title: Correlating triplet yield, singlet oxygen generation and photochemical stability in polymer/fullerene blend films.
abstract: The photostability of two donor polymers, DPP-TT-T and PTB7, is compared in neat films and blend films with PC(71)BM. In both neat and blend films, PTB7 is shown to be relatively unstable. This observation is shown to correlate with transient optical studies of long lived polymer triplets and with molecular probe studies of singlet oxygen yields.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Plastic Electronics and Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK SW7 2AZ.
authors.forename: Ying W
authors.initials: YW
authors.lastname: Soon
authors.forename: Hoduk
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Low
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Bronstein
authors.forename: Iain
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: McCulloch
authors.forename: James R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Durrant