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Nanoscale Morphology from Donor–Acceptor Block Copolymers: Formation and Functions

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General design principles of donor–acceptor block copolymers are reviewed and specific results arising from block copolymers consisting of semicrystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) blocks of appreciably high molecular weight and acceptor blocks carrying pendant perylene bisimides or fullerene derivatives are summarized. The chapter is structured according to the building blocks P3HT, poly(perylene bisimide acrylate), and a polystyrene copolymer grafted with phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester used for the synthesis of the corresponding block copolymers, and in each part the synthetic challenges, structure formation, and consequences for charge transport, and in some cases photovoltaic properties, are addressed.

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We acknowledge financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the priority program SPP1355, projects HO 3981/6, Th 807/3, and TH 1281/1. Part of the results was obtained from experiments on beamlines ID10 and Dubble at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France.

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    David Heinrich, Martin Hufnagel, Chetan Raj Singh & Mukundan Thelakkat

  2. Institut für Physik, Martin-Luther-Universität, von-Danckelmann Platz 3, 06099, Halle, Germany

    Matthias Fischer & Thomas Thurn-Albrecht

  3. Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC), Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Philosophenweg 7, 07743, Jena, Germany

    Shahidul Alam & Harald Hoppe

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Heinrich, D. et al. (2017). Nanoscale Morphology from Donor–Acceptor Block Copolymers: Formation and Functions. In: Leo, K. (eds) Elementary Processes in Organic Photovoltaics. Advances in Polymer Science, vol 272. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28338-8_7

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