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JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS
Volume 49, Issue 10, Pages 717-724Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/polb.22244
Keywords
additives; blends; charge transport; conjugated polymers; crystallization; fullerenes
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through the Supergen [EP/G031088/1]
- Nanotechnology Grand Challenges [EP/F056710/1]
- Konarka Technologies
- UK Carbon Trust
- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G031088/1, EP/F016255/1, EP/F000375/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/G031088/1, EP/F016255/1, EP/F000375/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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The effect of the addition of 1,8-octanedithiol (ODT) during processing on the microstructure of blend films of poly[2,6-(4,4-bis-(2-ethylhexyl)-4H-cyclopenta[2,1-b;3,4-b']dithiophene)-alt-4,7(2,1,3-benzothiadiazole)] (PCPDTBT) and [6,6]-phenyl-C-71 butyric acid methyl ester ([70]PCBM) is studied. Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and absorption spectroscopy show that the crystalline order of PCPDTBT increases when ODT is introduced in the solution phase either to neat polymer systems or to blends with [70] PCBM. The increased crystalline order is accompanied by less dispersive hole transport in the polymer, and leads to a more efficient formation of a percolating fullerene network within the blend. This contributes to an increase in photocurrent generation. However, the bimolecular recombination rate as determined from photovoltage transients increases upon addition of ODT, limiting the power conversion efficiency to values well below those expected from the energy levels of PCPDTBT. We propose some explanations for this increase in bimolecular recombination, based also on variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometry measurements. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 49: 717-724, 2011
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