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Supramolecular electronics

Meshing organic nanowires

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Photogenerated charge carriers from hundreds of self-assembled nanowires are harnessed to make a functional photovoltaic device.

Nanowires of Ï€-conjugated organic molecules have been the main focus of research in the field of supramolecular electronics1. A variety of chemical structures can self-assemble into Ï€-conjugated nanowires with promising electronic properties — carrier generation and propagation — but integrating such nanowires in a device has remained at a rather basic level. Usually, only a handful of Ï€-conjugated nanowires, out of the thousands that are synthesized, can be connected in a device2. Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, Paolo Samorì, Emanuele Orgiu and colleagues at the University of Strasbourg, France and the University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia, now report a photovoltaic device design in which hundreds of organic nanowires can be integrated3.

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Figure 1: Device designs.

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  1. Ankit Jain and Subi J. George are at the New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore-560064, India,

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Jain, A., George, S. Meshing organic nanowires. Nature Nanotech 11, 843–844 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.136

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