Abstract

AbstractA strategy leading to the formation of conducting LB films without any doping treatment is investigated. The method consists of mixing, within the same layer, semi‐amphiphilic and amphiphilic derivatives of the same electroactive nucleus (here Tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ)). LB films obtained in this way with the sulphonium TCNQ salt as the semi‐amphiphilic molecule and the octadecyl TCNQ as the amphiphilic one in the molecular ratio 1 to 2, are of high optical quality. Such films show a d.c. conductivity which is almost constant with variation in the number of layers, down to one bilayer. Preliminary results obtained by changing the nature of the counterion in the semi‐amphiphilic molecule are in good agreement with those of the sulphonium TCNQ‐octadecyl TCNQ0.

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