abstract
Electroactive organic molecules have received a lot of attention in the field of electronics because of their fascinating electronic properties, easy functionalization and potential low cost towards their implementation in electronic devices. In recent years, electroactive organic molecules have also emerged as promising building blocks for the design and construction of crystalline porous frameworks such as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent-organic frameworks (COFs) for applications in electronics. Such porous materials present certain additional advantages such as, for example, an immense structural and functional versatility, combination of porosity with multiple electronic properties and the possibility of tuning their physical properties by post-synthetic modifications. In this Review, we summarize the main electroactive organic building blocks used in the past few years for the design and construction of functional porous materials (MOFs and COFs) for electronics with special emphasis on their electronic structure and function relationships. The different building blocks have been classified based on the electronic nature and main function of the resulting porous frameworks. The design and synthesis of novel electroactive organic molecules is encouraged towards the construction of functional porous frameworks exhibiting new functions and applications in electronics.
keywords
TUNABLE ELECTRICAL-CONDUCTIVITY; FIELD-EFFECT TRANSISTORS; SOLAR FUEL PRODUCTION; ORIENTED THIN-FILMS; NAPHTHALENE DIIMIDE; CHARGE-TRANSFER; SMALL MOLECULES; BASE CHEMISTRY; RADICAL-ANION; METAL
subject category
Chemistry
authors
Souto, M; Strutynski, K; Melle-Franco, M; Rocha, J
our authors
Groups
G1 - Porous Materials and Nanosystems
G3 - Electrochemical Materials, Interfaces and Coatings
G6 - Virtual Materials and Artificial Intelligence
acknowledgements
This work was developed within the scope of the project CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials, UIDB/50011/2020 and UIDP/50011/2020, financed by national funds through the FCT/MEC and when appropriate co-financed by FEDER under the PT2020 Partnership Agreement. In addition, MMF acknowledges support from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the project IF/00894/2015. We thank Deanna D'Alessandro (The University of Sidney) for very useful discussion and suggestions. We thank Manuel Garcia for his help with Revit software.