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Impact of Fluorine Substituents on π‐Conjugated Polymer Main‐Chain Conformations, Packing, and Electronic Couplings
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Impact of Fluorine Substituents on π‐Conjugated Polymer Main‐Chain Conformations, Packing, and Electronic Couplings

Khanh Do, Qasim Saleem, Mahesh Kumar Ravva, Federico Cruciani, Zhipeng Kan, Jannic Wolf, Michael Ryan Hansen, Pierre M. Beaujuge and Jean‐Luc Brédas
Advanced materials (Weinheim), Vol.28(37), pp.8197-8205
01/10/2016
PMID: 27411743

Abstract

molecular dynamics organic electronics solid‐state nuclear magnetic resonance thin‐film morphology π‐conjugated polymers
Taking the π‐conjugated polymers PBDT[2X]T (X = H, F) as model systems, the effects of fluorine substitution on main‐chain conformations, packing, and electronic couplings are examined. This combination of molecular dynamics simulations and solid‐state NMR shows that a higher propensity for backbone planarity in PBDT[2F]T leads to more pronounced, yet staggered, chain stacking, which generally leads to higher electronic couplings and binding energy between neighboring chains.

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