ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the organic conductors that belong to two families: the charge-transfer salts and the mixed-valence salts. It describes the different synthetic strategies leading to nanoparticles of molecule-based conductors. Polymers are widely used to stabilize and/or organize metal nanoparticles. Ionic species such as ionic liquids containing 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium, that is, BMIM+ cation or long-alkyl chains quaternary ammonium salts were most often used as growth controlling agents for the preparation of molecule-based conductors as nanoparticles. The preparation of nanoparticles of molecule-based conductors in the presence of an imidazolium-based ionic liquid was conducted either by a chemical or by an electrochemical process. Stirring the medium prevented the formation of large single crystals, increased the amount of ionic liquid at the electrode vicinity, and favored the growth control of the material as nanoparticles. The neutral amphiphilic molecules explored for nanoparticles growth control did not react with the tetrathiafulvalene (TTF)-based precursor.
