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Title: Charge delocalization characteristics of regioregular high mobility polymers

Abstract

Controlling the regioregularity among the structural units of narrow bandgap conjugated polymer backbones has led to improvements in optoelectronic properties, for example in the mobilities observed in field effect transistor devices. To investigate how the regioregularity affects quantities relevant to hole transport, regioregular and regiorandom oligomers representative of polymeric structures were studied using density functional theory. Several structural and electronic characteristics of the oligomers were compared, including chain planarity, cation spin density, excess charges on molecular units and internal reorganizational energy. The main difference between the regioregular and regiorandom oligomers is found to be the conjugated backbone planarity, while the reorganizational energies calculated are quite similar across the molecular family. Lastly, this work constitutes the first step on understanding the complex interplay of atomistic changes and an oligomer backbone structure toward modeling the charge transport properties.

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Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1338770
Report Number(s):
LA-UR-16-21115
Journal ID: ISSN 2041-6520; CSHCBM
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Chemical Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8; Journal Issue: 2; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-6520
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; Material Science

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Coughlin, J. E., Zhugayevych, A., Wang, M., Bazan, G. C., and Tretiak, S. Charge delocalization characteristics of regioregular high mobility polymers. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1039/C6SC01599A.
Coughlin, J. E., Zhugayevych, A., Wang, M., Bazan, G. C., & Tretiak, S. Charge delocalization characteristics of regioregular high mobility polymers. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SC01599A
Coughlin, J. E., Zhugayevych, A., Wang, M., Bazan, G. C., and Tretiak, S. Sun . "Charge delocalization characteristics of regioregular high mobility polymers". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/C6SC01599A. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1338770.
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title = {Charge delocalization characteristics of regioregular high mobility polymers},
author = {Coughlin, J. E. and Zhugayevych, A. and Wang, M. and Bazan, G. C. and Tretiak, S.},
abstractNote = {Controlling the regioregularity among the structural units of narrow bandgap conjugated polymer backbones has led to improvements in optoelectronic properties, for example in the mobilities observed in field effect transistor devices. To investigate how the regioregularity affects quantities relevant to hole transport, regioregular and regiorandom oligomers representative of polymeric structures were studied using density functional theory. Several structural and electronic characteristics of the oligomers were compared, including chain planarity, cation spin density, excess charges on molecular units and internal reorganizational energy. The main difference between the regioregular and regiorandom oligomers is found to be the conjugated backbone planarity, while the reorganizational energies calculated are quite similar across the molecular family. Lastly, this work constitutes the first step on understanding the complex interplay of atomistic changes and an oligomer backbone structure toward modeling the charge transport properties.},
doi = {10.1039/C6SC01599A},
journal = {Chemical Science},
number = 2,
volume = 8,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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