Delocalization Drives Free Charge Generation in Conjugated Polymer Films
Abstract
We demonstrate that the product of photoinduced electron transfer between a conjugated polymer host and a dilute molecular sensitizer is controlled by the structural state of the polymer. Ordered semicrystalline solids exhibit free charge generation, while disordered polymers in the melt phase do not. We use photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) measurements to sweep through polymer melt transitions in situ. Free charge generation measured by TRMC turns off upon melting, whereas PL quenching of the molecular sensitizers remains constant, implying unchanged electron transfer efficiency. The key difference is the intermolecular order of the polymer host in the solid state compared to the melt. We propose that this order-disorder transition modulates the localization length of the initial charge-transfer state, which controls the probability of free charge formation.
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- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States); Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1426641
- Report Number(s):
- NREL/JA-5900-70921
Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC36-08GO28308
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Energy Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 3; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 2380-8195
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; polymer microstructure; free charge generation; time-resolved microwave conductivity
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Pace, Natalie A., Reid, Obadiah G., and Rumbles, Garry. Delocalization Drives Free Charge Generation in Conjugated Polymer Films. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00108.
Pace, Natalie A., Reid, Obadiah G., & Rumbles, Garry. Delocalization Drives Free Charge Generation in Conjugated Polymer Films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00108
Pace, Natalie A., Reid, Obadiah G., and Rumbles, Garry. Mon .
"Delocalization Drives Free Charge Generation in Conjugated Polymer Films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00108. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1426641.
@article{osti_1426641,
title = {Delocalization Drives Free Charge Generation in Conjugated Polymer Films},
author = {Pace, Natalie A. and Reid, Obadiah G. and Rumbles, Garry},
abstractNote = {We demonstrate that the product of photoinduced electron transfer between a conjugated polymer host and a dilute molecular sensitizer is controlled by the structural state of the polymer. Ordered semicrystalline solids exhibit free charge generation, while disordered polymers in the melt phase do not. We use photoluminescence (PL) and time-resolved microwave conductivity (TRMC) measurements to sweep through polymer melt transitions in situ. Free charge generation measured by TRMC turns off upon melting, whereas PL quenching of the molecular sensitizers remains constant, implying unchanged electron transfer efficiency. The key difference is the intermolecular order of the polymer host in the solid state compared to the melt. We propose that this order-disorder transition modulates the localization length of the initial charge-transfer state, which controls the probability of free charge formation.},
doi = {10.1021/acsenergylett.8b00108},
journal = {ACS Energy Letters},
number = 3,
volume = 3,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {2}
}
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Figure 1: (a) Model System 1: P3DDT and Pc2 structures (b) Model System 2: PFO and C60-4-1 structures (c) Absorption spectrum of the P3DDT/Pc2 sensitized system (d) Absorption spectrum of the PFO/C60-4-1 sensitized system.
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