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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 133, Issue 26, Pages 10119-10133Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja200054z
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- Israel Science Foundation [943/08]
- Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute in the Technion
- U.S. National Science Foundation [CBET-0829182]
- USARO through the Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies [W911NF-09-D-0001]
- AmberWave, Inc.
- U.S. NSF [DMR-0520415, NSF-DGE 0801627]
- U.S. Department of Energy through the Institute for Multiscale Materials at Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Warren and Katharine Schlinger Foundation
- EU [230810]
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The chemical compositions and structures of organic-inorganic interfaces in mesostructurally ordered conjugated polymer-titania nanocomposites are shown to have a predominant influence on their photovoltaic properties. Such interfaces can be controlled by using surfactant structure-directing agents (SDAs) with different architectures and molecular weights to promote contact between the highly hydrophobic electron-donating conjugated polymer species and hydrophilic electron-accepting titania frameworks. A combination of small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS), scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM, TEM), and solid-state NMR spectroscopy yields insights on the compositions, structures, and distributions of inorganic and organic species within the materials over multiple length scales. Two-dimensional NMR analyses establish the molecular-level interactions between the different SDA blocks, the conjugated polymer, and the titania framework, which are correlated with steady-state and time-resolved photoluminescence measurements of the photoexcitation dynamics of the conjugated polymer and macroscopic photocurrent generation in photovoltaic devices. Molecular understanding of the compositions and chemical interactions at organic-inorganic interfaces are shown to enable the design, synthesis, and control of the photovoltaic properties of hybrid functional materials.
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