Facile One‐Step Growth and Patterning of Aligned Squaraine Nanowires via Evaporation‐Induced Self‐Assembly

Single-crystal squaraine dye nanowires are prepared on solid substrates by solvent evaporation. The nanowires can self-assemble into aligned arrays and patterns on substrates in parallel stripes. This simple one-step method for growth and patterning of aligned organic nanostructures would facilitate easy and low-cost fabrication of organic devices with one-dimensional nanostructures, especially for the fabrication of parallel arrays of devices. Supporting information for this article is available on the WWW under http://www.wiley-vch.de/contents/jc_2089/2008/adma200703142_s.pdf or from the author. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.