Issue 37, 2006
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Chemical Communications

Radical ion pair mediated triplet formation in polymer–fullerene blend films†

Hideo Ohkita,*ab   Steffan Cook,a   Yeni Astuti,a   Warren Duffy,c   Martin Heeney,c   Steve Tierney,c   Iain McCulloch,c   Donal D. C. Bradleyd  and  James R. Durrant*a  

* Corresponding authors

a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK
E-mail: j.durrant@imperial.ac.uk
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b Department of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 616-8510, Japan
E-mail: ohkita@photo.polym.kyoto-u.ac.jp
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Tel: +81 75 383 2613

c Merck Chemicals, Chilworth Science Park, Southampton, UK

d Department of Physics, Imperial College London, London, UK

Abstract

Efficient triplet formation is observed for films of high ionisation potential polythiophenes blended with a fullerene derivative, and assigned to formation via geminate charge recombination of bound radical ion pair states.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/B608832E
Article type
Communication
Submitted
21 Jun 2006
Accepted
20 Jul 2006
First published
08 Aug 2006

Chem. Commun., 2006, 3939-3941

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Radical ion pair mediated triplet formation in polymer–fullerene blend films

H. Ohkita, S. Cook, Y. Astuti, W. Duffy, M. Heeney, S. Tierney, I. McCulloch, D. D. C. Bradley and J. R. Durrant, Chem. Commun., 2006, 3939 DOI: 10.1039/B608832E

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