Can the dielectric constant of fullerene derivatives be enhanced by side-chain manipulation? : a predictive first-principles computational study
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- Selim Sami, Pi A. B. Haase, Riccardo Alessandri, Ria Broer and Remco Havenith (UGent)
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- The low efficiency of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices has often been attributed to the strong Coulombic interactions between the electron and hole, impeding the charge separation process. Recently, it has been argued that by increasing the dielectric constant of materials used in OPVs, this strong interaction could be screened. In this work, we report the application of periodic density functional theory together with the coupled perturbed Kohn Sham method to calculate the electronic contribution to the dielectric constant for fullerene C-60 derivatives, a ubiquitous class of molecules in the field of OPVs. The results show good agreement with experimental data when available and also reveal an important undesirable outcome when manipulating the side chain to maximize the static dielectric constant: in all cases, the electronic contribution to the dielectric constant decreases as the side chain increases in size. This information should encourage both theoreticians and experimentalists to further investigate the relevance of contributions to the dielectric constant from slower processes like vibrations and dipolar reorientations for facilitating the charge separation, because electronically, enlarging the side chain of conventional fullerene derivatives only lowers the dielectric constant, and consequently, their electronic dielectric constant is upper bound by the one of C-60.
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- ORGANIC SEMICONDUCTORS, CHARGE SEPARATION, MOLECULAR PACKING, POLARIZATION, CAPACITANCE, STRATEGY, BUCKMINSTERFULLERENE, IMPLEMENTATION, PHOTOVOLTAICS, DEPOSITION
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8667429
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- Sami, Selim, et al. “Can the Dielectric Constant of Fullerene Derivatives Be Enhanced by Side-Chain Manipulation? : A Predictive First-Principles Computational Study.” JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, vol. 122, no. 15, 2018, pp. 3919–26, doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01348.
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- Sami, S., Haase, P. A. B., Alessandri, R., Broer, R., & Havenith, R. (2018). Can the dielectric constant of fullerene derivatives be enhanced by side-chain manipulation? : a predictive first-principles computational study. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, 122(15), 3919–3926. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01348
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- Sami, Selim, Pi A. B. Haase, Riccardo Alessandri, Ria Broer, and Remco Havenith. 2018. “Can the Dielectric Constant of Fullerene Derivatives Be Enhanced by Side-Chain Manipulation? : A Predictive First-Principles Computational Study.” JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 122 (15): 3919–26. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01348.
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- Sami, Selim, Pi A. B. Haase, Riccardo Alessandri, Ria Broer, and Remco Havenith. 2018. “Can the Dielectric Constant of Fullerene Derivatives Be Enhanced by Side-Chain Manipulation? : A Predictive First-Principles Computational Study.” JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A 122 (15): 3919–3926. doi:10.1021/acs.jpca.8b01348.
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- 1.Sami S, Haase PAB, Alessandri R, Broer R, Havenith R. Can the dielectric constant of fullerene derivatives be enhanced by side-chain manipulation? : a predictive first-principles computational study. JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A. 2018;122(15):3919–26.
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- [1]S. Sami, P. A. B. Haase, R. Alessandri, R. Broer, and R. Havenith, “Can the dielectric constant of fullerene derivatives be enhanced by side-chain manipulation? : a predictive first-principles computational study,” JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY A, vol. 122, no. 15, pp. 3919–3926, 2018.
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