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Farka D, Ciganek M, Veselý D, Kalina L, Krajčovič J. Epitaxial Guidance of Adamantyl-Substituted Polythiophenes by Self-Assembled Monolayers. ACS OMEGA 2024; 9:38733-38742. [PMID: 39310142 PMCID: PMC11411674 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c04616] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2024] [Revised: 08/20/2024] [Accepted: 08/26/2024] [Indexed: 09/25/2024]
Abstract
The anisotropic nature of charge transport through organic materials requires high control over the self-assembly of the organic materials. This is particularly so for conductive polymers, where transport occurs mainly along the polymers' backbone. Herein, we demonstrate the use of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) to influence the self-assembly of poly(3-adamantylmethylthiophene). We employ two different SAMs, which interact with either the adamantyl- or the thiophene-functionality, respectively, and acquire distinct topologies as compared to the unmodified Au(111) surface. We compare these results with unmodified glass and mica (muscovite) surfaces, which are typically employed in the field of optoelectronics. We prove the usefulness and applicability of epitaxial effects and adamantyl substituents for organic electronics. This presents a viable way toward improved electronic performance for the field as a whole.
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- Dominik Farka
- Institute
of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry (IOCB), Czech Academy of Sciences, Flemingovo Náměstí 2, Prague 160 00, Czech Republic
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology
(BUT), Purkyňova
118, Brno CZ-612 00, Czech Republic
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology
(BUT), Purkyňova
118, Brno CZ-612 00, Czech Republic
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology
(BUT), Purkyňova
118, Brno CZ-612 00, Czech Republic
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- Faculty
of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology
(BUT), Purkyňova
118, Brno CZ-612 00, Czech Republic
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Zapata-Arteaga O, Perevedentsev A, Prete M, Busato S, Floris PS, Asatryan J, Rurali R, Martín J, Campoy-Quiles M. A Universal, Highly Stable Dopant System for Organic Semiconductors Based on Lewis-Paired Dopant Complexes. ACS ENERGY LETTERS 2024; 9:3567-3577. [PMID: 39022671 PMCID: PMC11249766 DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.4c01278] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2024] [Revised: 06/13/2024] [Accepted: 06/25/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
Abstract
Chemical doping of organic semiconductors is an essential enabler for applications in electronic and energy-conversion devices such as thermoelectrics. Here, Lewis-paired complexes are advanced as high-performance dopants that address all the principal drawbacks of conventional dopants in terms of limited electrical conductivity, thermal stability, and generality. The study focuses on the Lewis acid B(C6F5)3 (BCF) and 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ) bearing Lewis-basic -CN groups. Due to its high electron affinity, BCF:F4TCNQ dopes an exceptionally wide range of organic semiconductors, over 20 of which are investigated. Complex activation and microstructure control lead to conductivities for poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) exceeding 300 and 900 S cm-1 for isotropic and chain-oriented films, respectively, resulting in a 10 to 50 times larger thermoelectric power factor compared to those obtained with neat dopants. Moreover, BCF:F4TCNQ-doped P3HT exhibits a 3-fold higher thermal dedoping activation energy compared to that obtained with neat dopants and at least a factor of 10 better operational stability.
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- Osnat Zapata-Arteaga
- Institut
de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institut
de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
- Molecular
Gate SL, calle Genova
11, 28004 Madrid, Spain
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- Institut
de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
- Molecular
Gate SL, calle Genova
11, 28004 Madrid, Spain
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- Department
of Materials, Eidgenössische Technische
Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 5, Zürich 8093, Switzerland
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- Institut
de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Universidade
da Coruña, Campus Industrial de Ferrol,
CITENI, Esteiro, 15403 Ferrol, Spain
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- Institut
de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Universidade
da Coruña, Campus Industrial de Ferrol,
CITENI, Esteiro, 15403 Ferrol, Spain
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- Institut
de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Wu Y, Salamat CZ, León Ruiz A, Simafranca AF, Akmanşen-Kalayci N, Wu EC, Doud E, Mehmedović Z, Lindemuth JR, Phan MD, Spokoyny AM, Schwartz BJ, Tolbert SH. Using Bulky Dodecaborane-Based Dopants to Produce Mobile Charge Carriers in Amorphous Semiconducting Polymers. CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS : A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2024; 36:5552-5562. [PMID: 38883433 PMCID: PMC11171275 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.4c00502] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2024] [Revised: 04/19/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 06/18/2024]
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Conjugated polymers are a versatile class of electronic materials featured in a variety of next-generation electronic devices. The utility of such polymers is contingent in large part on their electrical conductivity, which depends both on the density of charge carriers (polarons) and on the carrier mobility. Carrier mobility, in turn, is largely controlled by the separation between the polarons and dopant counterions, as counterions can produce Coulombic traps. In previous work, we showed that large dopants based on dodecaborane (DDB) clusters were able to reduce Coulombic binding and thus increase carrier mobility in regioregular (RR) poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT). Here, we use a DDB-based dopant to study the effects of polaron-counterion separation in chemically doped regiorandom (RRa) P3HT, which is highly amorphous. X-ray scattering shows that the DDB dopants, despite their large size, can partially order the RRa P3HT during doping and produce a doped polymer crystal structure similar to that of DDB-doped RR P3HT; Alternating Field (AC) Hall measurements also confirm a similar hole mobility. We also show that use of the large DDB dopants successfully reduces Coulombic binding of polarons and counterions in amorphous polymer regions, resulting in a 77% doping efficiency in RRa P3HT films. The DDB dopants are able to produce RRa P3HT films with a 4.92 S/cm conductivity, a value that is ∼200× higher than that achieved with 3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ), the traditional dopant molecule. These results show that tailoring dopants to produce mobile carriers in both the amorphous and semicrystalline regions of conjugated polymers is an effective strategy for increasing achievable polymer conductivities, particularly in low-cost polymers with random regiochemistry. The results also emphasize the importance of dopant size and shape for producing Coulombically unbound, mobile polarons capable of electrical conduction in less-ordered materials.
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- Yutong Wu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Center for Neutron Science, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1595, United States
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Wang S, Zhu W, Jacobs IE, Wood WA, Wang Z, Manikandan S, Andreasen JW, Un HI, Ursel S, Peralta S, Guan S, Grivel JC, Longuemart S, Sirringhaus H. Enhancing the Thermoelectric Properties of Conjugated Polymers by Suppressing Dopant-Induced Disorder. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2024; 36:e2314062. [PMID: 38558210 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202314062] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/22/2023] [Revised: 03/17/2024] [Indexed: 04/04/2024]
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Doping is a crucial strategy to enhance the performance of various organic electronic devices. However, in many cases, the random distribution of dopants in conjugated polymers leads to the disruption of the polymer microstructure, severely constraining the achievable performance of electronic devices. Here, it is shown that by ion-exchange doping polythiophene-based P[(3HT)1-x-stat-(T)x] (x = 0 (P1), 0.12 (P2), 0.24 (P3), and 0.36 (P4)), remarkably high electrical conductivity of >400 S cm-1 and power factor of >16 µW m-1 K-2 are achieved for the random copolymer P3, ranking it among highest ever reported for unaligned P3HT-based films, significantly higher than that of P1 (<40 S cm-1, <4 µW m-1 K-2). Although both polymers exhibit comparable field-effect transistor hole mobilities of ≈0.1 cm2 V-1 s-1 in the pristine state, after doping, Hall effect measurements indicate that P3 exhibits a large Hall mobility up to 1.2 cm2 V-1 s-1, significantly outperforming that of P1 (0.06 cm2 V-1 s-1). GIWAXS measurement determines that the in-plane π-π stacking distance of doped P3 is 3.44 Å, distinctly shorter than that of doped P1 (3.68 Å). These findings contribute to resolving the long-standing dopant-induced-disorder issues in P3HT and serve as an example for achieving fast charge transport in highly doped polymers for efficient electronics.
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- Suhao Wang
- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
- Unité de Dynamique et Structure des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, 145 Avenue Maurice Schumann, Dunkerque, 59140, France
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Laboratoire de Physicochimie des Polymères et des Interfaces, CY Cergy Paris Université, 5 Mail Gay Lussac, Neuville-sur-Oise, 95000, France
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- Maxwell Centre, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark, Kongens Lyngby, 2800, Denmark
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- Unité de Dynamique et Structure des Matériaux Moléculaires, Université du Littoral Côte d'Opale, 145 Avenue Maurice Schumann, Dunkerque, 59140, France
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- Optoelectronics Group, Cavendish Laboratory, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 0HE, UK
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Jia Z, Wang W, Ma C, Zhang X, Yan R, Zhu J. Efficiently tuning the electrical performance of PBTTT-C14 thin film via insitucontrollable multiple precursors (Al 2O 3:ZnO) vapor phase infiltration. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2024; 35:265701. [PMID: 38527361 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ad375c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 03/24/2024] [Indexed: 03/27/2024]
Abstract
Conjugated polymer-based organic/inorganic hybrid materials become the current research frontier and show great potential to integrate flexible polymers and rigid solid materials, which have been widely used in the field of various flexible electronics and optical devices. In this study, based on the multiple vapor phase infiltration (VPI) process, various precursor molecules (diethylzinc DEZ, trimethylaluminum TMA, H2O) are applied for thein situmodification of PBTTT-C14 films. The conductivity of the PBTTT-C14/Al2O3:ZnO (AZO) film is significantly enhanced, and the maximum value of conductivity is 1.16 S cm-1, which is eight orders of magnitude higher than the undoped PBTTT-C14 thin film. Here, the change of morphologies and crystalline states are analyzed via SEM, AFM, and XRD. And the chemical changes during the VPI process of PBTTT-C14 are characterized through Raman, XPS, and UV-vis. During the AZO VPI process, the formation of new ZnS matrix in the polymer subsurface can generate new additional electron conduction pathways through the crosslinking of polymer chains with inorganic materials, and the addition of Al2O3can bring about the increase of average grain size of ZnO crystals, which is also benefit to the conductivity increase of PBTTT-C14 thin film. Generally, the synergistic effect between the inorganic and polymer constituents results in the significantly enhancement of the conductivity of PBTTT-C14/AZO thin films.
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- Zhen Jia
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Material, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Material, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Material, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Material, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, People's Republic of China
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Green Preparation and Functionalization for Inorganic Material, Shaanxi University of Science & Technology, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710021, People's Republic of China
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- Guangzhou Special Pressure Equipment Inspection and Research Institute; National Graphene Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510700, People's Republic of China
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Limelette P, Leclerc N, Brinkmann M. Heterogeneous Oriented Structure model of thermoelectric transport in conducting polymers. Sci Rep 2023; 13:21161. [PMID: 38036620 PMCID: PMC10689499 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-48353-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2023] [Accepted: 11/25/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
Abstract
Understanding transport phenomena in conducting polymers (CP) is a main issue in order to optimize their performance and despite intense investigations, the influence of their microstructure remains controversial. By analyzing the thermoelectric measurements performed on highly oriented and non-oriented CP films, we show that an Heterogeneous Oriented Structure (HOSt) model considering both ordered and disordered domains is able to account for the thermoelectric transport in CP. This model unveils the key role of the crystallinity, the anisotropy and the alignment degree of these domains. It points out the importance of the thermal conductivity in the interpretation of the thermopower [Formula: see text] and explains the frequently observed electrical conductivity [Formula: see text] cut-off in the [Formula: see text] curves due to the disordered domains. By varying the alignment degree depending on the orientation and the anisotropy according to the face-on or the edge-on polymers conformation, the HOSt model successfully describes the overall measured thermoelectric properties by demonstrating its applicability to a wide variety of both oriented and non-oriented CP.
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- Patrice Limelette
- GREMAN UMR 7347, Université de Tours, CNRS, INSA CVL, Parc de Grandmont, 37200, Tours, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, 67087, Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, 67000, Strasbourg, France
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Chen P, Wang D, Luo L, Meng J, Zhou Z, Dai X, Zou Y, Tan L, Shao X, Di CA, Jia C, Zhang HL, Liu Z. Self-Doping Naphthalene Diimide Conjugated Polymers for Flexible Unipolar n-Type OTFTs. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2023; 35:e2300240. [PMID: 36812459 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202300240] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Revised: 02/15/2023] [Indexed: 05/19/2023]
Abstract
The development of high-performance organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) materials is vital for flexible electronics. Numerous OTFTs are so far reported but obtaining high-performance and reliable OTFTs simultaneously for flexible electronics is still challenging. Herein, it is reported that self-doping in conjugated polymer enables high unipolar n-type charge mobility in flexible OTFTs, as well as good operational/ambient stability and bending resistance. New naphthalene diimide (NDI)-conjugated polymers PNDI2T-NM17 and PNDI2T-NM50 with different contents of self-doping groups on their side chains are designed and synthesized. The effects of self-doping on the electronic properties of resulting flexible OTFTs are investigated. The results reveal that the flexible OTFTs based on self-doped PNDI2T-NM17 exhibit unipolar n-type charge-carrier properties and good operational/ambient stability thanks to the appropriate doping level and intermolecular interactions. The charge mobility and on/off ratio are fourfold and four orders of magnitude higher than those of undoped model polymer, respectively. Overall, the proposed self-doping strategy is useful for rationally designing OTFT materials with high semiconducting performance and reliability.
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- Pinyu Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 401331, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Electronic Thin Films and Integrated Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 610054, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Applied Organic Chemistry (SKLAOC), Key Laboratory of Special Function Materials and Structure Design, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou, 730000, China
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Kim J, Suh EH, Lee K, Kim G, Kim H, Jang J, Jung IH. Development of Alkylthiazole-Based Novel Thermoelectric Conjugated Polymers for Facile Organic Doping. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:1286. [PMID: 37049379 PMCID: PMC10097314 DOI: 10.3390/nano13071286] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2023] [Revised: 04/01/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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In this study, we developed two novel conjugated polymers that can easily be doped with F4TCNQ organic dopants using a sequential doping method and then studied their organic thermoelectric (OTE) properties. In particular, to promote the intermolecular ordering of OTE polymers in the presence of the F4TCNQ dopant, alkylthiazole-based conjugated building blocks with highly planar backbone structures were synthesized and copolymerized. All polymers showed strong molecular ordering and edge-on orientation in the film state, even in the presence of the F4TCNQ organic dopant. Thus, the sequential doping process barely changed the molecular ordering of the polymer films while making efficient molecular doping. In addition, the doping efficiency was improved in the more π-extended polymer backbones with thienothiophene units due to the emptier space in the polymer lamellar structure to locate ionized F4TCNQ. Moreover, the study of organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) revealed that higher hole mobility in OTFTs was the key to increasing the electrical conductivity of OTE devices fabricated using the sequential doping method.
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- Junho Kim
- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Organic and Nano Engineering, and Human-Tech Convergence Program, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy Engineering, Hanyang University, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Organic and Nano Engineering, and Human-Tech Convergence Program, Hanyang University, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, Seoul 04763, Republic of Korea
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Barrett BJ, Katz HE, Bragg AE. Permittivity Threshold and Thermodynamics of Integer Charge-Transfer Complexation for an Organic Donor-Acceptor Pair. J Phys Chem B 2023; 127:2792-2800. [PMID: 36926897 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.3c00218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/18/2023]
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Molecular charge doping involves the formation of donor-acceptor charge-transfer complexes (CTCs) through integer or partial electron transfer; understanding how local chemical environment impacts complexation is important for controlling the properties of organic materials. We present steady-state and temperature-dependent spectroscopic investigations of the p-dopant 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ) complexed with the electron donor and hole transport material N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-di-p-tolylbenzene-1,4-diamine (MPDA). Equilibrium formation constants (KCT) were determined for donor-acceptor pairs dissolved in a series of solvents covering a range of values of permittivity. A threshold for highly favorable complex formation was observed to occur at ϵ ∼ 8-9, with large (>104) and small (<103) values of KCT obtained in solvents of higher and lower permittivity, respectively, but with chloroform (ϵ = 4.81) exhibiting an anomalously high formation constant. Temperature-dependent formation constants were determined in order to evaluate the thermodynamics of complex formation. In 1,2-dichloroethane (ϵ = 10.36) and chlorobenzene (ϵ = 5.62), complex formation is both enthalpically and entropically favorable, with higher enthalpic and entropic stabilization in the solvent with higher permittivity. Complexation in chloroform is exothermic and entropically disfavored, indicating that specific, inner-shell solvent-solute interactions stabilize the charge-separated complex and result in a net increase in local solution structure. Our results provide insight into how modification to the chemical environment may be utilized to support stable integer charge transfer for molecular doping applications and requiring only modest changes in local permittivity.
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- Brandon J Barrett
- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Material Science & Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Eryilmaz IH, Chen YF, Mattana G, Orgiu E. Organic thermoelectric generators: working principles, materials, and fabrication techniques. Chem Commun (Camb) 2023; 59:3160-3174. [PMID: 36805573 DOI: 10.1039/d2cc04205c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/16/2023]
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Organic thermoelectricity is a blooming field of research that employs organic (semi)conductors to recycle waste heat through its partial conversion to electrical power. Such a conversion occurs by means of organic thermoelectric generator (OTEG) devices. The recent process on the synthesis of novel materials and on the understanding of doping mechanisms to increase conductivity has tremendously narrowed the gap between laboratory research and their application in actual applications. This Feature Article intends to highlight the impressive progress in materials and fabrication techniques for OTEGs made in recent years.
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- Ilknur Hatice Eryilmaz
- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Blvd. Lionel-Boulet, J3X 1P7, Varennes, QC, Canada.
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Blvd. Lionel-Boulet, J3X 1P7, Varennes, QC, Canada.
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- Université Paris Cité, ITODYS, CNRS, UMR 7086, 15 rue J.-A. de Baïf, F-75013 Paris, France.
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- Institut national de la recherche scientifique, Centre Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications, 1650 Blvd. Lionel-Boulet, J3X 1P7, Varennes, QC, Canada.
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Control Aggregation of P3HT in Solution for High Efficiency Doping: Ensuring Structural Order and the Distribution of Dopants. CHINESE JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2023. [DOI: 10.1007/s10118-023-2939-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/09/2023]
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Guo J, Liu Y, Chen P, Wang X, Wang Y, Guo J, Qiu X, Zeng Z, Jiang L, Yi Y, Watanabe S, Liao L, Bai Y, Nguyen T, Hu Y. Revealing the Electrophilic-Attack Doping Mechanism for Efficient and Universal p-Doping of Organic Semiconductors. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2022; 9:e2203111. [PMID: 36089649 PMCID: PMC9661849 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202203111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2022] [Revised: 08/18/2022] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Doping is of great importance to tailor the electrical properties of semiconductors. However, the present doping methodologies for organic semiconductors (OSCs) are either inefficient or can only apply to some OSCs conditionally, seriously limiting their general applications. Herein, a novel p-doping mechanism is revealed by investigating the interactions between the dopant trityl tetrakis(pentafluorophenyl) borate (TrTPFB) and poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT). It is found that electrophilic attack of the trityl cations on thiophenes results in the formation of tritylated thiophenium ions, which subsequently induce electron transfer from neighboring P3HT chains to realize p-doping. This unique p-doping mechanism enables TrTPFB to p-dope various OSCs including those with high ionization energy (IE ≈ 5.8 eV). Moreover, this doping mechanism endows TrTPFB with strong doping capability, leading to doping efficiency of over 80% in P3HT. The discovery and elucidation of this novel doping mechanism not only points out that strong electrophiles are a class of efficient p-dopants for OSCs, but also provides new opportunities toward highly efficient doping of various OSCs.
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- Jing Guo
- International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base for Advanced Display Technologies of Hunan ProvinceCollege of Semiconductors (College of Integrated Circuits)Hunan UniversityChangsha410082P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem‐/Bio‐Sensing and ChemometricsSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangshaHunan410082P. R. China
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- International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base for Advanced Display Technologies of Hunan ProvinceCollege of Semiconductors (College of Integrated Circuits)Hunan UniversityChangsha410082P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem‐/Bio‐Sensing and ChemometricsSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangshaHunan410082P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem‐/Bio‐Sensing and ChemometricsSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangshaHunan410082P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem‐/Bio‐Sensing and ChemometricsSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangshaHunan410082P. R. China
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- International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base for Advanced Display Technologies of Hunan ProvinceCollege of Semiconductors (College of Integrated Circuits)Hunan UniversityChangsha410082P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem‐/Bio‐Sensing and ChemometricsSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangshaHunan410082P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesKey Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing100190P. R. China
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- Material Innovation Research Center (MIRC) and Department of Advanced Material ScienceGraduate School of Frontier SciencesThe University of Tokyo5‐1‐5 KashiwanohaKashiwaChiba77‐8561Japan
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- International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base for Advanced Display Technologies of Hunan ProvinceCollege of Semiconductors (College of Integrated Circuits)Hunan UniversityChangsha410082P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chem‐/Bio‐Sensing and ChemometricsSchool of Chemistry and Chemical EngineeringHunan UniversityChangshaHunan410082P. R. China
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- Center for Polymers and Organic SolidsDepartment of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California at Santa BarbaraSanta BarbaraCA93106USA
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- International Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Base for Advanced Display Technologies of Hunan ProvinceCollege of Semiconductors (College of Integrated Circuits)Hunan UniversityChangsha410082P. R. China
- Shenzhen Research Institute of Hunan UniversityShenzhen518063P. R. China
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Wu ECK, Salamat CZ, Tolbert SH, Schwartz BJ. Molecular Dynamics Study of the Thermodynamics of Integer Charge Transfer vs Charge-Transfer Complex Formation in Doped Conjugated Polymers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:26988-27001. [PMID: 35657331 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c06449] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Molecular dopants such as 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ) can interact with conjugated polymers such as poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) in two different ways: they can undergo integer charge transfer (ICT) or they can form a partial-charge-transfer complex (CTC). Both are seen experimentally, but the CTC has been challenging to characterize, making it difficult to answer questions such as the following. Which polymorph is more stable? Do they have similar barriers for formation? Is there a thermodynamic route to convert one to the other? Here, we study the structure and the thermodynamics of bulk F4TCNQ-doped P3HT with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations, using thermodynamic integration to calculate the relative free energies. We find that the ICT and CTC polymorphs have similar thermodynamic stabilities. The barrier to create the ICT polymorph, however, is lower than that to make the CTC polymorph, because the ICT polymorph has a small critical nucleus, but the critical nucleus for the CTC polymorph is larger than what we can simulate. Moreover, simulated thermal annealing shows that the activation barrier for converting the CTC polymorph to the ICT polymorph is relatively modest. Overall, the simulations explain both the observed structures and the thermodynamics of F4TCNQ-doped P3HT and offer guidelines for targeting the production of a desired polymorph for different applications.
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- Eric Chih-Kuan Wu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Departments of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Science and Engineering University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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Wang S, Zuo G, Kim J, Sirringhaus H. Progress of Conjugated Polymers as Emerging Thermoelectric Materials. Prog Polym Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.progpolymsci.2022.101548] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Dixon AL, Vezin H, Nguyen TQ, Reddy GNM. Structural insights into Lewis acid- and F4TCNQ-doped conjugated polymers by solid-state magnetic resonance spectroscopy. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2022; 9:981-990. [PMID: 34982809 DOI: 10.1039/d1mh01574e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Molecular doping strategies facilitate orders of magnitude enhancement in the charge carrier mobility of organic semiconductors (OSCs). Understanding the different doping mechanisms and molecular-level constraints on doping efficiency related to the material energy levels is crucial to develop versatile dopants for OSCs. Given the compositional and structural heterogeneities associated with OSC thin films, insight into dopant-polymer interactions by long-range techniques such as X-ray scattering and electron microscopy is exceedingly challenging to obtain. This study employs short-range probes, solid-state (ss)NMR and EPR spectroscopy, to resolve local structures and intermolecular interactions between dopants such as F4TCNQ (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane), Lewis acid BCF (tris[pentafluorophenyl] borane) and Lewis base conjugated polymer, PCPDTBT (P4) (poly[2,6-(4,4-bis(2-hexadecyl)-4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b;3,4-b']dithiophene)-alt-4,7(2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)]). Analysis of 1H and 13C ssNMR spectra of P4, P4 : F4TCNQ and P4 : BCF blends indicates that the addition of dopants induces local structural changes in the P4 polymer, and causes paramagnetism-induced signal broadening and intensity losses. The hyperfine interactions in P4 : BCF and P4 : F4TCNQ are characterized by two-dimensional pulsed EPR spectroscopy. For P4 : F4TCNQ, 19F ssNMR analysis indicates that the F4TCNQ molecules are distributed and aggregated into different local chemical environments. By comparison, BCF molecules are intermixed with the P4 polymer and interact with traces of water molecules to form BCF-water complexes that serve as Brønsted acid sites, as revealed by 11B ssNMR spectroscopy. These results indicate that the P4-dopant blends exhibit complex morphology with different distributions of dopants, whereby the combined use of ssNMR and EPR provides essential insights into how higher doping efficiency is observed with BCF and a mediocre efficiency is associated with F4TCNQ molecules.
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- Alana L Dixon
- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
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- University of Lille, CNRS UMR8516, LASIRE, Lille, F-59000, France
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA.
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille Institut, Univ. Artois, UMR 8181-UCCS-Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, Lille, F-59000, France.
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Dahlström S, Wilken S, Zhang Y, Ahläng C, Barlow S, Nyman M, Marder SR, Österbacka R. Cross-Linking of Doped Organic Semiconductor Interlayers for Organic Solar Cells: Potential and Challenges. ACS APPLIED ENERGY MATERIALS 2021; 4:14458-14466. [PMID: 34977476 PMCID: PMC8715538 DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c03127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2021] [Accepted: 11/24/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Solution-processable interlayers are important building blocks for the commercialization of organic electronic devices such as organic solar cells. Here, the potential of cross-linking to provide an insoluble, stable, and versatile charge transport layer based on soluble organic semiconductors is studied. For this purpose, a photoreactive tris-azide cross-linker is synthesized. The capability of the small molecular cross-linker is illustrated by applying it to a p-doped polymer used as a hole transport layer in organic solar cells. High cross-linking efficiency and excellent charge extraction properties of the cross-linked doped hole transport layer are demonstrated. However, at high doping levels in the interlayer, the solar cell efficiency is found to deteriorate. Based on charge extraction measurements and numerical device simulations, it is shown that this is due to diffusion of dopants into the active layer of the solar cell. Thus, in the development of future cross-linker materials, care must be taken to ensure that they immobilize not only the host but also the dopants.
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- Staffan Dahlström
- Physics,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo
Akademi University, Henriksgatan 2, 20500 Turku, Finland
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- Physics,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo
Akademi University, Henriksgatan 2, 20500 Turku, Finland
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- School
of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Physics,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo
Akademi University, Henriksgatan 2, 20500 Turku, Finland
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- School
of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Physics,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo
Akademi University, Henriksgatan 2, 20500 Turku, Finland
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- School
of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia
Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
- Renewable
and Sustainable Energy Institute, University
of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
- Department
of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
- Department
of Chemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80303, United States
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- Physics,
Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo
Akademi University, Henriksgatan 2, 20500 Turku, Finland
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Scaccabarozzi AD, Basu A, Aniés F, Liu J, Zapata-Arteaga O, Warren R, Firdaus Y, Nugraha MI, Lin Y, Campoy-Quiles M, Koch N, Müller C, Tsetseris L, Heeney M, Anthopoulos TD. Doping Approaches for Organic Semiconductors. Chem Rev 2021; 122:4420-4492. [PMID: 34793134 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00581] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Electronic doping in organic materials has remained an elusive concept for several decades. It drew considerable attention in the early days in the quest for organic materials with high electrical conductivity, paving the way for the pioneering work on pristine organic semiconductors (OSCs) and their eventual use in a plethora of applications. Despite this early trend, however, recent strides in the field of organic electronics have been made hand in hand with the development and use of dopants to the point that are now ubiquitous. Here, we give an overview of all important advances in the area of doping of organic semiconductors and their applications. We first review the relevant literature with particular focus on the physical processes involved, discussing established mechanisms but also newly proposed theories. We then continue with a comprehensive summary of the most widely studied dopants to date, placing particular emphasis on the chemical strategies toward the synthesis of molecules with improved functionality. The processing routes toward doped organic films and the important doping-processing-nanostructure relationships, are also discussed. We conclude the review by highlighting how doping can enhance the operating characteristics of various organic devices.
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- Alberto D Scaccabarozzi
- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg 412 96, Sweden
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- Materials Science Institute of Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institut für Physik & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia.,Research Center for Electronics and Telecommunication, Indonesian Institute of Science, Jalan Sangkuriang Komplek LIPI Building 20 level 4, Bandung 40135, Indonesia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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- Materials Science Institute of Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbH, Kekulé-Strasse 5, 12489 Berlin, Germany.,Institut für Physik & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg 412 96, Sweden
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- Department of Physics, National Technical University of Athens, Athens GR-15780, Greece
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- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London W12 0BZ, U.K
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- King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KAUST Solar Center (KSC), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia
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Transition metal-catalysed molecular n-doping of organic semiconductors. Nature 2021; 599:67-73. [PMID: 34732866 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-03942-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2020] [Accepted: 08/24/2021] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Chemical doping is a key process for investigating charge transport in organic semiconductors and improving certain (opto)electronic devices1-9. N(electron)-doping is fundamentally more challenging than p(hole)-doping and typically achieves a very low doping efficiency (η) of less than 10%1,10. An efficient molecular n-dopant should simultaneously exhibit a high reducing power and air stability for broad applicability1,5,6,9,11, which is very challenging. Here we show a general concept of catalysed n-doping of organic semiconductors using air-stable precursor-type molecular dopants. Incorporation of a transition metal (for example, Pt, Au, Pd) as vapour-deposited nanoparticles or solution-processable organometallic complexes (for example, Pd2(dba)3) catalyses the reaction, as assessed by experimental and theoretical evidence, enabling greatly increased η in a much shorter doping time and high electrical conductivities (above 100 S cm-1; ref. 12). This methodology has technological implications for realizing improved semiconductor devices and offers a broad exploration space of ternary systems comprising catalysts, molecular dopants and semiconductors, thus opening new opportunities in n-doping research and applications12, 13.
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Ma T, Dong BX, Onorato JW, Niklas J, Poluektov O, Luscombe CK, Patel SN. Correlating conductivity and Seebeck coefficient to doping within crystalline and amorphous domains in poly(3‐(methoxyethoxyethoxy)thiophene). JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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- Tengzhou Ma
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering University of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering University of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois USA
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division Argonne National Laboratory Lemont Illinois USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
- Department of Chemistry University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
- Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute University of Washington Seattle Washington USA
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering University of Chicago Chicago Illinois USA
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Nam GH, Sun C, Chung DS, Kim YH. Enhancing Doping Efficiency of Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Copolymers by Introducing Sparse Intramolecular Alkyl Chain Spacing. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01368] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Geon-Hee Nam
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Gyeongsang National University and Research Institute of Nature Science, Jinju, Gyeongnam 52828, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, Gyeongbuk 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, Gyeongsang National University and Research Institute of Nature Science, Jinju, Gyeongnam 52828, Republic of Korea
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Le ML, Rawlings D, Danielsen SPO, Kennard RM, Chabinyc ML, Segalman RA. Aqueous Formulation of Concentrated Semiconductive Fluid Using Polyelectrolyte Coacervation. ACS Macro Lett 2021; 10:1008-1014. [PMID: 35549124 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.1c00354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Conjugated polyelectrolytes (CPEs), which combine π-conjugated backbones with ionic side chains, are intrinsically soluble in polar solvents and have demonstrated tunability with respect to solution processability and optoelectronic performance. However, this class of polymers often suffers from limited solubility in water. Here, we demonstrate how polyelectrolyte coacervation can be utilized for aqueous processing of conjugated polymers at extremely high polymer loading. Sampling various mixing conditions, we identify compositions that enable the formation of complex coacervates of an alkoxysulfonate-substituted PEDOT (PEDOT-S) with poly(3-methyl-1-propylimidazolylacrylamide) (PA-MPI). The resulting coacervate is a viscous fluid containing 50% w/v polymer and can be readily blade-coated into films of 4 ± 0.5 μm thick. Subsequent acid doping of the film increased the electrical conductivity of the coacervate to twice that of a doped film of neat PEDOT-S. This higher conductivity of the doped coacervate film suggests an enhancement in charge carrier transport along PEDOT-S backbone, in agreement with spectroscopic data, which shows an enhancement in the conjugation length of PEDOT-S upon coacervation. This study illustrates the utilization of electrostatic interactions in aqueous processing of conjugated polymers, which will be useful in large-scale industrial processing of semiconductive materials using limited solvent and with added enhancements to optoelectronic properties.
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- My Linh Le
- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Chemical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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- Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
- Chemical Engineering Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, United States
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Lu Y, Wang JY, Pei J. Achieving Efficient n-Doping of Conjugated Polymers by Molecular Dopants. Acc Chem Res 2021; 54:2871-2883. [PMID: 34152131 DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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ConspectusMolecular doping is one of the most central propositions in the field of organic electronics. Unlike classical inorganic semiconductors doped by atomic substitution, organic conjugated materials react with molecular dopants, and then intermolecular charge transfer is involved within. Therefore, the complex noncovalent interactions between two components often cause the molecular dopant to destroy the orderly stacking of the host organic materials and reduce the original properties of the material, such as carrier mobility, which here we call the "doping dilemma." Recently, many studies focus on improving p-doping efficiency and electrical conductivity of doped conjugated polymers; however, the development of n-type molecular doping currently lags far behind that of its p-counterpart. It is well-known that both efficient p- and n-type molecular doping are indispensable in various organic electronic devices, including light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, field-effect transistors, and thermoelectrics. It is thus an urgent requirement to achieve efficient n-doping in conjugated polymers.In this Account, we give a brief overview of our efforts to improve the n-doping efficiency in conjugated polymers with several strategies from the aspects of the polymer/dopant molecular design and the exploration of the n-type molecular doping mechanism and charge transport mechanism in n-doped organic materials. For the conjugated polymer engineering, we first demonstrate that increasing the electron affinity of the host polymer through halogen substitution can boost the n-doping efficiency. Still, the rigid coplanar backbones of conjugated polymers play a crucial role in the polaron delocalization and final electrical performance. In addition, we emphasize the importance of morphology control in the doped polymers to address the "doping dilemma." For n-dopants designing, we summarize some basic guidelines from molecular sizes and shapes, the interaction between dopants (or dopant cations) and polymers, and the effects of dopants on morphology to design high-efficacy n-type molecular dopants. We propose that the polymers and the dopants need to be treated as a whole system; while enhancing the ionization efficiency, more attention should be paid to the carrierization (free-carrier generation) efficiency of these binary systems. In the end, we adopt the n-type polymer thermoelectric material as an example to discuss the grand challenges encountered in practical applications of n-doped conjugated polymers. The air stability and micrometer-thick thermo-leg processing of n-doped polymers are highlighted for thermoelectric applications. It is our hope that this Account showcases a blueprint for rational approaches and a deep understanding toward the design and development of efficient n-doping in conjugated polymers, bringing n-doped organic materials into the next era.
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- Yang Lu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
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Untilova V, Zeng H, Durand P, Herrmann L, Leclerc N, Brinkmann M. Intercalation and Ordering of F 6TCNNQ and F 4TCNQ Dopants in Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Crystals: Impact on Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties of Oriented Thin Films. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c00554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, F-67087 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, F-67087 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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Khan MT, Almohammedi A, Shkir M, Aboud SW. Effect of Ag 2 S nanoparticles on optical, photophysical, and electrical properties of P3HT thin films. LUMINESCENCE 2021; 36:761-768. [PMID: 33386694 DOI: 10.1002/bio.4001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2020] [Revised: 12/15/2020] [Accepted: 12/21/2020] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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In the present work, optical, electrical, and photophysical properties of poly(3-hexylthiophen)/silver sulphide (P3HT/Ag2 S) nanocomposites thin films were investigated. New amorphous dispersion formula was used to fit the experimental ellipsometer data and it was observed that the both refractive index (n) and absorption index (k) increased for hybrid films compared with pure P3HT film. The photophysical properties of fabricated films were examined by recording the photoluminescence (PL) and time resolved fluorescence spectra. The PL quenching in hybrid films signalled the formation of a charge transfer complex between host (P3HT) and guest (Ag2 S). The fluorescence average life time was noted to drop to 94 ps for hybrid P3HT:Ag2 S 1:2 film compared with 126 ps for pristine P3HT. Finally, the electrical properties of fabricated films were measured using the Hall effect systems. The surface resistivity (ρ) of pure P3HT thin films was found to be 9.70 × 104 Ω.cm, which decreased slightly for Ag2 S/P3HT hybrid films.
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- Mohd Taukeer Khan
- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah, Prince Naifbin Abdulaziz Road, Al Jamiah, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah, Prince Naifbin Abdulaziz Road, Al Jamiah, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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- Advanced Functional Materials & Optoelectronics Laboratory (AFMOL), Department of Physics, College of Science, King Khalid University, P.O. Box 9004, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, Islamic University of Madinah, Prince Naifbin Abdulaziz Road, Al Jamiah, Madinah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Voss MG, Challa JR, Scholes DT, Yee PY, Wu EC, Liu X, Park SJ, León Ruiz O, Subramaniyan S, Chen M, Jenekhe SA, Wang X, Tolbert SH, Schwartz BJ. Driving Force and Optical Signatures of Bipolaron Formation in Chemically Doped Conjugated Polymers. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2021; 33:e2000228. [PMID: 33296113 DOI: 10.1002/adma.202000228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 10/11/2020] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Molecular dopants are often added to semiconducting polymers to improve electrical conductivity. However, the use of such dopants does not always produce mobile charge carriers. In this work, ultrafast spectroscopy is used to explore the nature of the carriers created following doping of conjugated push-pull polymers with both F4 TCNQ (2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane) and FeCl3 . It is shown that for one particular push-pull material, the charge carriers created by doping are entirely non-conductive bipolarons and not single polarons, and that transient absorption spectroscopy following excitation in the infrared can readily distinguish the two types of charge carriers. Based on density functional theory calculations and experiments on multiple push-pull conjugated polymers, it is argued that the size of the donor push units determines the relative stabilities of polarons and bipolarons, with larger donor units stabilizing the bipolarons by providing more area for two charges to co-reside.
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- Matthew G Voss
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1750, USA
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1750, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Photoelectronic/Electrophotonic Conversion Materials, Key Laboratory of Cluster Science of Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-8352, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1595, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-8352, USA
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Koopmans M, Leiviskä MAT, Liu J, Dong J, Qiu L, Hummelen JC, Portale G, Heiber MC, Koster LJA. Electrical Conductivity of Doped Organic Semiconductors Limited by Carrier-Carrier Interactions. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:56222-56230. [PMID: 33263385 PMCID: PMC7747224 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c15490] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 11/20/2020] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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High electrical conductivity is a prerequisite for improving the performance of organic semiconductors for various applications and can be achieved through molecular doping. However, often the conductivity is enhanced only up to a certain optimum doping concentration, beyond which it decreases significantly. We combine analytical work and Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate that carrier-carrier interactions can cause this conductivity decrease and reduce the maximum conductivity by orders of magnitude, possibly in a broad range of materials. Using Monte Carlo simulations, we disentangle the effect of carrier-carrier interactions from carrier-dopant interactions. Coulomb potentials of ionized dopants are shown to decrease the conductivity, but barely influence the trend of conductivity versus doping concentration. We illustrate these findings using a doped fullerene derivative for which we can correctly estimate the carrier density at which the conductivity maximizes. We use grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering to show that the decrease of the conductivity cannot be explained by changes to the microstructure. We propose the reduction of carrier-carrier interactions as a strategy to unlock higher-conductivity organic semiconductors.
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- Marten Koopmans
- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
- Stratingh
Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
- Stratingh
Institute for Chemistry, University of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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- Center
for Hierarchical Materials Design, Northwestern
University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United
States
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- Zernike
Institute for Advanced Materials, University
of Groningen, Groningen 9747 AG, The Netherlands
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Nagamatsu S, Pandey SS. Ordered arrangement of F4TCNQ anions in three-dimensionally oriented P3HT thin films. Sci Rep 2020; 10:20020. [PMID: 33208776 PMCID: PMC7674482 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-77022-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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An ordered arrangement of electron-accepting molecular dopant, 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ), in three-dimensionally (3D) oriented poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) film was clarified. The 3D oriented P3HT thin films prepared by the friction-transfer technique were doped with F4TCNQ by dipping into an acetonitrile solution. The presence of F4TCNQ anions in the 3D oriented P3HT thin films was investigated by polarized ultraviolet/visible/near-infrared absorption spectroscopy, grazing incidence X-ray diffractometry, polarized Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and infrared p-polarized multiple-angle incidence resolution spectroscopy (pMAIRS). The F4TCNQ-doped 3D oriented P3HT films showed anisotropic properties in all characterizations. In particular, the anisotropic molecular vibrations from polarized FT-IR and pMAIRS have clearly revealed orientations of polymeric chains and molecular dopant molecules. Considering the results from several independent techniques indicated that F4TCNQ anions in the 3D oriented P3HT were orderly arranged in a 3D manner with respect to the 3D oriented P3HT such that their molecular long-axis parallel to the P3HT backbone, with in-plane molecular orientation. Additionally, the direction of the optical transition moment of the F4TCNQ anion was found to be parallel to the molecular short-axis.
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- Shuichi Nagamatsu
- Department of Physics and Information Technology, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 680-4 Kawazu, Iizuka, Fukuoka, 820-8502, Japan.
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- Graduate School of Life Science and Systems Engineering, Kyushu Institute of Technology, 2-4 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu, 808-0196, Japan
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Jang HJ, Song Y, Wagner J, Katz HE. Suppression of Ionic Doping by Molecular Dopants in Conjugated Polymers for Improving Specificity and Sensitivity in Biosensing Applications. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:45036-45044. [PMID: 32924437 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c11125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Ionic doping effects in conjugated polymers often cause nonspecific signaling and a low selectivity of bioelectronic sensing. Using remote-gate field-effect transistor characterization of molecular and ionic doping in poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and acid-functionalized polythiophene, poly[3-(3-carboxypropyl) thiophene-2,5-diyl] (PT-COOH), we discovered that proton doping effects on the interfacial potential occurring in P3HT could be suppressed by sequentially doping P3HT by 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ). To be specific, intrinsic pH sensitivity shown by pure P3HT (18 mV/pH in a range from pH 3 to 9) was fully dissipated for doped P3HT:F4TCNQ. However, F4TCNQ sequential doping instead increases pH sensitivity of acid-functionalized polythiophene, PT-COOH (40 mV/pH), compared to that of a pure PT-COOH (30 mV/pH). Interactions between polythiophene backbone and side chains, which constrain the activity of COOH, are weakened by stronger F4TCNQ doping leaving behind responsive COOH groups exposed to aqueous solutions. This is supported by the reduced pH sensitivity of PT-COOH sequentially doped by a weaker dopant, tetracyanoethylene (TCNE) (21 mV/pH). Thus, doping is shown to stabilize a nonpolar conjugated polymer to pH-induced fluctuations on one hand, and to activate a COOH side chain to pH-induced response on the other.
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- Hyun-June Jang
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2608, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2608, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2608, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218-2608, United States
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Wegner B, Lungwitz D, Mansour AE, Tait CE, Tanaka N, Zhai T, Duhm S, Forster M, Behrends J, Shoji Y, Opitz A, Scherf U, List‐Kratochvil EJW, Fukushima T, Koch N. An Organic Borate Salt with Superior p-Doping Capability for Organic Semiconductors. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2020; 7:2001322. [PMID: 32995128 PMCID: PMC7507313 DOI: 10.1002/advs.202001322] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2020] [Revised: 05/12/2020] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Molecular doping allows enhancement and precise control of electrical properties of organic semiconductors, and is thus of central technological relevance for organic (opto-) electronics. Beyond single-component molecular electron acceptors and donors, organic salts have recently emerged as a promising class of dopants. However, the pertinent fundamental understanding of doping mechanisms and doping capabilities is limited. Here, the unique capabilities of the salt consisting of a borinium cation (Mes2B+; Mes: mesitylene) and the tetrakis(penta-fluorophenyl)borate anion [B(C6F5)4]- is demonstrated as p-type dopant for polymer semiconductors. With a range of experimental methods, the doping mechanism is identified to comprise electron transfer from the polymer to Mes2B+, and the positive charge on the polymer is stabilized by [B(C6F5)4]-. Notably, the former salt cation leaves during processing and is not present in films. The anion [B(C6F5)4]- even enables the stabilization of polarons and bipolarons in poly(3-hexylthiophene), not yet achieved with other molecular dopants. From doping studies with high ionization energy polymer semiconductors, the effective electron affinity of Mes2B+[B(C6F5)4]- is estimated to be an impressive 5.9 eV. This significantly extends the parameter space for doping of polymer semiconductors.
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- Berthold Wegner
- Institut für Physik and IRIS AdlershofHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
- Helmholtz‐Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbHBerlinD‐12489Germany
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- Institut für Physik and IRIS AdlershofHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
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- Institut für Physik and IRIS AdlershofHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
- Helmholtz‐Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbHBerlinD‐12489Germany
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- Berlin Joint EPR LabFachbereich PhysikFreie Universität BerlinBerlinD‐14195Germany
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life ScienceInstitute of Innovative ResearchTokyo Institute of TechnologyYokohama226‐8503Japan
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM)Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices and Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhou215123P. R. China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM)Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices and Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhou215123P. R. China
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- Makromolekulare Chemie and Institut für PolymertechnologieBergische Universität WuppertalWuppertalD‐42097Germany
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- Berlin Joint EPR LabFachbereich PhysikFreie Universität BerlinBerlinD‐14195Germany
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life ScienceInstitute of Innovative ResearchTokyo Institute of TechnologyYokohama226‐8503Japan
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- Institut für Physik and IRIS AdlershofHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
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- Makromolekulare Chemie and Institut für PolymertechnologieBergische Universität WuppertalWuppertalD‐42097Germany
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- Institut für Physik and IRIS AdlershofHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
- Helmholtz‐Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbHBerlinD‐12489Germany
- Institut für ChemieHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
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- Laboratory for Chemistry and Life ScienceInstitute of Innovative ResearchTokyo Institute of TechnologyYokohama226‐8503Japan
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- Institut für Physik and IRIS AdlershofHumboldt‐Universität zu BerlinBerlinD‐12489Germany
- Helmholtz‐Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie GmbHBerlinD‐12489Germany
- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM)Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices and Joint International Research Laboratory of Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and DevicesSoochow UniversitySuzhou215123P. R. China
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Lu Y, Yu ZD, Liu Y, Ding YF, Yang CY, Yao ZF, Wang ZY, You HY, Cheng XF, Tang B, Wang JY, Pei J. The Critical Role of Dopant Cations in Electrical Conductivity and Thermoelectric Performance of n-Doped Polymers. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:15340-15348. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c05699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Yang Lu
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250014, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250014, People’s Republic of China
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- College of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Collaborative Innovation Center of Functionalized Probes for Chemical Imaging in Universities of Shandong, Key Laboratory of Molecular and Nano Probes, Ministry of Education, Shandong Provincial, Key Laboratory of Clean Production of Fine Chemicals, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong 250014, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China
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Tripathi A, Ko Y, Kim M, Lee Y, Lee S, Park J, Kwon YW, Kwak J, Woo HY. Optimization of Thermoelectric Properties of Polymers by Incorporating Oligoethylene Glycol Side Chains and Sequential Solution Doping with Preannealing Treatment. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c01025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Ayushi Tripathi
- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science, Korea University, Seoul 136-713, Republic of Korea
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Aubry TJ, Winchell KJ, Salamat CZ, Basile VM, Lindemuth JR, Stauber JM, Axtell JC, Kubena RM, Phan MD, Bird MJ, Spokoyny AM, Tolbert SH, Schwartz BJ. Tunable Dopants with Intrinsic Counterion Separation Reveal the Effects of Electron Affinity on Dopant Intercalation and Free Carrier Production in Sequentially Doped Conjugated Polymer Films. ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS 2020; 30:2001800. [PMID: 32684909 PMCID: PMC7357248 DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202001800] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2020] [Revised: 04/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Carrier mobility in doped conjugated polymers is limited by Coulomb interactions with dopant counterions. This complicates studying the effect of the dopant's oxidation potential on carrier generation because different dopants have different Coulomb interactions with polarons on the polymer backbone. Here, dodecaborane (DDB)-based dopants are used, which electrostatically shield counterions from carriers and have tunable redox potentials at constant size and shape. DDB dopants produce mobile carriers due to spatial separation of the counterion, and those with greater energetic offsets produce more carriers. Neutron reflectometry indicates that dopant infiltration into conjugated polymer films is redox-potential-driven. Remarkably, X-ray scattering shows that despite their large 2-nm size, DDBs intercalate into the crystalline polymer lamellae like small molecules, indicating that this is the preferred location for dopants of any size. These findings elucidate why doping conjugated polymers usually produces integer, rather than partial charge transfer: dopant counterions effectively intercalate into the lamellae, far from the polarons on the polymer backbone. Finally, it is shown that the IR spectrum provides a simple way to determine polaron mobility. Overall, higher oxidation potentials lead to higher doping efficiencies, with values reaching 100% for driving forces sufficient to dope poorly crystalline regions of the film.
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- Taylor J. Aubry
- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
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- Neutron Scattering DivisionOak Ridge National LaboratoryOak RidgeTN37831USA
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- Chemistry DepartmentBrookhaven National LaboratoryUptonNY11973USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
- California NanoSystems InstituteUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐7227USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
- California NanoSystems InstituteUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐7227USA
- Department of Materials Science and EngineeringUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1595USA
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- Department of Chemistry and BiochemistryUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐1569USA
- California NanoSystems InstituteUniversity of California, Los AngelesLos AngelesCA90095‐7227USA
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Chen Z, Tang Y, Lin B, Zhao H, Li T, Min T, Yan H, Ma W. Probe and Control of the Tiny Amounts of Dopants in BHJ Film Enable Higher Performance of Polymer Solar Cells. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:25115-25124. [PMID: 32378400 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c06127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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To achieve efficient doping in polymer solar cells (PSCs), the dopant needs to be selectively located in the binary components of a bulk heterojunction (BHJ) film according to its polarity. The rarely studied n-type dopant is thoroughly examined in a simplified planar heterojunction (PHJ) device to address its favored location in the active layer. Results show that the n-dopant distribution in the acceptor layer or at the donor/acceptor interface produces enhanced device performance, whereas it harms the device when located in the donor layer. Based on the results, the benefit of n-type doping is then transferred to the highly efficient BHJ devices via a sequential coating procedure. The performance improvement is closely linked to the variations in the dopant's location in the BHJ film, which is carefully examined by the synchrotron techniques with delicate chemical sensitivity. More interestingly, the sequential coating procedure can be easily extended to the p-doped device only by changing the dopant's polarity in the middle layer. These findings pave the way for ambipolar doping in PSCs and enable performance improvement by molecular doping within the expectations.
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- Zhenyu Chen
- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Center of Spintronics and Quantum Systems, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Center of Spintronics and Quantum Systems, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- Center of Spintronics and Quantum Systems, State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, P. R. China
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Ma T, Dong BX, Grocke GL, Strzalka J, Patel SN. Leveraging Sequential Doping of Semiconducting Polymers to Enable Functionally Graded Materials for Organic Thermoelectrics. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.0c00402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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- Tengzhou Ma
- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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- Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, United States
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Untilova V, Biskup T, Biniek L, Vijayakumar V, Brinkmann M. Control of Chain Alignment and Crystallization Helps Enhance Charge Conductivities and Thermoelectric Power Factors in Sequentially Doped P3HT:F4TCNQ Films. Macromolecules 2020. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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- Physikalische Chemie und Didaktik der Chemie, Universität des Saarlandes, Campus B2 2, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
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Wieland M, Dingler C, Merkle R, Maier J, Ludwigs S. Humidity-Controlled Water Uptake and Conductivities in Ion and Electron Mixed Conducting Polythiophene Films. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:6742-6751. [PMID: 31976650 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b21181] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Mixed conducting polymer films are of great interest in applications where an interface between electronic and ionic charge transport is needed, e.g., in bioelectronics, electrochemical energy applications, and photovoltaic device interfaces. The role of water on charge transport is of high relevance not only for aqueous environments but also for devices that are manufactured at ambient conditions with varying relative humidities. In this contribution, we present our results on the influence of controlled humidity changes on the mixed conductivity and correlation to the concomitant water uptake in the films. Two sulfonate-bearing polythiophene systems are studied: a self-made conjugated polyelectrolyte, poly(6-(thiophen-3-yl)hexane-1-sulfonate)-sodium (PTS-Na), and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT/PSS) with different ratios of PEDOT and the polyelectrolyte PSS. Our data give clear evidence of the similarities between the aforementioned polythiophene systems and pure ionic membranes such as Nafion used in fuel cells. As such, a phase separation between the hydrophobic electronically conducting polythiophene phase and the hydrophilic water-swellable ion-conducting phase is proposed. Changing the humidity from dry conditions up to ∼90% relative humidity results in extremely high water uptakes of more than 90 wt %, which corresponds to ∼13 water molecules per sulfonate unit at maximum water uptake. Conversely, the electronic conductivity is less sensitive to increasing humidity, which is due to percolation pathways. The ionic conductivity strongly increases from 10-10 S/cm at dry conditions to 10-3 S/cm at around 30 wt % water content and then levels off at maximum conductivities of 10-3-10-2 S/cm up to water contents of 90 wt %.
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- Matthias Wieland
- IPOC-Functional Polymers, Institute for Polymer Chemistry , University of Stuttgart , Pfaffenwaldring 55 , 70569 Stuttgart , Germany
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- IPOC-Functional Polymers, Institute for Polymer Chemistry , University of Stuttgart , Pfaffenwaldring 55 , 70569 Stuttgart , Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research , Heisenbergstrasse 1 , 70569 Stuttgart , Germany
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- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research , Heisenbergstrasse 1 , 70569 Stuttgart , Germany
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- IPOC-Functional Polymers, Institute for Polymer Chemistry , University of Stuttgart , Pfaffenwaldring 55 , 70569 Stuttgart , Germany
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Zapata-Arteaga O, Dörling B, Perevedentsev A, Martín J, Reparaz JS, Campoy-Quiles M. Closing the Stability-Performance Gap in Organic Thermoelectrics by Adjusting the Partial to Integer Charge Transfer Ratio. Macromolecules 2020; 53:609-620. [PMID: 32089566 PMCID: PMC7032849 DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02263] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/28/2019] [Revised: 12/17/2019] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Two doping mechanisms are known for the well-studied materials poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly(2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene) (PBTTT), namely, integer charge transfer (ICT) and charge transfer complex (CTC) formation. Yet, there is poor understanding of the effect of doping mechanism on thermal stability and the thermoelectric properties. In this work, we present a method to finely adjust the ICT to CTC ratio. Using it, we characterize electrical and thermal conductivities as well as the Seebeck coefficient and the long-term stability under thermal stress of P3HT and PBTTT of different ICT/CTC ratios. We establish that doping through the CTC results in more stable, yet lower conductivity samples compared to ICT doped films. Importantly, moderate CTC fractions of ∼33% are found to improve the long-term stability without a significant sacrifice in electrical conductivity. Through visible and IR spectroscopies, polarized optical microscopy, and grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering, we find that the CTC dopant molecule access sites within the polymer network are less prone to dedoping upon thermal exposure.
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- Osnat Zapata-Arteaga
- Institute
of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus of the UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institute
of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus of the UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institute
of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus of the UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- POLYMAT
and Polymer Science and Technology Department, Faculty of Chemistry, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Manuel de Lardizabal 3, 20018 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
- Ikerbasque,
Basque Foundation for Science, E-48011 Bilbao, Spain
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- Institute
of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus of the UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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- Institute
of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), Campus of the UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
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Zhang D, Li Q, Zhang J, Wang J, Zhang X, Wang R, Zhou J, Wei Z, Zhang C, Zhou H, Zhang Y. Control of Nanomorphology in Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells by Lewis Acid Doping with Enhanced Photovoltaic Efficiency. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:667-677. [PMID: 31838840 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b17238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Generating desired efficiency enhancements in organic solar cells (OSCs) by charge-transfer doping requires to obtain modified optoelectronic properties while retaining the favorable nanomorphology. We report a thermally assisted doping based on Lewis acid tris(pentafluorophenyl)-borane (BCF) as a p-dopant for two groups of OSCs comprising the PBDB-TF and PBDB-T donors and a nonfullerene acceptor IT-4F. We found that the face-on molecular packing in the PBDB-TF:IT-4F blend or neat PBDB-TF donor films is favorably modified with the formation of frustrated Lewis pairs (FLPs) in the donor, which is in contrast to the hampered π-π stacking in the doped PBDB-T film. The different impacts of BCF dopants on the morphology lead to contrasting photovoltaic behaviors where the PBDB-TF-based devices receive enhanced power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) in the presence of BCF, while reduction of efficiencies is observed in the PBDB-T device. In the best doping conditions with the proposed hot-film deposition, we achieve a boosted PCE of 14.1% in PBDB-TF:IT-4F solar cells at low BCF concentrations. Based on the same fluorinated donor, the described BCF doping also applies to NF-solar cells based on the NF-acceptor Y6, leading to an increase in the PCE to 16.0%. Our results suggest that controlling the degree of FLP formation in the donor component with the addition of BCF is key to obtaining desired improvements on nanomorphology and relevant photophysical properties in OSCs.
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- Dongyang Zhang
- School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering , Beihang University , Beijing 100191 , P. R. China
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- School of Physics , Nanjing University , Nanjing , Jiangsu Province 210093 , P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierachical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering , Beihang University , Beijing 100191 , P. R. China
- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierachical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering , Beihang University , Beijing 100191 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering , Beihang University , Beijing 100191 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering , Beihang University , Beijing 100191 , P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierachical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- School of Physics , Nanjing University , Nanjing , Jiangsu Province 210093 , P. R. China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierachical Fabrication CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience , National Center for Nanoscience and Technology , Beijing 100190 , P. R. China
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- School of Chemistry, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Biomedical Engineering , Beihang University , Beijing 100191 , P. R. China
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Park J, Lee Y, Kim M, Kim Y, Tripathi A, Kwon YW, Kwak J, Woo HY. Closely Packed Polypyrroles via Ionic Cross-Linking: Correlation of Molecular Structure-Morphology-Thermoelectric Properties. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:1110-1119. [PMID: 31825593 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b17009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A series of ionically interconnected polypyrrole (PPy) films are fabricated through two-monomer-connected-precursor polymerization by varying diacid linkers, thereby significantly influencing the crystalline morphology and electrical properties. The structure obtained using 1,5-napthalenedisulfonic acid (PPy-Nap) as a fused aromatic linker exhibits a higher electrical conductivity (∼78 S cm-1) than that (6.7 S cm-1) without a linker (PPy-ref). Cryogenic conductivity measurements reveal that the percolation carrier transport barrier of PPy-Nap is significantly smaller than that of PPy-ref, and the calculated carrier mobility of PPy-Nap is ∼5 times higher compared to PPy-ref. The carrier transport characteristics show a good agreement with morphological data by 2D grazing-incidence X-ray scattering. All PPys have similar doped charge carrier concentrations and, thus, similar Seebeck coefficients (5-8 μV K-1) but very different electrical conductivities. Consequently, PPy-Nap exhibits a higher power factor than that of PPy-ref (0.21 vs 0.043 μW m-1 K-2). The results show that the trade-off relationship between the Seebeck coefficient and electrical conductivity can be overcome by improving crystalline morphology and carrier transport. Thus, both the electrical conductivities and thermoelectric power factors can be improved with maintaining the Seebeck coefficients by enhancing the ordered conductive domains and carrier mobility while maintaining the doping level.
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- Juhyung Park
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- KU-KIST Graduate School of Converging Science and Technology , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Inter-university Semiconductor Research Center , Seoul National University , Seoul 08826 , Republic of Korea
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- Department of Chemistry, College of Science , Korea University , Seoul 02841 , Republic of Korea
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Li H, DeCoster ME, Ming C, Wang M, Chen Y, Hopkins PE, Chen L, Katz HE. Enhanced Molecular Doping for High Conductivity in Polymers with Volume Freed for Dopants. Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.9b02048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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- Hui Li
- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
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- Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200050, China
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, United States
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Yurash B, Cao DX, Brus VV, Leifert D, Wang M, Dixon A, Seifrid M, Mansour AE, Lungwitz D, Liu T, Santiago PJ, Graham KR, Koch N, Bazan GC, Nguyen TQ. Towards understanding the doping mechanism of organic semiconductors by Lewis acids. NATURE MATERIALS 2019; 18:1327-1334. [PMID: 31527809 DOI: 10.1038/s41563-019-0479-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2019] [Accepted: 08/10/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Precise doping of organic semiconductors allows control over the conductivity of these materials, an essential parameter in electronic applications. Although Lewis acids have recently shown promise as dopants for solution-processed polymers, their doping mechanism is not yet fully understood. In this study, we found that B(C6F5)3 is a superior dopant to the other Lewis acids investigated (BF3, BBr3 and AlCl3). Experiments indicate that Lewis acid-base adduct formation with polymers inhibits the doping process. Electron-nuclear double-resonance and nuclear magnetic resonance experiments, together with density functional theory, show that p-type doping occurs by generation of a water-Lewis acid complex with substantial Brønsted acidity, followed by protonation of the polymer backbone and electron transfer from a neutral chain segment to a positively charged, protonated one. This study provides insight into a potential path for protonic acid doping and shows how trace levels of water can transform Lewis acids into powerful Brønsted acids.
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- Brett Yurash
- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Center for Advanced Low-Dimension Materials, Donghua University, Shanghai, China
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Institut für Physik & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Institut für Physik & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
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- Institut für Physik & IRIS Adlershof, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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- Center for Polymers and Organic Solids, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
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Yee PY, Scholes DT, Schwartz BJ, Tolbert SH. Dopant-Induced Ordering of Amorphous Regions in Regiorandom P3HT. J Phys Chem Lett 2019; 10:4929-4934. [PMID: 31382748 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Despite the fact that molecular doping of semiconducting polymers has emerged as a valuable strategy for improving the performance of organic electronic devices, the fundamental dopant-polymer interactions are not fully understood. Here we use 2-D grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering (GIWAXS) to demonstrate that adding oxidizing small-molecule dopants, such as 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ) and FeCl3, into the amorphous conjugated polymer, regiorandom poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (RRa-P3HT), improves polymer ordering and induces a change in domain orientation from isotropic to mostly edge-on. Doping thus causes RRa-P3HT to behave similarly to the more ordered regioregular P3HT. By comparing the optical, electrical, and structural properties of RRa-P3HT films doped with F4TNCQ and FeCl3 and those infiltrated with 7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ), which occupies a similar volume as F4TCNQ but does not dope RRa-P3HT, we show that the increased ordering results not from the ability of the dopant to fill space but instead from the need to delocalize charge on the polymer in more than one dimension.
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- Patrick Y Yee
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1569, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095-1595, United States
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Kroon R, Hofmann AI, Yu L, Lund A, Müller C. Thermally Activated in Situ Doping Enables Solid-State Processing of Conducting Polymers. CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS : A PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 2019; 31:2770-2777. [PMID: 31303693 PMCID: PMC6614883 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.8b04895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Free-standing bulk structures encompassing highly doped conjugated polymers are currently heavily explored for wearable electronics as thermoelectric elements, conducting fibers, and a plethora of sensory devices. One-step manufacturing of such bulk structures is challenging because the interaction of dopants with conjugated polymers results in poor solution and solid-state processability, whereas doping of thick conjugated polymer structures after processing suffers from diffusion-limited transport of the dopant. Here, we introduce the concept of thermally activated latent dopants for in situ bulk doping of conjugated polymers. Latent dopants allow for noninteractive coprocessing of dopants and polymers, while thermal activation eliminates any thickness-dependent diffusion and activation limitations. Two latent acid dopants were synthesized in the form of thermal acid generators based on aryl sulfonic acids and an o-nitrobenzyl capping moiety. First, we show that these acid dopant precursors can be coprocessed noninteractively with three different polythiophenes. Second, the polymer films were doped in situ through thermal activation of the dopants. Ultimately, we demonstrate that solid-state processing with a latent acid dopant can be readily carried out and that it is possible to dope more than 100 μm-thick polymer films through thermal activation of the latent dopant.
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical
Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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Aubry TJ, Axtell JC, Basile VM, Winchell KJ, Lindemuth JR, Porter TM, Liu JY, Alexandrova AN, Kubiak CP, Tolbert SH, Spokoyny AM, Schwartz BJ. Dodecaborane-Based Dopants Designed to Shield Anion Electrostatics Lead to Increased Carrier Mobility in a Doped Conjugated Polymer. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2019; 31:e1805647. [PMID: 30672037 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201805647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/30/2018] [Revised: 12/07/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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One of the most effective ways to tune the electronic properties of conjugated polymers is to dope them with small-molecule oxidizing agents, creating holes on the polymer and molecular anions. Undesirably, strong electrostatic attraction from the anions of most dopants localizes the holes created on the polymer, reducing their mobility. Here, a new strategy utilizing a substituted boron cluster as a molecular dopant for conjugated polymers is employed. By designing the cluster to have a high redox potential and steric protection of the core-localized electron density, highly delocalized polarons with mobilities equivalent to films doped with no anions present are obtained. AC Hall effect measurements show that P3HT films doped with these boron clusters have conductivities and polaron mobilities roughly an order of magnitude higher than films doped with F4 TCNQ, even though the boron-cluster-doped films have poor crystallinity. Moreover, the number of free carriers approximately matches the number of boron clusters, yielding a doping efficiency of ≈100%. These results suggest that shielding the polaron from the anion is a critically important aspect for producing high carrier mobility, and that the high polymer crystallinity required with dopants such as F4 TCNQ is primarily to keep the counterions far from the polymer backbone.
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- Taylor J Aubry
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- Key Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Center for Computational Chemistry and Research Institute of Industrial Catalysis, School of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, P. R. China
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
- California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1569, USA
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Mazaheripour A, Thomas EM, Segalman RA, Chabinyc ML. Nonaggregating Doped Polymers Based on Poly(3,4-Propylenedioxythiophene). Macromolecules 2019. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b02389] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Vijayakumar V, Zaborova E, Biniek L, Zeng H, Herrmann L, Carvalho A, Boyron O, Leclerc N, Brinkmann M. Effect of Alkyl Side Chain Length on Doping Kinetics, Thermopower, and Charge Transport Properties in Highly Oriented F 4TCNQ-Doped PBTTT Films. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:4942-4953. [PMID: 30644706 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b17594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Doping of polymer semiconductors such as poly(2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno[3,2- b]thiophene) (PBTTT) with acceptor molecules such as 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TCNQ) is widely used to tune the charge transport and thermoelectric (TE) properties in thin films. However, the mechanism of dopant insertion in the polymer matrix, insertion kinetics, and the ultimate doping levels reached have been investigated only marginally. This contribution addresses the effect of alkyl side chain length on the doping mechanism of a series of PBTTTs with linear side chains ranging from n-octyl to n-octyldecyl. The study focuses on thin films oriented by high-temperature rubbing and sequentially doped in F4TCNQ solution. Structure-property correlations are established as a function of side chain length by a combination of transmission electron microscopy, polarized UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy, and charge transport/thermopower measurements. Intercalation of F4TCNQ into the layers of side chains results in the expansion of the lattice along the side chains and the contraction along the π-stacking direction for all polymers. The extent of lattice expansion decreases with the increasing side chain length. UV-vis-NIR spectroscopy demonstrates integer charge transfer for all investigated PBTTTs. The doping kinetics and the final doping level depend on both the side chain length and packing. Highly disordered n-octyl and crystalline n-octyldecyl side chain layers tend to hamper dopant diffusion in the side chain layers contrary to n-dodecyl side chains that can host the highest proportion of dopants. Consequently, the best TE properties are observed for C12-PBTTT films. Alignment of the polymers significantly enhances the TE performance by increasing the charge conductivity and the thermopower along the rubbing direction. Aligned films of C12-PBTTT show charge conductivities of 193 S cm-1 along the rubbing direction and power factors of approximately 100 μW m-1 K-2 versus a few μW m-1 K-2 for nonoriented films.
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- Vishnu Vijayakumar
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22 , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- CiNaM, UMR 7325, Université Aix Marseille , Campus de Luminy, Case 913 , 13288 Marseille Cedex 9, France
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515 , F-67087 Strasbourg , France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22 , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22 , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22 , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22 , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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- Laboratoire de Chimie Catalyse Polymères et Procédés (C2P2) , Université de Lyon 1, CPE Lyon, CNRS UMR 5265 , Bat 308F, 43 bd du 11 Novembre 1918 , 69616 Villeurbanne , France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515 , F-67087 Strasbourg , France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22 , F-67000 Strasbourg , France
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Karpov Y, Kiriy N, Formanek P, Zessin J, Hambsch M, Mannsfeld SCB, Lissel F, Beryozkina T, Bakulev V, Voit B, Kiriy A. Layer-by-Layer Assembly Enabled by the Anionic p-Dopant CN6-CP •-K +: a Route to Achieve Interfacial Doping of Organic Semiconductors. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:4159-4168. [PMID: 30608639 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b15033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Highly efficient 2D (interfacial) doping of organic semiconductors, poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and TIPS-pentacene, was achieved by a polyelectrolyte-supported layer-by-layer assembly of the dual-mode functional dopant CN6-CP•-K+, having an anionic group for its fixation onto oppositely charged surfaces/molecules as well as electron-deficient groups providing its p-doping ability. Polyelectrolyte-supported dopant layers were used to generate conductive channels at the bottom or at the top of semiconducting films. Unlike to the case of sequentially processed P3HT films doped by F4TCNQ ( Moulé , J. Chem. Mater. 2015 , 27 , 5765 ; Koech , P. K. J. Mater. Chem. C 2013 , 1 , 1876 ; Schwartz , B. J. J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2015 , 6 , 4786 ), the use of more polar CN6-CP•-K+ dopant and ultrathin polycation separation interlayer enables predominantly interfacial kind of doping placement with no or minimal intercalation of the dopant into the semiconductor bulk. The layered structure of the doped film was proved by transmission electron microscopy of the cross-section and it agrees well with other data obtained in this work. The interfacial doping enabled an impressive conductivity of 13 S/cm even for ultrathin P3HT films. We propose to explain the superior efficiency of the interfacial doping compared to the bulk doping in terms of unperturbed morphology of the semiconductor and high mobility of charge carriers, which are spatially separated from the dopant phase.
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- Yevhen Karpov
- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) , Technische Universität Dresden , Dresden 01062 , Germany
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) , Technische Universität Dresden , Dresden 01062 , Germany
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- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) , Technische Universität Dresden , Dresden 01062 , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
- TOSLab , Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin , Mira str., 28 , 620002 Yekaterinburg , Russia
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
- TOSLab , Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N.Yeltsin , Mira str., 28 , 620002 Yekaterinburg , Russia
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
- Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden (cfaed) , Technische Universität Dresden , Dresden 01062 , Germany
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- Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research Dresden , Hohe Straße 6 , 01069 Dresden , Germany
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Hynynen J, Järsvall E, Kroon R, Zhang Y, Barlow S, Marder SR, Kemerink M, Lund A, Müller C. Enhanced Thermoelectric Power Factor of Tensile Drawn Poly(3-hexylthiophene). ACS Macro Lett 2019; 8:70-76. [PMID: 30701126 PMCID: PMC6344060 DOI: 10.1021/acsmacrolett.8b00820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2018] [Accepted: 12/19/2018] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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The thermoelectric power factor of a broad range of organic semiconductors scales with their electrical conductivity according to a widely obeyed power law, and therefore, strategies that permit this empirical trend to be surpassed are highly sought after. Here, tensile drawing of the conjugated polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) is employed to create free-standing films with a high degree of uniaxial alignment. Along the direction of orientation, sequential doping with a molybdenum tris(dithiolene) complex leads to a 5-fold enhancement of the power factor beyond the predicted value, reaching up to 16 μW m-1 K-2 for a conductivity of about 13 S cm-1. Neither stretching nor doping affect the glass transition temperature of P3HT, giving rise to robust free-standing materials that are of interest for the design of flexible thermoelectric devices.
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- Jonna Hynynen
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- School of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States
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- Complex Materials and Devices, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (IFM), Linköping University, SE-581 83 Linköping, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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Voss MG, Scholes DT, Challa JR, Schwartz BJ. Ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy of doped P3HT films: distinguishing free and trapped polarons. Faraday Discuss 2019; 216:339-362. [PMID: 31038132 DOI: 10.1039/c8fd00210j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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It is generally presumed that the vast majority of carriers created by chemical doping of semiconducting polymer films are coulombically trapped by the counteranion, with only a small fraction that are free and responsible for the increased conductivity essential for organic electronic applications. At higher doping levels, it is also possible for bipolarons to form, which are expected to be less conductive than single polarons. Unfortunately, there is no simple way to distinguish free polarons, trapped polarons and bipolarons using steady-state spectroscopy. Thus, in this work, we use ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy to study the dynamics of polarons in 2,3,5,6-tetrafluoro-7,7,8,8-tetracyanoquinodimethane (F4TNCQ)-doped films of poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) as a function of dopant concentration and excitation wavelength. When exciting on the red side of the polaron P1 transition, our transient absorption spectra and kinetics match well with what is expected for free 2-D-delocalized polarons; the measurements are not consistent with a recent theory of doped conjugated polymer electronic structure that suggests that the half-filled state lies deeper in the conduction band rather than in the bandgap. As we tune the excitation wavelength to the blue, our measurements reveal an increasing amount of slower transient kinetics that are consistent with the presence of coulombically-trapped polarons rather than bipolarons. Taking advantage of their distinct ultrafast relaxation kinetics as a type of action spectroscopy, we are able to extract the steady-state absorption spectra of free and trapped polarons as a function of dopant concentration. By comparing the results to theoretical models, we determine that in F4TCNQ-doped P3HT films, trapped polarons sit ∼0.4 nm away from the anion while free polarons reside between 0.7 and 0.9 nm from the counteranion. Perhaps counterintuitively, the ratio of trapped to free polarons increases at higher doping levels, an observation that is consistent with a plateau in the concentration-dependent conductivity of F4TCNQ-doped P3HT films.
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- Matthew G Voss
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA 90095-1569, USA.
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