Issue 17, 2016

Do charges delocalize over multiple molecules in fullerene derivatives?

Abstract

We address the question of charge delocalization in amorphous and crystalline fullerene solids by performing state of the art calculations encompassing force-field molecular dynamics, microelectrostatic and quantum-chemical methods. The solution of a tight-binding model built from spatially (down to atomistic scale) and time (down to fs) resolved calculations yields the density of electronic states for the charge carriers and their energy-dependent intermolecular delocalization. Both pristine C60 and the soluble PC61BM/PC71BM acceptors may sustain high-energy states that spread over a few tens of molecules irrespective of morphology, yet electrostatic disorder (mostly dipolar and static in nature) makes the thermally available electron states collapse to hardly more than one molecule in PC61BM/PC71BM, while it has a much more limited impact in the case of the bare C60. Implications of these results for charge transport and exciton dissociation at donor–fullerene interfaces are discussed.

Graphical abstract: Do charges delocalize over multiple molecules in fullerene derivatives?

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
12 10 2015
Accepted
23 11 2015
First published
25 11 2015

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016,4, 3747-3756

Author version available

Do charges delocalize over multiple molecules in fullerene derivatives?

G. D'Avino, Y. Olivier, L. Muccioli and D. Beljonne, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 3747 DOI: 10.1039/C5TC03283K

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