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

doi:10.1039/c5ra18751f

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

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

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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 language	English
Pages (from-to)	87723-87729
Number of pages	7
Journal	RSC Advances
Volume	5
Issue number	106
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ra18751f
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

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

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A facile cosolvent/chelation method for the preparation of semi-crystalline CuCl2(ethylene glycol)/poly(3-hexylthiophene) complexes displaying specific luminescence properties. / Lu, Fang-Hsien; Mohamed, Mohamed Gamal; Liu, Tzeng-Feng; Chao, Chuen-Guang; Kuo, Shiao Wei.

In: RSC Advances, Vol. 5, No. 106, 2015, p. 87723-87729.

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