Chain-growth polycondensation of perylene diimide-based copolymers: a new route to regio-regular perylene diimide-based acceptors for all-polymer solar cells and n-type transistors
| Autor: | Anton Kiriy, Antonio Facchetti, Marcel Schubert, Roman Tkachov, Volodymyr Senkovskyy, Dieter Neher, Z. Wei, W. Liu, Hartmut Komber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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chemistry.chemical_classification
Materials science Polymers and Plastics Organic Chemistry Radical polymerization Cationic polymerization Institut für Physik und Astronomie Bioengineering Polymer Photochemistry Biochemistry Polymer solar cell End-group chemistry Polymerization Polymer chemistry Living polymerization Coordination polymerization |
| Zdroj: | Polym. Chem.. 5:3404-3411 |
| ISSN: | 1759-9962 1759-9954 |
| DOI: | 10.1039/c3py01707a |
| Popis: | Herein, we report the chain-growth tin-free room temperature polymerization method to synthesize n-type perylene diimide-dithiophene-based conjugated polymers (PPDIT2s) suitable for solar cell and transistor applications. The palladium/electron-rich tri-tert-butylphosphine catalyst is effective to enable the chain-growth polymerization of anion-radical monomer Br-TPDIT-Br/Zn to PPDIT2 with a molecular weight up to M-w approximate to 50 kg mol(-1) and moderate polydispersity. This is the second example of the polymerization of unusual anion-radical aromatic complexes formed in a reaction of active Zn and electron-deficient diimide-based aryl halides. As such, the discovered polymerization method is not a specific reactivity feature of the naphthalene-diimide derivatives but is rather a general polymerization tool. This is an important finding, given the significantly higher maximum external quantum efficiency that can be reached with PDI-based copolymers (32-45%) in all-polymer solar cells compared to NDI-based materials (15-30%). Our studies revealed that PPDIT2 synthesized by the new method and the previously published polymer prepared by step-growth Stille polycondensation show similar electron mobility and all-polymer solar cell performance. At the same time, the polymerization reported herein has several technological advantages as it proceeds relatively fast at room temperature and does not involve toxic tin-based compounds. Because several chain-growth polymerization reactions are well-suited for the preparation of well-defined multi-functional polymer architectures, the next target is to explore the utility of the discovered polymerization in the synthesis of end-functionalized polymers and block copolymers. Such materials would be helpful to improve the nanoscale morphology of polymer blends in all-polymer solar cells. |
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