A facile cosolvent/chelation method for the preparation of semi-crystalline CuCl2(ethylene glycol)/poly(3-hexylthiophene) complexes displaying specific luminescence properties

Fang-Hsien Lu, Mohamed Gamal Mohamed, Tzeng-Feng Liu, Chuen-Guang Chao, Shiao Wei Kuo

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Abstract

Semi-crystalline CuCl2(ethylene glycol)/poly(3-hexylthiophene) complexes (CE-P3HT) with specific textures and self-assembled structures can be fabricated using a facile co-solvent/chelation method. The morphologies and self-assembled structures of these CE-P3HT complexes were dependent on the concentration of CuCl2(ethylene glycol) (CuCl(2)EG) in solution. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) revealed the CE-P3HT sample comprising EG and numerous CuCl2/P3HT dots (C-P3HT dots) that originated from the P3HT main chains interacting with CuCl2 crystals; the average size of this C-P3HT dots was ca. 20 nm. Prior to formation of the solid state of CE-P3HT structures, the CE-P3HT complex in solution displayed a novel phenomenon: a specific luminescence property with an absorption energy gap of 3.71-4.46 eV. This quantum effect resulted from the chelates formed between the Cu2+ ions and the thioether units of the conjugated P3HT polymer.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)87723-87729
Number of pages7
JournalRSC Advances
Volume5
Issue number106
DOIs
StatePublished - 2015

Keywords

  • LIGHT-EMITTING-DIODES
  • PHOTOLUMINESCENCE QUANTUM EFFICIENCY
  • DESIGN
  • POLYMER NANOPARTICLES
  • DEVICE
  • photovoltaic cells
  • P3HT
  • nanorods
  • Energy-transfer
  • Dots

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