Electrospun Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Hybrid Fibers: Photoactive Blends, Conductivity through Tunneling-AFM, Light Scattering, and Perspective for Their Use in Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

Yang, Zhenhua; Moffa, Maria; Liu, Ying; Li, Hongfei; Persano, Luana; Camposeo, Andrea; Saija, Rosalba; Iati, Maria Antonia; Marago, Onofrio M.; Pisignano, Dario; Nam, Chang-Yong; Zussman, Eyal; Rafailovich, Miriam

doi:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11188

Title: Electrospun Conjugated Polymer/Fullerene Hybrid Fibers: Photoactive Blends, Conductivity through Tunneling-AFM, Light Scattering, and Perspective for Their Use in Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

Journal Article · 25 January 2018 · Journal of Physical Chemistry. C

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b11188 · OSTI ID:1431454

Yang, Zhenhua ^[1]; Moffa, Maria ^[2]; Liu, Ying ^[1];

^[1]; Persano, Luana ^[2]; Camposeo, Andrea ^[2]; Saija, Rosalba ^[3]; Iati, Maria Antonia ^[4]; Marago, Onofrio M. ^[4];

^[5];

^[6]; Zussman, Eyal ^[7]; Rafailovich, Miriam ^[1]

Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
National Enterprise for NanoScience and NanoTechnology (NEST), Pisa (Italy)
Univ. di Messina, Messina (Italy). Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra
Istituto per i processi chimico-fisici (IPCF) Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche (CNR), Messina (Italy)
National Enterprise for NanoScience and NanoTechnology (NEST), Pisa (Italy); Univ. del Salento, via Arnesano, Lecce (Italy). Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica "Ennio De Giorgi"
Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN)
Technion-Israel Inst. of Technology, Haifa (Israel). Dept. of Mechanical Engineering

Hybrid conjugated polymer/fullerene filaments based on MEH-PPV/PVP/PCBM were prepared by electrospinning, and their properties were assessed by scanning electron, atomic and lateral-force, tunneling, and confocal microscopies, as well as by attenuated-total-reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, photoluminescence quantum yield, and spatially resolved fluorescence. Highlighted features include the ribbon shape of the realized fibers and the persistence of a network serving as a template for heterogeneous active layers in solar cell devices. A set of favorable characteristics is evidenced in this way in terms of homogeneous charge-transport behavior and formation of effective interfaces for diffusion and dissociation of photogenerated excitons. The interaction of the organic filaments with light, exhibiting specific light-scattering properties of the nanofibrous mat, might also contribute to spreading incident radiation across the active layers, thus potentially enhancing photovoltaic performance. Finally, this method might be applied to other electron donor–electron acceptor material systems for the fabrication of solar cell devices enhanced by nanofibrillar morphologies embedding conjugated polymers and fullerene compounds.

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Research Organization:: Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0012704

OSTI ID:: 1431454

Report Number(s):: BNL-203461-2018-JAAM; TRN: US1802649

Journal Information:: Journal of Physical Chemistry. C, Vol. 122, Issue 5; ISSN 1932-7447

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