Functional spheres : Monodisperse gold‐doped titania spheres with tunable sizes under high concentration of titanium precursor have been synthesized by introducing trace amounts of chloroauric acid into the reaction system. Surface photovoltage, surface photocurrent, and transient photovoltage measurements (see figure) of annealed samples reveal that gold nanodots can act as both electron acceptors and donors under the illumination of different wavelengths of light.
The emission of composite conjugated polymer (MEH‐PPV)/fullerene (PCBM) nanoparticles is investigated by single particle spectroscopy (SPS), and changes in vibronic structure with nanoparticle composition are evaluated by means of a detailed Franck–Condon analysis. Consistent with previous reports we find that the emission spectra can be modeled as the superposition of two types of emitters, one with aggregate character and one with molecular character. Major findings from the fitting of the SPS data to a Franck–Condon model are that 1) the occurrence of each of the two types of emitters changes with nanoparticle composition to the point that no aggregate emitters are detected (at 50 wt % PCBM), 2) at the highest PCBM doping levels (75 wt % PCBM) aggregate emitters reappear due to nanoscale phase separation in the composite nanoparticles, 3) the molecular emitters show small Huang–Rhys factors that increase with PCBM doping, indicative of extensive delocalization and exciton migration that is reduced by the disorder introduced in the polymer material by PCBM doping and 4) the aggregate emitters show large Huang–Rhys factors, indicative of the localized nature of these energy trap sites, with a broad distribution of values of these Huang–Rhys factors. The latter observation suggests a broad heterogeneous distribution of aggregate morphologies in blended conducting polymer materials, which can be attributed to variations in polymer chain folding and stacking at the aggregate sites. The reported results obtained by the SPS approach show how blending conjugated polymers with fullerenes at various doping levels induces changes in interchain interactions and aggregate site density even at length scales below a few tens of nanometers that affect conjugated polymer material properties, an observation that has gone unnoticed in bulk studies of blended conjugated polymer films.相似文献
New aromatic compounds with a pyridazine core have been synthesized. Four electron‐withdrawing monomers have been easily prepared from simple condensation reactions and ring closure procedures. Optimized HOMO, LUMO, and bandgap energy levels have been obtained. The resulting conjugated polymers have been tested in organic solar cells. First studies have revealed power conversion efficiencies up to 0.5% for an active area of 1.0 cm2.
Novel organic and inorganic hybrid photovoltaic devices were thbricated by in-situ electrochemical copolymerization of 3-methylthiophene（3MT） and bithiophene（BT） into the pores of nanostructured TiO2 sintered on fluorine-doped tin oxide（FTO） substrate. The photoactive layer was investigated by Fourier transform infrared（FTIR） spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visable（UV-Vis） spectrometer, scanning electron microscope（SEM） and cyclic voltammo- gram characterization. Device efficiency based on different molar feed ratios of 3MT and BT during electrochemical polymerization, and the effect of in-situ copolymer state（doped by electrolyte and de-doped） were measured and compared. Under the solar illumination of 100 mW/cm2（AM 1.5）, an optimized device efficiency of 0.938% was obtained when the molar ratio of 3MT to BT was 500：1, polymerization time was 500 s and the system was in doped copolymer state, respectively. The mechanism of overall photovoltaic parameter improvement was discussed. 相似文献
In this work, we demonstrate a novel synthesis of synthetic rutile from high titanium slag. This rutile TiO2 was obtained by a simple one-step microwave roasting route. The influence of microwave roasting temperature and duration on the phase transformation of high titanium slag has been assessed. X-ray diffraction (XRD) results indicate that the intensity of anosovite (Fe3Ti3O10) phase, which were the major phase of high titanium slag of carbon thermal reduction of ilmenite ores, decreased rapidly while the peaks for rutile TiO2 phase increased with increase in the microwave roasting temperature. The scanning electron microscope (SEM) images revealed formation and the particle-size distribution of rutile TiO2 phase. Based on XRD and SEM analysis, confirmed the dependence of phase structure, composition and crystallite size on the process conditions of microwave roasting. 相似文献
