Self-Assembled 1D-Nanowire Lasers of Perylenediimides

Zhenyi Yu; Yishi Wu; Haihua Zhang; Xuedong Wang; Jianwei Chen; Jiannian Yao; Hongbing Fu

doi:10.1002/cphc.201600741

Self-Assembled 1D-Nanowire Lasers of Perylenediimides

Chemphyschem. 2016 Oct 18;17(20):3160-3164. doi: 10.1002/cphc.201600741. Epub 2016 Aug 24.

Authors

Zhenyi Yu^{1

2}, Yishi Wu³, Haihua Zhang¹, Xuedong Wang^{1

2}, Jianwei Chen^{1

2}, Jiannian Yao^{1

4

5}, Hongbing Fu^{6

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.
² Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, P. R. China.
³ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. yswu@iccas.ac.cn.
⁴ Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, P.R. China.
⁵ Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, People's Republic of China.
⁶ Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China. hongbing.fu@iccas.ac.cn.
⁷ Beijing Key Laboratory for Optical Materials and Photonic Devices, Department of Chemistry Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, P.R. China. hongbing.fu@iccas.ac.cn.
⁸ Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering, Tianjin, 300072, People's Republic of China. hongbing.fu@iccas.ac.cn.

PMID: 27553529
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201600741

Abstract

The 1D nanostructures of perylenediimides (PDIs) have been readily obtained owing to strong cofacial π-π stacking interactions, which, however, subsequently render PDIs weakly emissive in the solid state. Therefore, organic solid-state lasers based on 1D nanostructures of PDIs have not been achieved yet. Herein, we prepared 1D-nanowires of N,N'-bis(1-ethylpropyl)-2,5,8,11-tetrakis(o-methylphenyl)-perylene-3,4:9,10-tetracarboxylic acid diimide (mp-PDI), which stack into a loosely J-type arrangement. J-aggregation leads to a solid-state photoluminescence (PL) efficiency φ>18 % and the nanowires of mp-PDI exhibit excellent Fabry-Perot (FP) mode laser action.

Keywords: J-aggregation; lasers; nanophotonics; nanowires; perylene diimide.