Vapor deposition of a nonmesogen prepares highly structured organic glasses

Journal Article · 16 September 2019 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908445116 · OSTI ID:1566219

Bishop, Camille  ^[1]; Thelen, Jacob L. ^[2]; Gann, Eliot ^[2]; Toney, Michael F.  ^[3]; Yu, Lian ^[4]; DeLongchamp, Dean M. ^[2]; Ediger, M. D. ^[1]

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1. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706,
2. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD 20899,
3. Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA 94025,
4. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53706,, School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI 53705

Significance Organic glasses are useful, versatile materials for current and future organic electronic technologies. They are nonequilibrium materials, so a single-component system can be processed in different ways to create a wide range of solids with diverse structural and optical properties. In this work, we use physical vapor deposition to prepare glasses with structure similar to that of an aligned smectic liquid crystal from a molecule that does not have any liquid crystal phases. This shows the potential to create highly structured glasses from a wide range of molecules.

• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
• Grant/Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 1566219
• Journal Information: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Journal Name: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Vol. 116 Journal Issue: 43; ISSN 0027-8424
• Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of SciencesCopyright Statement
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English