Université de Fribourg

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...

Université de Fribourg

Self-assembly of rod-coil block copolymers for photovoltaic applications

Sary, Nicolas ; Rubatat, Laurent ; Brochon, Cyril ; Hadziioannou, Georges ; Mezzenga, Raffaele

In: Macromolecular Symposia, 2008, vol. 268, no. 1, p. 28-32

Two different approaches to obtain electron donor-acceptor interfaces via self-assembly of block copolymer systems are discussed, where the donor domains are formed by a π-conjugated rod-like polymer and the acceptor domains result from a coiled polymer modified by C₆₀ fullerenes. In the first strategy, C₆₀ is chemically grafted onto the coil polymer, typically a statistical...