Surfactant-Controlled Assembly of Amphiphilic Diblock Polythiophenes

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Conjugated polythiophenes (PTs) have emerged as a promising class of material in organic solar cells. The device performance depends on the inherently-linked optoelectronic properties and nanoscale morphology of the PT. Hence, there is substantial interest in developing novel approaches to control the morphology of PTs. In this study we will investigate if the co-assembly of cationic, diblock PTs with anionic surfactants can be used to form PT-surfactant complexes with targeted organisation. Using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) we intend to observe the global and internal structural organisation of the PT-surfactant aggregates formed. Optical spectroscopy will also be used to correlate the aggregate structure with the photophysical properties.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.60998892
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/60998892
Provenance
Creator Professor Rachel Evans; Dr Judith Houston
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-06-08T13:34:24Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-06-23T15:32:05Z