Electrochromic and photovoltaic applications of conjugated polymers

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Apaydın, Doğukan Hazar

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Three new azobenzene containing conjugated monomers were designed and synthesized. Resulting monomers were characterized by means of 1H NMR and 13C NMR techniques. Monomers (E)-1,2-bis(4-(thiophen-2-yl)phenyl)diazene (M1), (E)-1,2-bis(4-(4-hexylthiophen-2-yl) phenyl) diazene (M2) and (E)-1,2-bis(2-fluoro-4-(4-hexylthiophen-2-yl)phenyl) diazene (M3) were electrochemically polymerized using cyclic voltammetry to give polymers P1, P2 and P3. The polymers were subjected to spectroelectrochemical and kinetic studies in order to obtain information about their elecrochromic characteristics. P1 and P2 were pale-yellow in their neutral states and blue in oxidized states while P3 showed multichromic property due to having polaron bands in visible region of the spectrum. Addition of fluorine atoms to the backbone of P3, lowered the LUMO level of P3 thus gained the polymer n-doping property. In the second part of this thesis poly((9,9-dioctylfluorene)-2,7-diyl-(4,7-bis(thien-2-yl) 2-dodecyl-benzo[1,2,3]triazole)) (PFTBT) polymer was mixed with common electron acceptor Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and used in organic solar cell applications. Active layers containing PFTBT and PCBM were spin casted on ITO coated substrates at varying rotational speeds to obtain active layer thicknesses having different values. Thickness of the active layer was optimized so was the efficiency of organic solar cells. As a result of this optimization study, efficiency of PFTBT containing organic solar cells were increased to 1.06% which is a higher value than previosly reported literature results

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Conjugated polymers., Photovoltaic effect., Solar cells.

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D. H. Apaydın, “Electrochromic and photovoltaic applications of conjugated polymers,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2012.