Achievement
Modeling interactions of compounds in in organic solar cells
Project
Nanostructured Solar Cells: Materials, Processes and Devices
University
University of South Dakota
(Vermillion, SD)
PI
Trainee Achievements
Modeling interactions of compounds in in organic solar cells
Jeff Mottishaw is modeling the weak interactions of highly electron-deficient aromatic compounds to be used as n-type semiconductors in organic solar cells and organic field-effect transistors. His work has revealed that perfluoroalkylation of aromatic compounds leads to increased interaction energies, shorter pi-pi distances between rings, and increased cofacial packing. These results demonstrate why perfluoroalkylation of aromatic rings enhances n-type behavior in organic semiconductors.
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