Urbina Yeregui, Antonio

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    Graphene oxide: key to efficient charge extraction and suppression of polaronic transport in hybrids with poly (3-hexylthiophene) nanoparticles
    (American Chemical Society, 2023) Colom, Eduardo; Hernández-Ferrer, Javier; Galán-González, Alejandro; Ansón-Casaos, Alejandro; Navarro-Rodríguez, Mario; Palacios-Lidón, Elisa; Colchero, Jaime; Padilla, Javier; Urbina Yeregui, Antonio; Arenal, Raúl; Benito, Ana M.; Maser, Wolfgang K.; Ciencias; Zientziak; Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2
    Nanoparticles (NPs) of conjugated polymers in intimate contact with sheets of graphene oxide (GO) constitute a promising class of water-dispersible nanohybrid materials of increased interest for the design of sustainable and improved optoelectronic thin-film devices, revealing properties exclusively pre-established upon their liquid-phase synthesis. In this context, we report for the first time the preparation of a P3HTNPs-GO nanohybrid employing a miniemulsion synthesis approach, whereby GO sheets dispersed in the aqueous phase serve as a surfactant. We show that this process uniquely favors a quinoid-like conformation of the P3HT chains of the resulting NPs well located onto individual GO sheets. The accompanied change in the electronic behavior of these P3HTNPs, consistently confirmed by the photoluminescence and Raman response of the hybrid in the liquid and solid states, respectively, as well as by the properties of the surface potential of isolated individual P3HTNPs-GO nano-objects, facilitates unprecedented charge transfer interactions between the two constituents. While the electrochemical performance of nanohybrid films is featured by fast charge transfer processes, compared to those taking place in pure P3HTNPs films, the loss of electrochromic effects in P3HTNPs-GO films additionally indicates the unusual suppression of polaronic charge transport processes typically encountered in P3HT. Thus, the established interface interactions in the P3HTNPs-GO hybrid enable a direct and highly efficient charge extraction channel via GO sheets. These findings are of relevance for the sustainable design of novel high-performance optoelectronic device structures based on water-dispersible conjugated polymer nanoparticles.
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    Nanoparticles of poly(3-hexylthiophene): toward a solvent-independent performance of electrochromic films
    (Elsevier, 2023) Cánovas-Saura, Antonio; Colom, Eduardo; Padilla, Javier; Urbina Yeregui, Antonio; Maser, Wolfgang K.; Benito, Ana M.; Ciencias; Zientziak; Institute for Advanced Materials and Mathematics - INAMAT2
    Nanoparticles of poly(3-hexylthiophene), P3HT(NP), uniquely enable the preparation of stable dispersions in environmentally-friendly media and thus offer a sustainable liquid phase fabrication of electrochromic device structures. In this work, we assess the electrochromic performance of P3HT(NP) films spray-coated from either tetrahydrofuran (THF)-water or chloroform (CHCl3)-ethanol dispersions on ITO substrates. The nanoparticle films exhibit consistent and reproducible high optical contrast values of around 50 %, t90-switching speeds of about 0.45 s and a cycling stability of approximately 200 cycles for a 20 % performance retention, independent of the solvent being used. Conversely, non-nanostructured P3HT films spray-coated from THF or CHCl3 reveal a strong solvent dependent variability in their electrochromic behavior presenting low optical contrast, high switching speeds and fast degradation rates in the case of CHCl3. The solvent independent electrochromic characteristics of P3HT nanoparticle films is related to a consistent availability of accessible electroactive sites provided by a homogeneous porous P3HT network structure formed on the underlying substrate, as probed by SEM and profilometric studies. Our findings reveal that the use of nanoparticles of P3HT and its environmentally benign liquid phase processing, a concept which is extendable to other electrochromic polymers, opens a sustainable pathway toward the large-area fabrication of electrochromic device structures with favorable and consistent performance parameters.