With minimal defects, few grain boundaries,
and high-performance
optoelectronic characteristics, organic semiconductor nanocrystals
(OSNCs) have emerged as promising solutions for miniaturized organic
devices and related optoelectronic circuits. To realize this, it is
crucial that the OSNCs should possess desired morphologies and unique
optoelectronic attributions. After the planar π-conjugated building
blocks, the steric bulky molecules with a three-dimensional (3D) framework
enable the multiscale self-assembly architectures and superior charge
storage properties, as well as high-performance optoelectronic applications,
such as organic transistor memory, organic light-emitting diodes,
organic lasers and organic photovoltaic cells. However, this type
of 3D steric bulky molecule-based OSNCs are not easily to get, and
molecular design principles must be developed. In this Review, recent
advances in the efficient theories that have arose in building varied
nanoarchitectures of 3D steric bulky molecule-based OSNCs, especially
the 2D and 3D in morphology, are highlighted. The obtained steric
OSNCs exhibited rich optoelectronic properties, including the charge
storage, ion transmission, crystallization-enhanced emission, and
so on. Further architectural optimization of the steric OSNCs to cater
for optoelectronic device based on them is necessary to strive to
develop this research direction.