Nature Communications (Sep 2021)
Approaching disorder-tolerant semiconducting polymers
- Xinwen Yan,
- Miao Xiong,
- Xin-Yu Deng,
- Kai-Kai Liu,
- Jia-Tong Li,
- Xue-Qing Wang,
- Song Zhang,
- Nathaniel Prine,
- Zhuoqiong Zhang,
- Wanying Huang,
- Yishan Wang,
- Jie-Yu Wang,
- Xiaodan Gu,
- Shu Kong So,
- Jia Zhu,
- Ting Lei
Affiliations
- Xinwen Yan
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- Miao Xiong
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- Xin-Yu Deng
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- Kai-Kai Liu
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- Jia-Tong Li
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- Xue-Qing Wang
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- Song Zhang
- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi
- Nathaniel Prine
- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi
- Zhuoqiong Zhang
- Department of Physics, Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Wanying Huang
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University
- Yishan Wang
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University
- Jie-Yu Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Science, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University
- Xiaodan Gu
- Center for Optoelectronic Materials and Devices, School of Polymer Science and Engineering, The University of Southern Mississippi
- Shu Kong So
- Department of Physics, Institute of Advanced Materials, Hong Kong Baptist University
- Jia Zhu
- Key Laboratory of Theoretical and Computational Photochemistry of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, Beijing Normal University
- Ting Lei
- Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26043-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
In conjugated polymers, n-doping is often limited by the tradeoff between doping efficiency and charge carrier mobilities, since dopants often randomly distribute within polymers, leading to significant structural and energetic disorder. Here, the authors screen a large number of polymer building block combinations and explore the possibility of designing n-type conjugated polymers with good tolerance to dopant-induced disorder.
