Victor Gray, Daniel T W Toolan, Simon Dowland, Jesse R Allardice, Michael P Weir, Zhilong Zhang, James Xiao, Anastasia Klimash, Jurjen F Winkel, Emma K Holland, Garrett M Fregoso, John E Anthony, Hugo Bronstein, Richard Friend, Anthony J Ryan, Richard A L Jones, Neil C Greenham, Akshay Rao
Blends comprising organic semiconductors and inorganic quantum dots (QDs) are relevant for many optoelectronic applications and devices. However, the individual components in organic-QD blends have a strong tendency to aggregate and phase-separate during film processing, compromising both their structural and electronic properties. Here, we demonstrate a QD surface engineering approach using electronically active, highly soluble semiconductor ligands that are matched to the organic semiconductor host material to achieve well-dispersed inorganic-organic blend films, as characterized by X-ray and neutron scattering, and electron microscopies...
March 8, 2024: Journal of the American Chemical Society