Molecular Encapsulation of Naphthalene Diimide (NDI) Based -Conjugated Polymers: A Tool for Understanding Photoluminescence. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Conjugated polymers are an important class of chromophores for optoelectronic devices. Understanding and controlling their excited state properties, in particular, radiative and non-radiative recombination processes are among the greatest challenges that must be overcome. We report the synthesis and characterization of a molecularly encapsulated naphthalene diimide-based polymer, one of the most successfully used motifs, and explore its structural and optical properties. The molecular encapsulation enables a detailed understanding of the effect of interpolymer interactions. We reveal that the non-encapsulated analogue P(NDI-2OD-T) undergoes aggregation enhanced emission; an effect that is suppressed upon encapsulation due to an increasing -interchain stacking distance. This suggests that decreasing -stacking distances may be an attractive method to enhance the radiative properties of conjugated polymers in contrast to the current paradigm where it is viewed as a source of optical quenching.

published proceedings

  • Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

altmetric score

  • 10.95

author list (cited authors)

  • Royakkers, J., Guo, K., Toolan, D., Feng, L., Minotto, A., Congrave, D. G., ... Bronstein, H.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • Royakkers, Jeroen||Guo, Kunping||Toolan, Daniel TW||Feng, Liang-Wen||Minotto, Alessandro||Congrave, Daniel G||Danowska, Magda||Zeng, Weixuan||Bond, Andrew D||Al-Hashimi, Mohammed||Marks, Tobin J||Facchetti, Antonio||Cacialli, Franco||Bronstein, Hugo

publication date

  • November 2021

publisher