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NEW JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY
Volume 45, Issue 32, Pages 14815-14821Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1nj02793j
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- Russian Science Foundation [19-7300099]
- ERANet RUS Plus Plasmon Electrolight
- FWO funding (RFBR) [18-53-76006 ERA]
- Russian Foundation for Basic Research [20-07-00181 A]
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Photoactive layers were prepared using aryl- and aryloxy-substituted naphthalocyanines and a conductive polymer, with their conductivity tested in different lighting conditions. The naphthalocyanine derivatives showed strong near-infrared absorption, while composites with phenyl-substituted naphthalocyanines exhibited a higher photo-resistive effect.
Photoactive layers based on aryl- and aryloxy-substituted naphthalocyanines and conductive polymer poly[2-methoxy-5-(2 '-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] (MEH-PPV) were prepared using the spin-coating technique and their conductivity was tested in dark and under illumination. For this purpose novel octa-2-naphthoxy-substituted naphthalocyanines were synthesized starting from 6,7-di(2-naphthoxy)naphthalene-2,3-dicarbonitrile. For those novel naphthalocyanine complexes, spectral and electrochemical data were measured and compared with corresponding ones for other aryl-substituted analogues. In comparison to the previously studied naphthalocyanines with alkyl- and phenyl-groups, the formal oxidation and reduction potentials were rather similar. All target complexes demonstrate intense near-infrared absorption at 760-790 nm, which is about 30 nm bathochromically shifted in thin films. The photo-resistive effect was found to increase from composites comprised of naphthoxy- to phenyl-substituted naphthalocyanines. This peculiarity was explained by using optical and atomic force microscopy in terms of different sizes of the aggregates formed. The photo-response time for the novel composites was approximately 3 s, which is about 20 times faster than measured previously for the films deposited via the drop-casting technique.
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