General Information

Applications

PFN-I is the diiodide salt of PFN, and is a conjugated polymer electrolyte (CPE). It is commonly used as an electron-interface layer material in organic electronic devices (including OLED, OPV and perovskite solar cells) to improve extraction efficiency. PFN-I is also used as an active layer material for blue OLED devices.

It is believed that the device performance of polymer LEDs with bilayer cathodes (such as. PFN-I/Al), can be enhanced to levels comparable to (and even higher than) those obtained from using Ca or Ba cathodes [1].

Due to its strong polar ionic pendant groups, PFN-I is soluble in methanol and water, 

References

1. Efficient Electron Injection from a Bilayer Cathode Consisting of Aluminum and Alcohol-/Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers, H. Wu et al., Adv. Mater., 16, 1826–1830 (2004), DOI: 10.1002/adma.200400067.
2. Bimolecular Excited-State Electron Transfer with Surprisingly Long-Lived Radical Ions, A. A. Alsam et al., J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 21896?21903 (2015); DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06636.
3. High-performance semi-transparent polymer solar cells possessing tandem structures, C. Chen et al., Energy. Environ. Sci., 6, 2714-2720( 2013); DOI: 10.1039/c3ee40860d.
4. Water/alcohol soluble conjugated polymers for the interface engineering of highly efficient polymer light-emitting diodes and polymer solar cells, Z. Hu et al., Chem. Commun., 51, 5572 (2015); DOI: 10.1039/c4cc09433f.
5. Overview of high-efficiency organic photovoltaic materials and devices, Renew. Sust. Energ. Rev., 52, 1527–1538 (2015); http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2015.08.032.