A synergistic approach to enhance charge‐carrier transport in organic semiconductors along with facile solution processing and high performance is crucial for the advancement of organic electronics. The floating film transfer method (FTM) is used as a facile and cost‐effective method for the fabrication of large‐scale, uniform, highly oriented poly[2,5‐bis(3‐tetradecylthiophen‐2‐yl)thieno[3,2‐b]thiophene] (pBTTT C‐14) films under ambient conditions. Utilization of such oriented films as the active semiconducting layer in organic field‐effect transistors (OFETs) results in highly anisotropic charge‐carrier transport. Highly oriented, FTM‐processed pBTTT C‐14 thin films are characterized by polarized electronic absorption and Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, out‐of‐plane X‐ray diffraction, and grazing incident X‐ray diffraction (GIXD) measurements. The GIXD data indicate an edge‐on orientation, which is highly desirable for planar devices such as OFETs. OFETs built using the oriented films show a mobility anisotropy of 10 and the highest mobility is 1.24 cm2 V−1 s−1 along the backbone orientation, which is among the highest value reported for this class of materials using a similar device configuration.

The synthesis and characterisation of novel bent-core and hockey-stick like liquid crystals from EDOT are reported. All the compounds exhibit an enantiotropic mesophase with a wide temperature range. These mesogens show good photophysical and nonlinear optical properties.

Novel phenazine-fused triphenylene discotic liquid crystals (DLCs) tethered with alkanethiols and alkoxy chains are synthesized. The condensation of 4,5-dibromobenzene-1,2diamine with triphenylene-1,2-diquinone discotic core, followed by the reaction with alkanethiols gives heterocyclic phenazinefused triphenylene based DLCs. The intermediate dibromosubstituted phenazine and final alkanethiol substituted phenazine-fused triphenylene derivatives exhibit a wide range of stable enantiotropic hexagonal columnar phase, which was characterised by polarized optical microscopy (POM), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) studies. We have also investigated the photophysical properties of all phenazine compounds using dilute solution of anhydrous chloroform. The charge carrier mobility was measured for one representative compound by time of flight method which revealed that phenazine-fused triphenylene discotic mesogen exhibits p-type (hole) mobility of the order of 10 À4 cm 2 V À1 s À1 . The novel mesogens reported here present a wide temperature stability with good charge mobility and optical properties. These mesogens have shown potential applications for solar cells, sensors, organic light emitting diodes and other electrooptical device applications.[a] A.

This article primarily summarizes recent advancement in the field of discotic liquid crystal (DLC) nanocomposites. Discotic liquid crystals are nanostructured materials, usually 2 to 6 nm size and have been recognized as organic semiconducting materials. Recently, it has been observed that the dispersion of small concentration of various functionalized zero-, one- and two-dimensional nanomaterials in the supramolecular order of mesophases of DLCs imparts negligible impact on liquid crystalline properties but enhances their thermal, supramolecular and electronic properties. Synthesis, characterization and dispersion of various nanoparticles in different discotics are presented.

Herein, we report the synthesis of oleylamine capped CdS nanowires (NWs) and we have dispersed a small optimized amount of these NWs in the Colh phase of a recently synthesized...