Template-Assisted Fabrication of Highly Ordered Interpenetrating Polymeric Donor/Acceptor Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Applications

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Haberkorn, Niko ; Kim, Sehee ; Kim, Ki-Se ; Sommer, Michael ; Thelakkat, Mukundan ; Sohn, Byeong-Hyeok ; Theato, Patrick:
Template-Assisted Fabrication of Highly Ordered Interpenetrating Polymeric Donor/Acceptor Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Applications.
In: Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics. Vol. 212 (2011) Issue 19 . - pp. 2142-2150.
ISSN 1521-3935
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/macp.201100269

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The template-assisted fabrication of well-ordered interpenetrating donor/acceptor nanostructures based on polymeric semiconductors on conductive substrates is reported. Arrays of free-standing crosslinked tetraphenylbenzidine based nanorods are fabricated utilizing sacrificial AAO templates. TEM confirms the obtained donor/acceptor nanostructure morphology. The embedded nanorods show no aggregation and collapse of the rods within the film. Photoluminescence measurements reveal a more than three fold improvement in photoluminescence quenching relative to the planar bilayer architecture. The approach offers a versatile all-solution-based technique for the fabrication of well-ordered bulk heterojunction films with a large donor/acceptor interface for the application in polymer/polymer photovoltaic devices