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A new supramolecular route for using rod-coil block copolymers in photovoltaic applications

Sary, Nicolas ; Richard, Fanny ; Brochon, Cyril ; Leclerc, Nicolas ; Lévêque, Patrick ; Audinot, Jean-Nicolas ; Berson, Solenn ; Heiser, Thomas ; Hadziioannou, Georges ; Mezzenga, Raffaele

In: Advanced Materials, 2010, vol. 22, no. 6, p. 763-768

A new polymer blend formed by poly(3-hexylthiophene)-poly(4-vinylpyridine) (P3HT- P4VP) block copolymers and [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is reported. The P4VP and PCBM are mixed together by weak supramolecular interactions, and the resulting materials exhibit microphase separated morphologies of electron-donor and electron-acceptor rich domains. The properties of the blend,...

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Synthesis of poly(paraphenylene vinylene) - polystyrene-based rod-coil block copolymer by atom transfer radical polymerization: Toward a self-organized lamellar semiconducting material

Brochon, Cyril ; Sary, Nicolas ; Mezzenga, Raffaele ; Ngov, Chheng ; Richard, Fanny ; May, Michaël ; Hadziioannou, Georges

In: Journal of Applied Polymer Science, 2008, vol. 110, no. 6, p. 3664 - 3670

Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) was used as a versatile route to well-defined poly(diethylhexyl-p-phenylenevinylene-b-styrene) (PPV-b-PS) semiconducting block copolymers. For this purpose, original conjugated macroinitiators were synthesized from DEH-PPV and further used for the copolymerization reaction. The microphase-separated morphologies obtained with the semiconducting PPV-b-PS...