Surface segregation and topographical excitation in stoichiometric polymer:fullerene thin films: impact on organic electronics

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We propose to study the kinetics and thermodynamics of polymer:fullerene composite association to provide insight into engineering increased efficiency organic photovoltaics. The structure of P:NP thin films can be designed by controlling P:NP miscibility, as well as non-equilibrium effects from solution and thermal processing. We demonstrated that, varying polymer Mw and P:NP stoichiometry, a variety of lateral morphologies can be obtained, ranging from uniformity to spinodal-like connectivity. Reflectometry is required to complement ongoing work in dynamic & static light scattering and AFM. Specifically, we seek to examine: (a) the composition stratification orthogonal to the film and (b) the mechanism of topographical surface excitation.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088564
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088564
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Creator Professor Joao Cabral; Mr Him Wong; Dr Robert Dalgliesh; Mr Rajeev Dattani; Dr Alisyn Nedoma; Mr Angus Bayley; Dr Valeria Arrighi; Mr Carlos Gonzalez Lopez
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2015
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2012-03-02T12:11:32Z
Temporal Coverage End 2012-03-08T17:02:54Z