Why Can High Charge-Carrier Mobilities be Achieved Along π-Conjugated Polymer Chains with Alternating Donor-Acceptor Moieties?
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ArticleKAUST Department
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)Laboratory for Computational and Theoretical Chemistry of Advanced Materials
Material Science and Engineering Program
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2018-05-28Online Publication Date
2018-05-28Print Publication Date
2018-07Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/630418
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Impressive charge-carrier mobilities have been measured over the past few years for a number of well-oriented π-conjugated polymer chains. Intriguingly, these polymers frequently have complex chemical structures consisting of repeat units with alternating electron-rich and electron-poor moieties. A priori, such structures do not lend themselves to the presence of strongly dispersive valence or conduction electronic bands, which are required to achieve small charge-carrier effective masses. Here, the factors that can lead to high carrier mobilities in the tens or even hundreds of square centimeter per volt per second are described briefly.Citation
Brédas J-L, Li Y, Sun H, Zhong C (2018) Why Can High Charge-Carrier Mobilities be Achieved Along π-Conjugated Polymer Chains with Alternating Donor-Acceptor Moieties? Advanced Theory and Simulations 1: 1800016. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/adts.201800016.Sponsors
Office of Naval Research (ONR). Grant Number: N00014-17-1-2208Publisher
WileyJournal
Advanced Theory and SimulationsAdditional Links
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adts.201800016ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1002/adts.201800016