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Ghosh S, Raveendran R, Saeki A, Seki S, Namboothiry M, Ajayaghosh A. Charge Carrier Polarity Modulation in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Low Band Gap Semiconductors by Terminal Functionalization. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2019; 11:1088-1095. [PMID: 30543390 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b16714] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
Abstract
Organic semiconductors with variable charge carrier polarity are required for optoelectronic applications. Herein, we report the synthesis of three novel diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based D-A molecules having three different terminal groups (amide, ester, and dicyano) and study their electronic properties. An increase in electron acceptor strength from amide to dicyano leads to a bathochromic shift in absorption. Photoconductivity and field effect transistor (FET) measurements confirmed that a small increase in acceptor strength can result in a large change in the charge transport properties from p-type to n-type. The molecule with an amide group, DPP-amide, exhibited a moderate p-type mobility (1.3 × 10-2 cm2 V-1 s-1), whereas good n-type mobilities were observed for molecules with an ester moiety, DPP-ester (1.5 × 10-2 cm2 V-1 s-1), and with a dicyano group, DPP-DCV (1 × 10-2 cm2 V-1 s-1). The terminal functional group modification approach presented here is a simple and efficient method to alter the charge carrier polarity of organic semiconductors.
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- Samrat Ghosh
- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division , CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) , Thiruvananthapuram 695019 , India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) , CSIR-NIIST Campus , Thiruvananthapuram 695019 , India
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- School of Physics , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) , Thiruvananthapuram 695551 , India
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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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- School of Physics , Indian Institute of Science Education and Research-Thiruvananthapuram (IISER-TVM) , Thiruvananthapuram 695551 , India
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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division , CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST) , Thiruvananthapuram 695019 , India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) , CSIR-NIIST Campus , Thiruvananthapuram 695019 , India
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Chan AKW, Ng M, Wong YC, Chan MY, Wong WT, Yam VWW. Synthesis and Characterization of Luminescent Cyclometalated Platinum(II) Complexes with Tunable Emissive Colors and Studies of Their Application in Organic Memories and Organic Light-Emitting Devices. J Am Chem Soc 2017; 139:10750-10761. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.7b04952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alan Kwun-Wa Chan
- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
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- Department of Chemistry, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong, P.R. China
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Su HL, Sredojevic DN, Bronstein H, Marks TJ, Schroeder BC, Al-Hashimi M. Bithiazole: An Intriguing Electron-Deficient Building for Plastic Electronic Applications. Macromol Rapid Commun 2017; 38. [PMID: 28251727 DOI: 10.1002/marc.201600610] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2016] [Revised: 12/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The heterocyclic thiazole unit has been extensively used as electron-deficient building block in π-conjugated materials over the last decade. Its incorporation into organic semiconducting materials is particularly interesting due to its structural resemblance to the more commonly used thiophene building block, thus allowing the optoelectronic properties of a material to be tuned without significantly perturbing its molecular structure. Here, we discuss the structural differences between thiazole- and thiophene-based organic semiconductors, and the effects on the physical properties of the materials. An overview of thiazole-based polymers is provided, which have emerged over the past decade for organic electronic applications and it is discussed how the incorporation of thiazole has affected the device performance of organic solar cells and organic field-effect transistors. Finally, in conclusion, an outlook is presented on how thiazole-based polymers can be incorporated into all-electron deficient polymers in order to obtain high-performance acceptor polymers for use in bulk-heterojunction solar cells and as organic field-effect transistors. Computational methods are used to discuss some newly designed acceptor building blocks that have the potential to be polymerized with a fused bithiazole moiety, hence propelling the advancement of air-stable n-type organic semiconductors.
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- Haw-Lih Su
- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University at Qatar, P.O. Box 23874, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University at Qatar, P.O. Box 23874, Doha, Qatar
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- Department of Chemistry, Christopher Ingold Building, University College London, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Materials Research Center, and Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, USA
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- Materials Research Institute and School of Biological and Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University London, Mile End Road, London, E1 4NS, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, Texas A&M University at Qatar, P.O. Box 23874, Doha, Qatar
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Balan B, Panicker JS, Nagasawa S, Saeki A, Nair VC. Synthesis and Optoelectronic Properties of Thiophene-Based Semiconducting Oligomers. ChemistrySelect 2016. [DOI: 10.1002/slct.201601547] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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- Bijitha Balan
- Photosciences and Photonics Group; Chemical Sciences and Technology Division; CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST)
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- Photosciences and Photonics Group; Chemical Sciences and Technology Division; CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST)
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR); Trivandrum 695 019 India
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- Division of Applied Chemistry; Graduate School of Engineering; Osaka University; Japan
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- Division of Applied Chemistry; Graduate School of Engineering; Osaka University; Japan
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- Photosciences and Photonics Group; Chemical Sciences and Technology Division; CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST)
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR); Trivandrum 695 019 India
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Ghosh T, Gopal A, Nagasawa S, Mohan N, Saeki A, Vijayakumar C. Following the TRMC Trail: Optimization of Photovoltaic Efficiency and Structure-Property Correlation of Thiophene Oligomers. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:25396-404. [PMID: 27598737 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b07508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Semiconducting conjugated oligomers having same end group (N-ethylrhodanine) but different central core (thiophene: OT-T, bithiophene: OT-BT, thienothiophene: OT-TT) connected through thiophene pi-linker (alkylated terthiophene) were synthesized for solution processable bulk-heterojunction solar cells. The effect of the incorporation of an extra thiophene to the central thiophene unit either through C-C bond linkage to form bithiophene or by fusing two thiophenes together to form thienothiophene on the optoelectronic properties and photovoltaic performances of the oligomers were studied in detail. Flash photolysis time-resolved microwave conductivity (FP-TRMC) technique shows OT-TT has significantly higher photoconductivity than OT-T and OT-BT implying that the former can outperform the latter two derivatives by a wide margin under identical conditions in a bulk-heterojunction solar cell device. However, the initial photovoltaic devices fabricated from all three oligomers (with PC71BM as the acceptor) gave power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of about 0.7%, which was counterintuitive to the TRMC observation. By using TRMC results as a guiding tool, solution engineering was carried out; no remarkable changes were seen in the PCE of OT-T and OT-BT. On the other hand, 5-fold enhancement in the device efficiency was achieved in OT-TT (PCE: 3.52%, VOC: 0.80 V, JSC: 8.74 mA cm(-2), FF: 0.50), which was in correlation with the TRMC results. The structure-property correlation and the fundamental reasons for the improvement in device performance upon solvent engineering were deduced through UV-vis absorption, atomic force microscopy, bright-field transmission electron microscopy, photoluminescence quenching analysis and two-dimensional grazing incidence X-ray diffraction studies.
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- Tanwistha Ghosh
- Photosciences and Photonics Section, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) , Trivandrum 695019, Kerala India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) , New Delhi 110 001, India
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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 Applied Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University , 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) , Trivandrum 695019, Kerala India
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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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- Photosciences and Photonics Section, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST) , Trivandrum 695019, Kerala India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR) , New Delhi 110 001, India
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Direct arylation polycondensation for the synthesis of bithiazole-based conjugated polymers and their physical properties. Polym J 2016. [DOI: 10.1038/pj.2016.75] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Nair VS, Sun J, Qi P, Yang S, Liu Z, Zhang D, Ajayaghosh A. Conjugated Random Donor–Acceptor Copolymers of [1]Benzothieno[3,2-b]benzothiophene and Diketopyrrolopyrrole Units for High Performance Polymeric Semiconductor Applications. Macromolecules 2016. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b00954] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Vishnu Sukumaran Nair
- Photosciences
and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram 695019, India
- Academy of Scientific
and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST Campus, Thiruvananthapuram 695019, India
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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, P. R. 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, P. R. China
- University
of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. 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, P. R. China
- University
of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. 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, P. R. 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, P. R. China
- University
of
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Photosciences
and Photonics Section, Chemical Sciences and Technology Division, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (CSIR-NIIST), Thiruvananthapuram 695019, India
- Academy of Scientific
and Innovative Research (AcSIR), CSIR-NIIST Campus, Thiruvananthapuram 695019, India
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Yasuda T, Kuwabara J, Han L, Kanbara T. Photovoltaic Properties of Bithiazole-Based Polymers Synthesized by Direct C-H Arylation. J PHOTOPOLYM SCI TEC 2016. [DOI: 10.2494/photopolymer.29.347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Takeshi Yasuda
- Photovoltaic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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- Photovoltaic Materials Unit, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
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- Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba
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Zhang C, Zhang J, Zeng W, Zheng N, Li W, Gao W, Yu G, Yang C. Benzobisthiadiazole-alt-bithiazole copolymers with deep HOMO levels for good-performance field-effect transistors with air stability and a high on/off ratio. Polym Chem 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6py00212a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Two benzobisthiadiazole-alt-bithiazole copolymers were designed and synthesized, and the resulting transistors achieved high performance with air stability and a high on/off ratio.
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- Chen Zhang
- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials
- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials
- Department of Chemistry
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing
- People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials
- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials
- Department of Chemistry
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing
- People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials
- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials
- Department of Chemistry
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials
- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials
- Department of Chemistry
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences
- Institute of Chemistry
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Beijing
- People's Republic of China
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- Hubei Collaborative Innovation Center for Advanced Organic Chemical Materials
- Hubei Key Lab on Organic and Polymeric Optoelectronic Materials
- Department of Chemistry
- Wuhan University
- Wuhan
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Thiophene-bithiazole based metal-free dye as DSSC sensitizer: Effect of co-adsorbents on photovoltaic efficiency. J CHEM SCI 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s12039-015-0995-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Ghosh T, Gopal A, Saeki A, Seki S, Nair VC. p/n-Polarity of thiophene oligomers in photovoltaic cells: role of molecular vs. supramolecular properties. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:10630-9. [PMID: 25805168 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp01044f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Molecular and supramolecular properties play key roles in the optoelectronic properties and photovoltaic performances of organic materials. In the present work, we show how small changes in the molecular structure affect such properties, which in turn control the intrinsic and fundamental properties such as the p/n-polarity of organic semiconductors in bulk-heterojunction solar cells. Herein, we designed and synthesized two acceptor-donor-acceptor type semiconducting thiophene oligomers end-functionalized with oxazolone/isoxazolone derivatives (OT1 and OT2 respectively). The HOMO-LUMO energy levels of both derivatives were found to be positioned in such a way that they can act as electron acceptors to P3HT and electron donors to PCBM. However, OT1 functions as a donor (with PCBM) and OT2 as an acceptor (with P3HT) in BHJ photovoltaic cells, and their reverse roles results in either no or poor performance of the cells. Detailed studies using UV-vis absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, time-correlated single photon counting, UV-photoelectron spectroscopy, density functional theory calculations, X-ray diffraction, and thermal gravimetric analysis proved that both molecular and supramolecular properties contributed equally but in a contrasting manner to the abovementioned observation. The obtained results were further validated by flash-photolysis time-resolved microwave conductivity studies which showed an excellent correlation between the structure, property, and device performances of the materials.
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- Tanwistha Ghosh
- Photosciences and Photonics Section, CSIR-National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology (NIIST), Trivandrum 695 019, India.
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Lu W, Kuwabara J, Kuramochi M, Kanbara T. Synthesis of bithiazole-based crystalline polymers via palladium-catalyzed direct CH arylation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1002/pola.27611] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Wei Lu
- Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS); Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences; University of Tsukuba; 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba 305-8573 Japan
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- Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS); Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences; University of Tsukuba; 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba 305-8573 Japan
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- Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS); Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences; University of Tsukuba; 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba 305-8573 Japan
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- Tsukuba Research Center for Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS); Graduate School of Pure and Applied Sciences; University of Tsukuba; 1-1-1 Tennodai Tsukuba 305-8573 Japan
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Zhang L, Yu M, Peng Q, Zhao H, Gao J. Molecular design and theoretical investigation on the thieno[3,2-b]thienobis(silolothiophene)-based low band gap donor polymers for efficient polymer solar cell. MOLECULAR SIMULATION 2015. [DOI: 10.1080/08927022.2015.1008469] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Lin TJ, Lin ST. Theoretical study on the torsional potential of alkyl, donor, and acceptor substituted bithiophene: the hidden role of noncovalent interaction and backbone conjugation. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:4127-36. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp05379f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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The torsional potential of substituted bithiophene is influenced not only by steric repulsion, but also by backbone conjugation and noncovalent interactions.
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- Tzu-Jen Lin
- Department of Chemical Engineering
- National Taiwan University
- Taipei 10617
- Taiwan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
- National Taiwan University
- Taipei 10617
- Taiwan
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Hedström S, Tao Q, Wang E, Persson P. Rational design of D–A1–D–A2 conjugated polymers with superior spectral coverage. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:26677-89. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp03753k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Calculations and experiments elucidate factors governing how D–A1–D–A2 polymers offer fundamentally improved spectral coverage via allowed transitions to both acceptor LUMOs.
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- Svante Hedström
- Division of Theoretical Chemistry
- Lund University
- S-221 00 Lund
- Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/Polymer Technology
- Chalmers University of Technology
- S-412 96 Göteborg
- Sweden
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering/Polymer Technology
- Chalmers University of Technology
- S-412 96 Göteborg
- Sweden
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- Division of Theoretical Chemistry
- Lund University
- S-221 00 Lund
- Sweden
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Kuramochi M, Kuwabara J, Lu W, Kanbara T. Direct Arylation Polycondensation of Bithiazole Derivatives with Various Acceptors. Macromolecules 2014. [DOI: 10.1021/ma5014397] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Masahiro Kuramochi
- Tsukuba
Research Center for
Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS), Graduate School of Pure
and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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- Tsukuba
Research Center for
Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS), Graduate School of Pure
and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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- Tsukuba
Research Center for
Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS), Graduate School of Pure
and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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- Tsukuba
Research Center for
Interdisciplinary Materials Science (TIMS), Graduate School of Pure
and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba 305-8573, Japan
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Neubig A, Thelakkat M. Random vs. alternating donor-acceptor copolymers: A comparative study of absorption and field effect mobility. POLYMER 2014. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2014.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Theoretical design of donor-acceptor conjugated copolymers based on furo-, thieno-, and selenopheno[3,4-c] thiophene-4,6-dione and benzodithiophene units for organic solar cells. J Mol Model 2013; 19:4283-91. [DOI: 10.1007/s00894-013-1939-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2013] [Accepted: 07/08/2013] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Speros JC, Martinez H, Paulsen BD, White SP, Bonifas AD, Goff PC, Frisbie CD, Hillmyer MA. Effects of Olefin Content and Alkyl Chain Placement on Optoelectronic and Morphological Properties in Poly(thienylene vinylenes). Macromolecules 2013. [DOI: 10.1021/ma4009115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Joshua C. Speros
- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United
States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United
States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United
States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering
and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, 421Washington Avenue SE, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455-0132, United
States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, 207 Pleasant Street SE, Minneapolis,
Minnesota 55455-0431, United States
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Balan B, Vijayakumar C, Saeki A, Koizumi Y, Tsuji M, Seki S. Optical and electrical properties of dithienothiophene based conjugated polymers: medium donor vs. weak, medium, and strong acceptors. Polym Chem 2013. [DOI: 10.1039/c3py21127d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Wang H, Liu J, Han Y. Nano-fibrils formation of pBTTT via adding alkylthiol into solutions: Control of morphology and crystalline structure. POLYMER 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2012.11.073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Navamani K, Saranya G, Kolandaivel P, Senthilkumar K. Effect of structural fluctuations on charge carrier mobility in thiophene, thiazole and thiazolothiazole based oligomers. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2013; 15:17947-61. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cp53099j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Ide M, Koizumi Y, Saeki A, Seki S. Ambipolar Low-bandgap Copolymers Consisting of Dithienoketopyrrole for All-Polymer Solar Cells. J PHOTOPOLYM SCI TEC 2013. [DOI: 10.2494/photopolymer.26.217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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SAEKI A. Direct Evaluation of Organic Photovoltaic Performance by Xe-flash Time-Resolved Microwave Conductivity. KOBUNSHI RONBUNSHU 2013. [DOI: 10.1295/koron.70.370] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Jin E, Du C, Wang M, Li W, Li C, Wei H, Bo Z. Dibenzothiophene-Based Planar Conjugated Polymers for High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells. Macromolecules 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/ma301622g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Enquan Jin
- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory of Energy Conversion and Storage
Materials, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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Balan B, Vijayakumar C, Tsuji M, Saeki A, Seki S. Detection and Distinction of DNT and TNT with a Fluorescent Conjugated Polymer Using the Microwave Conductivity Technique. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:10371-8. [DOI: 10.1021/jp304791r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Bijitha Balan
- Department of Applied Chemistry,
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, 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 Applied Chemistry,
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
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- Department of Applied Chemistry,
Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), 4-1-8 Honcho Kawaguchi,
Saitama 332-0012, 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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Burkhart B, Khlyabich PP, Thompson BC. Influence of the Acceptor Composition on Physical Properties and Solar Cell Performance in Semi-Random Two-Acceptor Copolymers. ACS Macro Lett 2012; 1:660-666. [PMID: 35607083 DOI: 10.1021/mz300197c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
Abstract
Five novel semi-random poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) based donor-acceptor copolymers containing either thienopyrroledione (TPD) or both diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) and TPD acceptors were synthesized by Stille copolymerization, and their optical, electrochemical, charge transport, and photovoltaic properties were investigated. Poly(3-hexylthiophene-thiophene-thienopyrroledione) polymers P3HTT-TPD-10% and P3HTT-TPD-15% with either 10% or 15% acceptor content were synthesized as a point of reference. Two-acceptor polymers containing both TPD and DPP were synthesized with varying acceptor ratios to fine-tune electrooptical properties, namely, P3HTT-TPD-DPP (1:1) (7.5% TPD and 7.5% DPP), P3HTT-TPD-DPP (2:1) (10% TPD and 5% DPP), and P3HTT-TPD-DPP (1:2) (5% TPD and 10% DPP). The two-acceptor copolymers have broad and uniformly strong absorption profiles from 350-850 nm with absorption coefficients up to 8 × 104 cm-1 at ∼700 nm for P3HTT-TPD-DPP (1:2). This is reflected in the photocurrent responses of polymer:fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells with PC61BM as an acceptor where P3HTT-TPD-DPP (1:1) and P3HTT-TPD-DPP (1:2) have peak external quantum efficiency (EQE) values of 61% and 68% at 680 nm, respectively, and at 800 nm show impressive EQE values of 29% and 40%. Power conversion efficiencies in solar cells of P3HTT-TPD-10% and P3HTT-TPD-15% are moderate (2.08% and 2.22%, respectively), whereas two-acceptor copolymers achieve high efficiencies between 3.94% and 4.93%. The higher efficiencies are due to a combination of very large short-circuit current densities exceeding 16 mA/cm2 for P3HTT-TPD-DPP (1:2), which are among the highest published values for polymer solar cells and are considerably higher than those of previously published two-acceptor polymers, as well as fill factors over 0.60. These results indicate that semi-random copolymers containing multiple distinct acceptor monomers are a very promising class of polymers able to achieve large current densities and high efficiencies due to favorable properties such as semicrystallinity, high hole mobility, and importantly broad, uniform, and strong absorption of the solar spectrum.
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- Beate Burkhart
- Department of Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon
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Institute, and Center for Energy Nanoscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1661,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon
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Institute, and Center for Energy Nanoscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1661,
United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Loker Hydrocarbon
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Institute, and Center for Energy Nanoscience, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-1661,
United States
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