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| author | Un, Hio-Ieng Orri, Jordi Ferrer Jacobs, Ian E. Fukui, Naoya Nishihara, Hiroshi Ducati, Caterina Stranks, Samuel D. Sirringhaus, Henning |
| author_facet | Un, Hio-Ieng Orri, Jordi Ferrer Jacobs, Ian E. Fukui, Naoya Nishihara, Hiroshi Ducati, Caterina Stranks, Samuel D. Sirringhaus, Henning |
| contents | Understanding growth evolution and thereby implementing precise microstructural tuning of two-dimensional (2D) conjugated coordination polymers (cCPs) is crucial to achieve efficient electronic conduction towards their full potential and to observe materials' intrinsic properties. However, fundamental understanding of how 2D cCPs films grow remains very limited. Here, we use copper-benzenehexathiol (Cu-BHT) cCP as a model system to unravel the growth evolution of layered films in liquid-liquid interfacial synthesis in order to identify strategies to achieve tuning of structure-property relationships. We find that thin films formed at the early stage of growth in 20 minutes facilitate smoother, denser, and horizontally oriented films, and thereby achieve higher electrical conductivity of > 3000 S/cm with a metallic temperature dependence down to 20 K. They also reveal signatures of quantum interference mediated weak antilocalisation and Kondo-like effect in magnetotransport at low temperatures. These phenomena are not observed when long reaction time was employed. Our findings offer a new perspective for the growth of dynamically reversible self-assemblies, that is different from the traditional paradigm of longer reaction time being associated with higher ordering and performance, and offer a platform to study spin-related transport properties of these materials with higher performance for advanced electronic, thermoelectric, and potential spintronic applications. |
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| spellingShingle | Controlling the growth of 2D conjugated coordination polymers to induce metallic and spin-dependent transport signatures Un, Hio-Ieng Orri, Jordi Ferrer Jacobs, Ian E. Fukui, Naoya Nishihara, Hiroshi Ducati, Caterina Stranks, Samuel D. Sirringhaus, Henning Materials Science Understanding growth evolution and thereby implementing precise microstructural tuning of two-dimensional (2D) conjugated coordination polymers (cCPs) is crucial to achieve efficient electronic conduction towards their full potential and to observe materials' intrinsic properties. However, fundamental understanding of how 2D cCPs films grow remains very limited. Here, we use copper-benzenehexathiol (Cu-BHT) cCP as a model system to unravel the growth evolution of layered films in liquid-liquid interfacial synthesis in order to identify strategies to achieve tuning of structure-property relationships. We find that thin films formed at the early stage of growth in 20 minutes facilitate smoother, denser, and horizontally oriented films, and thereby achieve higher electrical conductivity of > 3000 S/cm with a metallic temperature dependence down to 20 K. They also reveal signatures of quantum interference mediated weak antilocalisation and Kondo-like effect in magnetotransport at low temperatures. These phenomena are not observed when long reaction time was employed. Our findings offer a new perspective for the growth of dynamically reversible self-assemblies, that is different from the traditional paradigm of longer reaction time being associated with higher ordering and performance, and offer a platform to study spin-related transport properties of these materials with higher performance for advanced electronic, thermoelectric, and potential spintronic applications. |
| title | Controlling the growth of 2D conjugated coordination polymers to induce metallic and spin-dependent transport signatures |
| topic | Materials Science |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.00721 |