Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Making silver a stronger n-dopant than cesium via in situ coordination reaction for organic electronics

  • Zhengyang Bin,
  • Guifang Dong,
  • Pengcheng Wei,
  • Ziyang Liu,
  • Dongdong Zhang,
  • Rongchuan Su,
  • Yong Qiu,
  • Lian Duan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08821-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Controlled doping of organic semiconductors is required to enhance charge injection in organic electronics, but the lack of suitable n-dopants with small ionization energy remains elusive. Here, the authors report air-stable metals that act as strong n-dopants in molecules with chelating ligands.