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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 30, Pages 5436-5441Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b905708k
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB 481]
- BP Solar
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
- ESF (EUROCORES SOHYDs)
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/E031471/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/E031471/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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A series of donor-acceptor diblock copolymers with varying molecular weight are studied in thin film and compared with an 'equivalent' blend formed from donor and acceptor homopolymers. Steady-state and transient spectroscopies are used to demonstrate a correlation between low molecular weight block copolymers and increased photoluminescence quenching (up to 99%) leading to higher yields of long-lived free charges. Such block copolymers are shown, by electron microscopy, to exhibit phase-segregated micrdomains whose size and periodicity are determined by their molecular weight. Photovoltaic devices made using these materials show a peak efficiency of 0.11% and correlate with our spectroscopic results, subject to a trade-off between charge generation and tranpsort/collection.
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