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JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL THEORY AND COMPUTATION
卷 14, 期 12, 页码 6495-6504出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.8b00742
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- Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Research Science and Engineering
- Argonne National Laboratory
Large, twisted, and fused conjugated molecular architectures have begun to appear more prominently in the organic semiconductor literature. From a modeling perspective, such structures present a challenge to conventional simulation techniques; atomistic resolutions are computationally inefficient, while traditional isotropic coarse-grained models do not capture the inherent anisotropies of the molecules. In this work, we develop a simple coarse-grained model that explicitly incorporates the anisotropy of these molecular architectures, thereby providing a route toward analyzing pi-stacking, and thus qualitative electronic structure, at a computationally efficient coarse-grained resolution. Our simple coarse-grained model maintains relative orientations of conjugated rings, as well as inter-ring dihedrals, that are critical for understanding electronic and excitonic transport in bulk systems. We apply this model to understand structural correlations in several recently synthesized perylene diimide (PDI)-based organic semiconductors. Twisted and nonplanar molecular architectures are found to promote amorphous morphologies while maintaining local pi-stacking. A graph theoretical network analysis demonstrates that these twisted molecules are more likely to form percolating three-dimensional pathways for charge motion than strictly planar molecules, which show connectivity in only one dimension.
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