Charge generation and morphology in P3HT : PCBM nanoparticles prepared by mini-emulsion and reprecipitation methods

Kyra N. Schwarz; Sam B. Farley; Trevor A. Smith; Kenneth P. Ghiggino

doi:10.1039/C5NR06244F

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Charge generation and morphology in P3HT : PCBM nanoparticles prepared by mini-emulsion and reprecipitation methods†

Kyra N. Schwarz,^a Sam B. Farley,^a Trevor A. Smith^a and Kenneth P. Ghiggino*^a

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^a School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
E-mail: ghiggino@unimelb.edu.au

Abstract

Organic semiconductor nanoparticles provide a potentially scalable approach for photovoltaics that can be processed from aqueous media. Particles of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) : phenyl-C₆₁-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) were prepared using two techniques; those produced by a mini-emulsion method contained greater amounts of crystalline P3HT domains with charge generation resembling phase-separated annealed solvent-cast films.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR06244F
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 10 Sept. 2015
Accepted: 05 Nov. 2015
First published: 06 Nov. 2015

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Nanoscale, 2015,7, 19899-19904

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Charge generation and morphology in P3HT : PCBM nanoparticles prepared by mini-emulsion and reprecipitation methods

K. N. Schwarz, S. B. Farley, T. A. Smith and K. P. Ghiggino, Nanoscale, 2015, 7, 19899 DOI: 10.1039/C5NR06244F

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