A Photoconductive, Thiophene-Fullerene Double-Cable Polymer, Nanorod Device

Hiroshi Imahori; Shinji Kitaura; Aiko Kira; Hironobu Hayashi; Masayuki Nishi; Kazuyuki Hirao; Seiji Isoda; Masahiko Tsujimoto; Mikio Takano; Zhang Zhe; Yuji Miyato; Kei Noda; Kazumi Matsushige; Kati Stranius; Nikolai V Tkachenko; Helge Lemmetyinen; Lidong Qin; Sarah J Hurst; Chad A Mirkin

doi:10.1021/jz300015e

A Photoconductive, Thiophene-Fullerene Double-Cable Polymer, Nanorod Device

J Phys Chem Lett. 2012 Feb 16;3(4):478-81. doi: 10.1021/jz300015e. Epub 2012 Jan 31.

Authors

Hiroshi Imahori^{1

2}, Shinji Kitaura², Aiko Kira², Hironobu Hayashi², Masayuki Nishi³, Kazuyuki Hirao³, Seiji Isoda¹, Masahiko Tsujimoto¹, Mikio Takano¹, Zhang Zhe⁴, Yuji Miyato⁴, Kei Noda⁴, Kazumi Matsushige⁴, Kati Stranius⁵, Nikolai V Tkachenko⁵, Helge Lemmetyinen⁵, Lidong Qin⁶, Sarah J Hurst⁷, Chad A Mirkin⁷

Affiliations

¹ †Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
² ‡Department of Molecular Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
³ §Department of Material Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
⁴ ∥Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan.
⁵ ⊥Department of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Tampere University of Technology, P.O. Box 541, FIN-33101 Tampere, Finland.
⁶ #Department of Nanomedicine, The Methodist Hospital Research, Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University, 6670 Bertner St., Office R7-121, Houston, Texas 77030, United States.
⁷ ▽Department of Chemistry and International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.

PMID: 26286050
DOI: 10.1021/jz300015e

Abstract

Gold/double-cable copolymer/gold multisegmented nanorods were prepared electrochemically via a template-based method. These "bulk heterojunction" nanorods showed photoconductivity providing us with a platform to study photoinduced charge separation/transport at the nanointerface and begin to think about the rational design of nanoscale solar cells based on such structures.

Keywords: bulk heterojunction; conjugated polymer; electron transfer; fullerene; nanorod; organic field effect transistor; photoconductivity.