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Is a Single Conformer Sufficient to Describe the Reorganization Energy of Amorphous Organic Transport Materials?

Blaskovits, J. Terence
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Lin, Kun-Han  
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Fabregat, Raimon  
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August 12, 2021
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C

The reorganization energy (lambda), which quantifies the structural rearrangement of a molecule when accommodating a charge, is a key parameter in the evaluation of charge mobility in molecular solids. However, it is unclear how lambda is influenced by conformational isomerism, which is diverse in amorphous solids. Here, we examine the conformational space of a family of model amorphous organic hole transport materials (HTMs), derived from triphenylamine in a core-arm template, and probe the effect of conformational complexity on lambda. We observe an extreme dependence of lambda on the conformer geometry of sterically congested HTMs, which to the best of our knowledge has not been described previously. These results serve as a cautionary tale that, while extracting the reorganization energy from a single molecular conformer optimized in the gas phase may be appropriate for rigid and sterically unencumbered structures, this approach is not suitable for many state-of-the-art HTMs that contain multiple bulky substituents.

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DOI
10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c04067
Web of Science ID

WOS:000685650400048

Author(s)
Blaskovits, J. Terence
Lin, Kun-Han  
Fabregat, Raimon  
Swiderska, Iwona
Wu, Helene
Corminboeuf, Clemence  
Date Issued

2021-08-12

Publisher

AMER CHEMICAL SOC

Published in
Journal Of Physical Chemistry C
Volume

125

Issue

31

Start page

17355

End page

17362

Subjects

Chemistry, Physical

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Nanoscience & Nanotechnology

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Materials Science, Multidisciplinary

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Chemistry

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Science & Technology - Other Topics

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Materials Science

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efficient generation

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electron-transfer

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charge-transport

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carrier mobility

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am1-bcc model

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gromacs

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field

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REVIEWED

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