Polaron stability in semiconducting polymer neat films

Daniel Beatrup; Jessica Wade; Laure Biniek; Hugo Bronstein; Michael Hurhangee; Ji-Seon Kim; Iain McCulloch; James R. Durrant

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Polaron stability in semiconducting polymer neat films†

Daniel Beatrup,^a Jessica Wade,^a Laure Biniek,^ab Hugo Bronstein,^a Michael Hurhangee,^a Ji-Seon Kim,^a Iain McCulloch*^a and James R. Durrant*^a

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^a Centre for Plastic Electronics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, UK
E-mail: j.durrant@imperial.ac.uk, i.mcculloch@ic.ac.uk

^b Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS-Université de Strasbourg, 23 rue du Loess, 67034 Strasbourg, France

Abstract

We describe a spectroelectrochemical approach to accelerated electrochemical stability studies of conjugated polymers under oxidative stress. The polaron stabilities of alternating copolymers based on (i) thiophene and thiazole, namely PTTz, and (ii) bithiophene and thiazole, namely PTTTz, are compared in neat films with that of P3HT. P3HT is found to be the most stable whilst PTTz is found to be the least stable.

This article is part of the themed collection: 2022 Journal of Materials Chemistry Lectureship runners-up: Jessica Wade and Luisa Whittaker-Brooks

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CC06193D
Article type: Communication
Submitted: 07 Aug. 2014
Accepted: 25 Sept. 2014
First published: 26 Sept. 2014

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Chem. Commun., 2014,50, 14425-14428

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Polaron stability in semiconducting polymer neat films

D. Beatrup, J. Wade, L. Biniek, H. Bronstein, M. Hurhangee, J. Kim, I. McCulloch and J. R. Durrant, Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 14425 DOI: 10.1039/C4CC06193D

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