Abstract:
The performance of organic electronic devices not only depends on the chemical
structure of organic molecules but also on different hierarchies of their supramolecular
organization. Thus, the self-assembly of π-conjugated systems has been a topic of immense
interest for supramolecular chemists. In this context, self-assembly of wide variety of π-
conjugated molecules have been investigated in detail to control their supramolecular
organization. However, these self-assembled structures often showed poor device performance.
The first half of this thesis presents our attempts to improve the optoelectronic functions of
various self-assembled π-systems. We have mainly employed two strategies, namely,
amphiphilic and charge-transfer (CT) approaches, towards this objective. In this section of
introduction, we provide an overview on the design principles and optoelectronic functions of
various self-assembled π-systems based on amphiphilic and charge-transfer (CT) approaches
reported in literature.
