pi-Conjugated Donor and Donor–Acceptor Metallo-Polymers

Wild, Andreas; Schluetter, Florian; Pavlov, George M.; Friebe, Christian; Festag, Grit; Winter, Andreas; Hager, Martin D.; Cimrova, Vera; Schubert, Ulrich S.

Abstract:

Two zinc(II)- and two ruthenium(II) containing p-conjugated metallo-polymers were synthesized and characterized in detail. We could prove by SEC, analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) and viscosimetry the ruthenium(II) metallo-polymers to be high molar mass materials (Mfs¼20 000 g
mol1 Ru1-2; Mfs¼34 000 g
mol1 Ru1) exhibiting intrinsic viscosities of up to [h]¼192
cm3
g1. Applying spin-coating we produced homogeneous films of the polymers and could, subsequently, investigate the photophysical properties in the solid state. Introducing the Ru(II) metallo-polymers mixed with PCBM[60] as photoactive layer in bulk-heterojunction solar cells resulted in very low efficiencies due to morphology problems.

Year:

2010

Type of Publication:

Article

Journal:

Macromolecular Rapid Communications

Volume:

31

Pages:

868 - 874