Sun Meng-Jia, Zhang Xinliang, Zhong Yu-Wu, Zhan Chuanlang, Yao Jiannian
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Photochemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China.
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100049, China.
Inorg Chem. 2016 Dec 19;55(24):13007-13013. doi: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b02532. Epub 2016 Dec 6.
A donor-acceptor-structured diruthenium complex, 1(PF), that contains an electron-deficient bridging ligand and electron-rich distal diarylamines modified with long aliphatic chains has been synthesized. By varying the solvent environments and assembly conditions, we obtained three different self-assembled nanostructures of 1(PF), including zero-dimensional nanospheres, one-dimensional nanofibers, and thin films with interconnected nanowire networks. These structures were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, dynamic light scattering, X-ray diffraction, and atomic force microscopy (AFM) analysis. Conductive AFM analysis shows that the nanowire networks exhibit a high conductivity of 0.023 S/cm and an enhanced photoconductivity of 0.59 S/cm under visible light irradiation.
