UNDERSTANDING AND CONTROL OVER INTERMOLECULAR INTERACTIONS IN OPTOELECTRONICS
Hugo Bronstein a
a Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS)
Proceedings of MATSUS Spring 2025 Conference (MATSUSSpring25)
Understanding success of OSCs: stability and efficiency - #SuccessOPV
Sevilla, Spain, 2025 March 3rd - 7th
Organizers: Tracey Clarke and Vida Engmann
Invited Speaker, Hugo Bronstein, presentation 533
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusspring.2025.533
Publication date: 16th December 2024

Control of the molecular configuration at the interface of an organic heterojunction is key to the development of efficient optoelectronic devices. Due to the difficulty in characterizing these buried and (likely) disordered heterointerfaces the interfacial structure in most systems remains a mystery. Here, we demonstrate a novel synthetic strategy to design and control model interfaces, allowing for their detailed study in isolation from the bulk material. This is achieved by the synthesis of a polymer in which a non-fullerene acceptor moiety is covalently bonded to a donor polymer backbone using dual alkyl chain links, constraining the acceptor and donor units in a ‘through space’ co-facial arrangement. The constrained geometry of acceptor relative to electron rich and poor moieties in the polymer backbone can be tuned to control the kinetics of charge separation and the energy of the resultant charge-transfer state giving unprecedented insight into factors that govern charge generation at organic heterojunctions.

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