Supporting Information for:
Supramolecular Organogels Based on Perylenetetracarboxylic
Diimide Trimers Linked with Benzenetricarboxylate
Chengguang Gao,a Lin Xue,b Yuhan Chen,a and Xiyou Li*,a
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Key Laboratory of Colloid and Interface Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Department of
Chemistry, Shandong University, Jinan, China 250100. b Environmental Protection Bureau of
Laiwu City, Laiwu, China, 271100
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Figure S1. (A) Absorption spectra of trimer 2 in chloroform (5  10-7 mol/L) at
different temperatures. (B) Fluorescence quantum yields of timer 2 in chloroform (5 
10-7 mol/L) at different temperatures. This figure shows that the temperature rising
does not bring significant changes to the absorption and fluorescence spectra of trimer
2 in chloroform.
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Figure S2. The absorption spectra of trimer 1 (a) (510-6 mol/L) and trimer 2
(310-6 mol/L) in chloroform at different temperatures. The spectra revealed that the
aggregation of both trimer 1 and 2 in a relative more concentrated solution are
reversible and can be broken at elevated temperatures.
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Figure S3. Normalized concentration dependent absorption spectra of trimer 2 in
chloroform. The inset shows the peak intensity ratio of A0-1 / A0-0. This figure
revealed that the aggregation of timer 2 in chloroform is concentration dependent.
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Figure S4. The fluorescence spectra and fluorescence quantum yields (inset) of trimer
1 (a) and 2 (b) in chloroform (5  10-6 mol/L) at different temperatures. This figure
shows that the aggregation of both trimer 1 and 2 are temperature dependent.
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Figure S5. Normalized absorption spectra of trimer 2 in MCH at different
concentrations. It reveals that timer 2 can form stable aggregates in MCH at much
diluted solution.
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Figure S6. IR spectrum of the dried gel of trimer 2. The bands at about 3500 cm-1
suggest the presence of hydrogen bonding.
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