Fullerene nanowires as a versatile platform for organic electronics

Yuta Maeyoshi; Akinori Saeki; Shotaro Suwa; Masaaki Omichi; Hiromi Marui; Atsushi Asano; Satoshi Tsukuda; Masaki Sugimoto; Akihiro Kishimura; Kazunori Kataoka; Shu Seki

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Fullerene nanowires as a versatile platform for organic electronics

Yuta Maeyoshi, Akinori Saeki, Shotaro Suwa, Masaaki Omichi, Hiromi Marui, Atsushi Asano, Satoshi Tsukuda, Masaki Sugimoto, Akihiro Kishimura, Kazunori Kataoka, Shu Seki

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The development of organic semiconducting nanowires that act as charge carrier transport pathways in flexible and lightweight nanoelectronics is a major scientific challenge. We report on the fabrication of fullerene nanowires that is universally applicable to its derivatives (pristine C ₆₀, methanofullerenes of C ₆₁ and C ₇₁, and indene C ₆₀ bis-adduct), realized by the single particle nanofabrication technique (SPNT). Nanowires with radii of 811 nmwere formed via a chain polymerization reaction induced by a high-energy ion beam. Fabrication of a poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT): [6,6]-phenyl C ₆₁ butyric acid methyl ester (PC ₆₁BM) bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic cell including PC ₆₁BM nanowires with precisely-controlled length and density demonstrates how application of this methodology can improve the power conversion efficiency of these inverted cells. The proposed technique provides a versatile platform for the fabrication of continuous and uniform n-type fullerene nanowires towards a wide range of organic electronics applications.

Original language	English
Article number	600
Journal	Scientific reports
Volume	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/srep00600
Publication status	Published - 2012
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