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ReviewCrystal growth & design2024

Leveling up Organic Semiconductors with Crystal Twisting.

St John Whittaker, Hengyu Zhou, Rochelle B Spencer, Yongfan Yang, Akash Tiwari, Justin Bendesky, Merritt McDowell, Pallavi Sundaram, Idalys Lozano, Shin Kim and 4 more

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Review in Crystal growth & design, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. On the importance of crystal structures for organic thin film transistors.Acta crystallographica. Section C, Structural chemistry · 2024
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  3. Polymer-Assisted Polymorph Transition in Melt-Processed Molecular Semiconductor Crystals.Chemistry of materials : a publication of the American Chemical Society · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors.

St John WhittakerMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6821-8127
Hengyu ZhouMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7913-2118
Rochelle B SpencerMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7158-1717
Yongfan YangMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3511-9733
Akash TiwariMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.
Justin BendeskyMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.
Merritt McDowellMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8860-2766
Pallavi SundaramMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.
Idalys LozanoMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0004-1169-2257
Shin KimMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.
Zhihua AnMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5427-0346
Alexander G ShtukenbergMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5590-4758
Bart KahrMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7005-4464
Stephanie S LeeMolecular Design Institute, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, New York 10003, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0964-6353

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The performance of crystalline organic semiconductors depends on the solid-state structure, especially the orientation of the conjugated components with respect to device platforms. Often, crystals can be engineered by modifying chromophore substituents through synthesis. Meanwhile, dissymetry is necessary for high-tech applications like chiral sensing, optical telecommunications, and data storage. The synthesis of dissymmetric molecules is a labor-intensive exercise that might be undermined because common processing methods offer little control over orientation. Crystal twisting has emerged as a generalizable method for processing organic semiconductors and offers unique advantages, such as patterning of physical and chemical properties and chirality that arises from mesoscale twisting. The precession of crystal orientations can enrich performance because achiral molecules in achiral space groups suddenly become candidates for the aforementioned technologies that require dissymetry.

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PMCPMC10797633

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