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Chetverikov AO, Borovkov VI. The effect of an electric field on the reaction kinetics of a charge carrier migrating within a one-dimensional chain. J Chem Phys 2023; 159:214105. [PMID: 38047507 DOI: 10.1063/5.0179891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/05/2023] [Accepted: 11/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/05/2023] Open
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The aim of this study is to suggest a novel approach for estimating the intramolecular mobility of a charge carrier that migrates within a polymer chain and is involved in a pair reaction with a particle located on the same chain. The approach is based on the effect of an external electric field on the migration rate and, consequently, the kinetics of the reaction. As a first step, this problem is considered a stochastic one-step process with absorbing and reflecting boundaries, and an analytical solution is obtained in the case that the second reactant is immobile. With the use of computer simulations of stochastic migration, the effect of the mobility of both reactants and the influence of the Coulomb interaction between them are considered. It is found that the ratio of the pair reaction rates with and without an external field is relatively little dependent on these factors and that the analytical expressions derived can be applied to estimate the relative mobility of recombining particles with accuracy better than a factor of two in many realistic situations.
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- Artem O Chetverikov
- Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 3, Institutskaya St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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- Voevodsky Institute of Chemical Kinetics and Combustion, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, 3, Institutskaya St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
- Novosibirsk State University, 2 Pirogova St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia
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Wu R, Matta M, Paulsen BD, Rivnay J. Operando Characterization of Organic Mixed Ionic/Electronic Conducting Materials. Chem Rev 2022; 122:4493-4551. [PMID: 35026108 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00597] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Operando characterization plays an important role in revealing the structure-property relationships of organic mixed ionic/electronic conductors (OMIECs), enabling the direct observation of dynamic changes during device operation and thus guiding the development of new materials. This review focuses on the application of different operando characterization techniques in the study of OMIECs, highlighting the time-dependent and bias-dependent structure, composition, and morphology information extracted from these techniques. We first illustrate the needs, requirements, and challenges of operando characterization then provide an overview of relevant experimental techniques, including spectroscopy, scattering, microbalance, microprobe, and electron microscopy. We also compare different in silico methods and discuss the interplay of these computational methods with experimental techniques. Finally, we provide an outlook on the future development of operando for OMIEC-based devices and look toward multimodal operando techniques for more comprehensive and accurate description of OMIECs.
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- Ruiheng Wu
- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.,Simpson Querrey Institute, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, United States
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Ie Y, Okamoto Y, Inoue T, Seo T, Ohto T, Yamada R, Tada H, Aso Y. Improving Intramolecular Hopping Charge Transport via Periodical Segmentation of π-Conjugation in a Molecule. J Am Chem Soc 2021; 143:599-603. [PMID: 33350820 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c10560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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The development of several-nanometer-scale π-conjugated systems for efficient intramolecular hopping charge transport remains a significant challenge. To construct localized electronic structures at the same energy in a molecule, a series of oligothiophenes, with lengths up to 10 nm and periodically twisted structures, was synthesized. Single-molecule conductance measurements of the twisted molecules revealed resistances lower than those of planar oligothiophenes. This study provides a rational molecular design to improve the intramolecular hopping charge transport in materials.
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- Yutaka Ie
- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, 1-3 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research (ISIR), Osaka University, 8-1 Mihogaoka, Ibaraki, Osaka 567-0047, Japan
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Sahalianov I, Hynynen J, Barlow S, Marder SR, Müller C, Zozoulenko I. UV-to-IR Absorption of Molecularly p-Doped Polythiophenes with Alkyl and Oligoether Side Chains: Experiment and Interpretation Based on Density Functional Theory. J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:11280-11293. [PMID: 33237790 PMCID: PMC7872427 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c08757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2020] [Revised: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The UV-to-IR transitions in p-doped poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) with alkyl side chains and polar polythiophene with tetraethylene glycol side chains are studied experimentally by means of the absorption spectroscopy and computationally using density functional theory (DFT) and tight-binding DFT. The evolution of electronic structure is calculated as the doping level is varied, while the roles of dopant ions, chain twisting, and π-π stacking are also considered, each of these having the effect of broadening the absorption peaks while not significantly changing their positions. The calculated spectra are found to be in good agreement with experimental spectra obtained for the polymers doped with a molybdenum dithiolene complex. As in other DFT studies of doped conjugated polymers, the electronic structure and assignment of optical transitions that emerge are qualitatively different from those obtained through earlier "traditional" approaches. In particular, the two prominent bands seen for the p-doped materials are present for both polarons and bipolarons/polaron pairs. The lowest energy of these transitions is due to excitation from the valence band to a spin-resolved orbitals located in the gap between the bands. The higher-energy band is a superposition of excitation from the valence band to a spin-resolved orbitals in the gap and an excitation between bands.
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- Ihor Sahalianov
- Laboratory
of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 60174 Norrköping, 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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- Department
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers
University of Technology, 41296 Göteborg, Sweden
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- Laboratory
of Organic Electronics, Department of Science and Technology, Linköping University, 60174 Norrköping, Sweden
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Takeda N, Miller JR. Inverted Region in Bimolecular Electron Transfer in Solution Enabled by Delocalization. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:17997-18004. [PMID: 32990434 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c04780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Rate constants for bimolecular electron transfer (ET) increased with driving force, -ΔG°, reached a plateau, and then decreased in an inverted region. This rate data was described well by electron transfer theory subject to a diffusion-controlled limit. These were for ET from radical anions of polydecylthiophene (P3DT) to a series of acceptors in THF solution. When the donor was the smaller anion of quaterthiophene (T4•-) the inverted region was much less prominent and still less so for when the donor was the anion of bithiophene (T2•-). Description of the data using ET theory identifies smaller electronic couplings for the highly delocalized P3DT anions as enabling the inverted behavior: The presence of a Marcus inverted region is a consequence of delocalized electronic states. The results further imply that electronic couplings smaller than usually found for molecules in contact could boost efficiency of energy storage by electron transfer and identifies size-mismatch as an important concept in control of electronic couplings.
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- Norihiko Takeda
- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11937, United States
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- Chemistry Division, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11937, United States
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Jones AL, Schanze KS. Fluorescent Charge-Transfer Excited States in Acceptor Derivatized Thiophene Oligomers. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:7001-7013. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c05561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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- Austin L. Jones
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Macromolecular Science and Engineering, University of Florida, Florida P.O. Box 117200, Gainesville, Florida 32611-7200, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, Texas 78249, United States
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Niklas J, Zheng T, Neshchadin A, Mardis KL, Yu L, Poluektov OG. Polaron and Exciton Delocalization in Oligomers of High-Performance Polymer PTB7. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:1359-1366. [PMID: 31860294 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b10859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A key characteristic of organic photovoltaic cells is the efficient charge separation in the active layer. Sufficient delocalization of the positive polaron in organic photovoltaics is considered essential for the effective separation of the opposite charges and the suppression of recombination. We use light-induced EPR and ENDOR spectroscopy combined with DFT calculations to determine the electronic structure of the positive polaron in PTB7-type oligomers. Utilizing the superior spectral resolution of high-frequency (130 GHz) D-band EPR, the principal components of the g tensors were determined. Pulsed ENDOR spectroscopy at X-band allowed the measurement of 1H hyperfine coupling constants. A comparison of g tensors and 1H hyperfine coupling constants of the PTB7-type oligomers with the high-performance PTB7 polymer revealed a delocalization of the positive polaron in the polymer over about four monomeric units, corresponding to about 45 Å in length. Our current study thus not only determines the polaron delocalization length in PTB7 but also validates the approach combining EPR/ENDOR spectroscopy with DFT-calculated magnetic resonance parameters. This is of importance in those cases where oligomers of defined length are not easily obtained. In addition, the delocalization of the neutral triplet exciton was also determined in the oligomers and compared with polymer PTB7. The analysis revealed that the neutral triplet exciton is substantially more delocalized than the positive polaron, exceeding 10 monomeric units.
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- Jens Niklas
- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division , Argonne National Laboratory , Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Physics, and Engineering Studies , Chicago State University , Chicago , Illinois 60628 , United States
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- Department of Chemistry and James Franck Institute , University of Chicago , Chicago , Illinois 60637 , United States
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- Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division , Argonne National Laboratory , Lemont , Illinois 60439 , United States
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Kendrick WJ, Jirásek M, Peeks MD, Greetham GM, Sazanovich IV, Donaldson PM, Towrie M, Parker AW, Anderson HL. Mechanisms of IR amplification in radical cation polarons. Chem Sci 2020; 11:2112-2120. [PMID: 34123299 PMCID: PMC8150116 DOI: 10.1039/c9sc05717j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2019] [Accepted: 12/12/2019] [Indexed: 12/30/2022] Open
Abstract
Break down of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is caused by mixing of electronic and vibrational transitions in the radical cations of some conjugated polymers, resulting in unusually intense vibrational bands known as infrared active vibrations (IRAVs). Here, we investigate the mechanism of this amplification, and show that it provides insights into intramolecular charge migration. Spectroelectrochemical time-resolved infrared (TRIR) and two-dimensional infrared (2D-IR) spectroscopies were used to investigate the radical cations of two butadiyne-linked conjugated porphyrin oligomers, a linear dimer and a cyclic hexamer. The 2D-IR spectra reveal strong coupling between all the IRAVs and the electronic π-π* polaron band. Intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution (IVR) and vibrational relaxation occur within ∼0.1-7 ps. TRIR spectra show that the transient ground state bleach (GSB) and excited state absorption (ESA) signals have anisotropies of 0.31 ± 0.07 and 0.08 ± 0.04 for the linear dimer and cyclic hexamer cations, respectively. The small TRIR anisotropy for the cyclic hexamer radical cation indicates that the vibrationally excited polaron migrates round the nanoring on a time scale faster than the measurement, i.e. within 0.5 ps, at 298 K. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations qualitatively reproduce the emergence of the IRAVs. The first singlet (S1) excited states of the neutral porphyrin oligomers exhibit similar IRAVs to the radical cations, implying that the excitons have similar electronic structures to polarons. Our results show that IRAVs originate from the strong coupling of charge redistribution to nuclear motion, and from the similar energies of electronic and vibrational transitions.
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- William J Kendrick
- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council Didcot OX11 0QX UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council Didcot OX11 0QX UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council Didcot OX11 0QX UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council Didcot OX11 0QX UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, Science and Technology Facilities Council Didcot OX11 0QX UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford, Chemistry Research Laboratory Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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Cook AR, Girimonti A, Sreearunothai P, Asaoka S, Miller JR. Dynamic broadening alters triplet extinction coefficients in fluorene oligomers and polymers. J Chem Phys 2020; 152:024901. [DOI: 10.1063/1.5132798] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
Affiliation(s)
- Andrew R. Cook
- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8585, Japan
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- Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA
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Ivanov MV, Wang D, Rathore R. From Static to Dynamic: Electron Density of HOMO at Biaryl Linkage Controls the Mechanism of Hole Delocalization. J Am Chem Soc 2018; 140:4765-4769. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b00466] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Maxim V. Ivanov
- Department of Chemistry, Marquette University,
P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Marquette University,
P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Marquette University,
P.O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201-1881, United States
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Steyrleuthner R, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Kraffert F, Cherniawski BP, Bittl R, Briseno AL, Bredas JL, Behrends J. Impact of morphology on polaron delocalization in a semicrystalline conjugated polymer. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 19:3627-3639. [PMID: 28094360 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07485e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We investigate the delocalization of holes in the semicrystalline conjugated polymer poly(2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophene-2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene) (PBTTT) by directly measuring the hyperfine coupling between photogenerated polarons and bound nuclear spins using electron nuclear double resonance spectroscopy. An extrapolation of the corresponding oligomer spectra reveals that charges tend to delocalize over 4.0-4.8 nm with delocalization strongly dependent on molecular order and crystallinity of the PBTTT polymer thin films. Density functional theory calculations of hyperfine couplings confirm that long-range corrected functionals appropriately describe the change in coupling strength with increasing oligomer size and agree well with the experimentally measured polymer limit. Our discussion presents general guidelines illustrating the various pitfalls and opportunities when deducing polaron localization lengths from hyperfine coupling spectra of conjugated polymers.
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- Robert Steyrleuthner
- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Joint EPR Lab, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Berlin, Germany.
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- King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Solar & Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia and Department of Chemistry, Hubei University, Wuhan 430062, China
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Conte Research Center, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Joint EPR Lab, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Conte Research Center, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Joint EPR Lab, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Conte Research Center, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, Solar & Photovoltaics Engineering Research Center, Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin Joint EPR Lab, Institut für Experimentalphysik, Berlin, Germany.
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Peeks MD, Tait CE, Neuhaus P, Fischer GM, Hoffmann M, Haver R, Cnossen A, Harmer JR, Timmel CR, Anderson HL. Electronic Delocalization in the Radical Cations of Porphyrin Oligomer Molecular Wires. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:10461-10471. [PMID: 28678489 PMCID: PMC5543395 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b05386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
Abstract
The radical cations of a family of π-conjugated porphyrin arrays have been investigated: linear chains of N = 1-6 porphyrins, a 6-porphyrin nanoring and a 12-porphyrin nanotube. The radical cations were generated in solution by chemical and electrochemical oxidation, and probed by vis-NIR-IR and EPR spectroscopies. The cations exhibit strong NIR bands at ∼1000 nm and 2000-5000 nm, which shift to longer wavelength with increasing oligomer length. Analysis of the NIR and IR spectra indicates that the polaron is delocalized over 2-3 porphyrin units in the linear oligomers. Some of the IR vibrational bands are strongly intensified on oxidation, and Fano-type antiresonances are observed when activated vibrations overlap with electronic transitions. The solution-phase EPR spectra of the radical cations have Gaussian lineshapes with linewidths proportional to N-0.5, demonstrating that at room temperature the spin hops rapidly over the whole chain on the time scale of the hyperfine coupling (ca. 100 ns). Direct measurement of the hyperfine couplings through electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) in frozen solution (80 K) indicates distribution of the spin over 2-3 porphyrin units for all the oligomers, except the 12-porphyrin nanotube, in which the spin is spread over about 4-6 porphyrins. These experimental studies of linear and cyclic cations give a consistent picture, which is supported by DFT calculations and multiparabolic modeling with a reorganization energy of 1400-2000 cm-1 and coupling of 2000 cm-1 for charge transfer between neighboring sites, placing the system in the Robin-Day class III.
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- Martin D Peeks
- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3QR, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3QR, United Kingdom
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- Centre for Advanced Electron Spin Resonance, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3QR, United Kingdom
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- Chemistry Research Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford , Oxford OX1 3TA, United Kingdom
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Zhao C, Sakurai T, Yoneda S, Seki S, Sugimoto M, Oki C, Takeuchi M, Sugiyasu K. Stabilization of Charge Carriers in Picket-Fence Polythiophenes Using Dielectric Side Chains. Chem Asian J 2016; 11:2284-90. [DOI: 10.1002/asia.201600738] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2016] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Chunhui Zhao
- Molecular Design & Function Group; National Institute for Materials Science; 1-2-1 Sengen Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0047 Japan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences; University of Tsukuba; 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8577 Japan
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- Department of Molecular Engineering; Graduate School of Engineering; Kyoto University; Nishikyo-ku Kyoto 615-8510 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry; Graduate School of Engineering; Osaka University; 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita Osaka 565-0871 Japan
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- Department of Molecular Engineering; Graduate School of Engineering; Kyoto University; Nishikyo-ku Kyoto 615-8510 Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry and Biochemistry; Graduate School of Science and Technology; Kumamoto University; 2-39-1 Kurokami Chuo-ku Kumamoto 860-8555 Japan
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- Department of Bioengineering; Nagaoka University of Technology; 1603-1 Kamitomioka Nagaoka Niigata 940-2188 Japan
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- Molecular Design & Function Group; National Institute for Materials Science; 1-2-1 Sengen Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0047 Japan
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering; Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences; University of Tsukuba; 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-8577 Japan
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- Molecular Design & Function Group; National Institute for Materials Science; 1-2-1 Sengen Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-0047 Japan
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Miura T, Tao R, Shibata S, Umeyama T, Tachikawa T, Imahori H, Kobori Y. Geometries, Electronic Couplings, and Hole Dissociation Dynamics of Photoinduced Electron–Hole Pairs in Polyhexylthiophene–Fullerene Dyads Rigidly Linked by Oligophenylenes. J Am Chem Soc 2016; 138:5879-85. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b13414] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Taku Miura
- Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1
Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Department
of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department
of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department
of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1
Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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- Department
of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
- Institute
for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department
of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kobe University, 1-1
Rokkodaicho, Nada-ku, Kobe 657-8501, Japan
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MacLean MWA, Kitao T, Suga T, Mizuno M, Seki S, Uemura T, Kitagawa S. Unraveling Inter- and Intrachain Electronics in Polythiophene Assemblies Mediated by Coordination Nanospaces. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015; 55:708-13. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201510084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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MacLean MWA, Kitao T, Suga T, Mizuno M, Seki S, Uemura T, Kitagawa S. Unraveling Inter- and Intrachain Electronics in Polythiophene Assemblies Mediated by Coordination Nanospaces. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201510084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Rawson J, Angiolillo PJ, Therien MJ. Extreme electron polaron spatial delocalization in π-conjugated materials. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2015; 112:13779-83. [PMID: 26512097 PMCID: PMC4653201 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512318112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The electron polaron, a spin-1/2 excitation, is the fundamental negative charge carrier in π-conjugated organic materials. Large polaron spatial dimensions result from weak electron-lattice coupling and thus identify materials with unusually low barriers for the charge transfer reactions that are central to electronic device applications. Here we demonstrate electron polarons in π-conjugated multiporphyrin arrays that feature vast areal delocalization. This finding is evidenced by concurrent optical and electron spin resonance measurements, coupled with electronic structure calculations that suggest atypically small reorganization energies for one-electron reduction of these materials. Because the electron polaron dimension can be linked to key performance metrics in organic photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes, and a host of other devices, these findings identify conjugated materials with exceptional optical, electronic, and spintronic properties.
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- Jeff Rawson
- Department of Chemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
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- Department of Physics, Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA 19131
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Rawson J, Angiolillo PJ, Frail PR, Goodenough I, Therien MJ. Electron Spin Relaxation of Hole and Electron Polarons in π-Conjugated Porphyrin Arrays: Spintronic Implications. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:7681-9. [PMID: 25697578 DOI: 10.1021/jp5122728] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopic line shape analysis and continuous-wave (CW) progressive microwave power saturation experiments are used to probe the relaxation behavior and the relaxation times of charged excitations (hole and electron polarons) in meso-to-meso ethyne-bridged (porphinato)zinc(II) oligomers (PZnn compounds), which can serve as models for the relevant states generated upon spin injection. The observed ESR line shapes for the PZnn hole polaron ([PZnn](+•)) and electron polaron ([PZnn](-•)) states evolve from Gaussian to more Lorentzian as the oligomer length increases from 1.9 to 7.5 nm, with solution-phase [PZnn](+•) and [PZnn](-•) spin-spin (T2) and spin-lattice (T1) relaxation times at 298 K ranging, respectively, from 40 to 230 ns and 0.2 to 2.3 μs. Notably, these very long relaxation times are preserved in thick films of these species. Because the magnitudes of spin-spin and spin-lattice relaxation times are vital metrics for spin dephasing in quantum computing or for spin-polarized transport in magnetoresistive structures, these results, coupled with the established wire-like transport behavior across metal-dithiol-PZnn-metal junctions, present meso-to-meso ethyne-bridged multiporphyrin systems as leading candidates for ambient-temperature organic spintronic applications.
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- Jeff Rawson
- †Department of Chemistry, French Family Science Center, Duke University, 124 Science Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0346, United States
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- ‡Department of Physics, Saint Joseph's University, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131, United States
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- §Department of Chemistry, The University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6323, United States
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- ‡Department of Physics, Saint Joseph's University, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131, United States
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- †Department of Chemistry, French Family Science Center, Duke University, 124 Science Drive, Durham, North Carolina 27708-0346, United States
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Pensack RD, Song Y, McCormick TM, Jahnke AA, Hollinger J, Seferos DS, Scholes GD. Evidence for the Rapid Conversion of Primary Photoexcitations to Triplet States in Seleno- and Telluro- Analogues of Poly(3-hexylthiophene). J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:2589-97. [DOI: 10.1021/jp5013347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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- Ryan D. Pensack
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H6, Canada
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Mike JF, Shao L, Jeon JW, Lutkenhaus JL. Charge Storage in Decyl- and 3,6,9-Trioxadecyl-Substituted Poly(dithieno[3,2-b:2,3-d]pyrrole) Electrodes. Macromolecules 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/ma402071k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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- Jared F. Mike
- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, United States
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- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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- Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, United States
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