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    Role of Molecular Weight Distribution on Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers

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    Authors
    Himmelberger, Scott
    Vandewal, Koen
    Fei, Zhuping
    Heeney, Martin cc
    Salleo, Alberto
    KAUST Grant Number
    KUS-C1-015-21
    Date
    2014-10-16
    Online Publication Date
    2014-10-16
    Print Publication Date
    2014-10-28
    Permanent link to this record
    http://hdl.handle.net/10754/599532
    
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    Abstract
    © 2014 American Chemical Society. Model semiconducting polymer blends of well-controlled molecular weight distributions are fabricated and demonstrated to be a simple method to control intermolecular disorder without affecting intramolecular order or degree of aggregation. Mobility measurements exhibit that even small amounts of low molecular weight material are detrimental to charge transport. Trends in charge carrier mobility can be reproduced by a simple analytical model which indicates that carriers have no preference for high or low molecular weight chains and that charge transport is limited by interchain hopping. These results quantify the role of long polymer tie-chains and demonstrate the need for controlled polydispersity for achieving high carrier mobilities.
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    Himmelberger S, Vandewal K, Fei Z, Heeney M, Salleo A (2014) Role of Molecular Weight Distribution on Charge Transport in Semiconducting Polymers. Macromolecules 47: 7151–7157. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ma501508j.
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    S.H. would like to thank the National Science Foundation for support in the form of a Graduate Research Fellowship. This work was supported by the Center for Advanced Molecular Photovoltaics (CAMP) (Award No KUS-C1-015-21) made by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). M.H. and Z.F. thank the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (Grant Number EP/G060738/1) for funding. Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515.
    Publisher
    American Chemical Society (ACS)
    Journal
    Macromolecules
    DOI
    10.1021/ma501508j
    ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
    10.1021/ma501508j
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