Study of the dynamics of a multi-component polymer blend using neutron polarisation analysis.

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Dynamics of multicomponent mixtures such as polymer blends are typically studied with QENS and deuterium labelling. Difficulties arise in the data analysis if the coherent signal of the ‘hidden’ component is of the same order of magnitude as the incoherent signal of the component of interest – contamination with the structure factor and any coherent inelastic scattering, means that the self-intermediate scattering function becomes difficult to isolate. One such case are blends of P3HT/PCBM for use in solar cells. They promise low manufacturing costs, high production throughput and large area applications, however efficiencies are still limited to ~ 11%. This study of the dynamics will help to maximise transport within the solar cells, and the use of neutron polarisation analysis to separate the incoherent and coherent scattering will allow unambiguous determination of the QENS signal.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90682888
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90682888
Provenance
Creator Dr Gøran Nilsen; Dr Giuseppe Maria Paternò; Dr Ross Stewart; Dr David Voneshen; Dr Victoria Garcia Sakai; Dr Franco Cacialli; Mr Gino Cassella
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2018-06-05T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-06-12T07:42:39Z