Self-Organized Perylene Diimide Nanofibers

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Abstract

A propeller-shaped perylene diimide trimer was synthesized and a simple evaporation method was used for the self-organization of trimer molecules into fluorescent nanofibers. The sizes of these fibers-from 4 to 150 nm in diameter-were measured by atomic force microscopy and can be controlled by adjusting the concentration of the initial solution. The aspect ratios (length/height) are around 500. The plane of the trimer was determined by polarized scanning confocal microscopy to be perpendicular to the axis of the fibers, in agreement with molecular mechanics calculations. UV/vis and NMR spectroscopies were used to monitor concentration-dependent pi-pi stacking in solution. Single-fiber fluorescence imaging and spectroscopy were performed using a total internal reflection fluorescence microscope equipped with a digital color camera and imaging CCD spectrometer. Strongly red-shifted fluorescence from these fibers indicates a high degree of electronic delocalization, and breaking up this delocalization by photobleaching blue-shifts the emission toward that of an isolated noninteracting molecule. The delocalization along these nanofibers and the ability to study the electronic structure using fluorescence make them potentially useful in nanoscale devices, such as field effect transistors and photoconductors.

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