Unlocking Structure-Property Relationships in Composite Semiconducting Nanoparticles for Organic Solar Cells

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Colloidal dispersions of organic semiconducting nanoparticles (NPs) have shown promise for the generation of active layers in organic solar cells.Composite NPs containing a mixture of an electron donor and an electron acceptor are favoured to maximise the performance of the device. However, the exact location of the donor-acceptor material within each individual NP will affect the amount of photocurrent generated and this is highly dependent on the conditions used to synthesise the nanoparticles. In this study, contrast variation small-angle neutron scattering will be used to probe the internal organisation of composite nanoparticles prepared under different synthesis conditions (concentration, donor/acceptor ratio, solvent mixture). The structural organisation will be correlated with the performance of devices prepared using these materials to determine the optimum configuration.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.94115314
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/94115314
Provenance
Creator Dr Judith Houston; Professor Rachel Evans; Dr Sarah Rogers; Ms Elaine Kelly
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-10-23T08:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-10-26T08:00:00Z