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; SYMMETRIC MOLECULES; THREE-FOLD SYMMETRY; TIME-RESOLVED MICROWAVE CONDUCTIVITIES;

CARRIER MOBILITY;

EID: 67349254532     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2427     Document Type: Article

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