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MACROMOLECULES
卷 47, 期 6, 页码 1981-1992出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma500286d
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- Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) [FA9550-13-1-0156]
- National Science Foundation [DGE-1144086]
- Initiative for Maximizing Student Development
- University of California, San Diego
This paper examines a series of poly(3-alkylthiophene)s (P3ATs), a class of materials for which mechanical compliance and electronic performance have been observed to be in competition. P3ATs with longer alkyl side chains (n >= 8) have high elasticity and ductility, but poor electronic performance (as manifested in photovoltaic efficiency in blends with fullerenes); P3ATs with shorter chains (n <= 6) exhibit the opposite characteristics. A series of four polymer films in which the average length of the side chain is n = 7 is tested using mechanical, spectroscopic, microscopic, and photovoltaic device:based measurements to determine whether or not it is possible, in principle, to maximize both mechanical and electronic performance in a single organic semiconductor (the best of both worlds). The four polymer samples are (1) a physical blend of equal parts P3HT and P3OT (P3HT:P3OT, n = 6 and n = 8), (2) a block copolymer (P3HT-b-P3OT), (3) a random copolymer (P3HT-co-P3OT), and (4) poly(3-heptylthiophene) (P3HpT, n = 7). The tensile moduli obtained by mechanical buckling correlate well with spectroscopic evidence (using the weakly interacting H aggregate model) of a well-ordered microstructure of the polymers. The block copolymer was the stiffest of the hybrid samples (680 +/- 180 MPa), while P3HpT exhibited maximum compliance (70 +/- 10 MPa) and power conversion efficiency in a 1:1 blend with the fullerene PC61BM using stretchable electrodes (PCE = 2.16 +/- 0.17%) that was similar to that of P3HT:PC61BM. These analyses may permit the design of organic semiconductors with improved mechanical and electronic properties for mechanically robust and stretchable applications.
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