A Facile Method to Preparation of Amphiphilic Perylene Tetracarboxylic Diimide/ZnS Hybrid Nanocomposites and Improved Semiconducting Property

Abstract:

A self-assembled film of an amphiphilic perylene tetracarboxylic diimide derivative (N-hexane-N'-(1-phenyl-4-aminoethanol)-1,7-di (4-tert-butylphenoxy) perylene-3,4;9,10-tetracarboxylate diimide, HH-PDI) has been used as the organic template to produce the first example of monodispersed nanoparticles of HH-PDI/ZnS composites. The HH-PDI pure film and HH-PDI/ZnS nanocomposites were characterized by UV-vis absorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and current-voltage (I-V) measurements. Experimental results revealed the film crystallinity and general molecular order for HH-PDI molecules in the nanocomposites are improved effectively in comparison with those in the pure film due to the introduction of ZnS nanocrystals. The electrical conductivity of the HH-PDI/ZnS nanocomposites (6.6×10^-5 S cm^-1) is more than ca. 2 order of magnitude higher than that of (3.6×10^-7 S cm^-1). The present result provides an efficient way to improve the performance of organic semiconductors through introducing inorganic semiconducting nanocrystals.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 936)
• Pages: 295-299
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.936.295
• Online since: June 2014
• Authors: Jin Gang Song, Hong Yan Wang, Nian Shuai An, Yan Li Chen*
• Keywords: HH-PDI, Nanocomposite, Semiconducting Property, ZnS

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