Table 1 Summary of optoelectronic properties of the polymers and DFT bond angles

From: Solution-processable polymers of intrinsic microporosity for gas-phase carbon dioxide photoreduction

Polymer

IP (eV)a

Eg (eV)b

EA (eV)a

PL max (nm)

PL lifetime (tavga) (ns)

DFT dihedral bond angle (°)

pTA

5.6

2.3

3.3

550

0.75

24.4

pTA-Ph

5.7

2.7

3.0

467

2.34

48.5

pTA-Th

5.4

2.1

3.3

563

0.56

37.9

pTA-BT

5.9

2.1

3.8

647

0.41

44.3

  1. IP ionisation potential from PESA, EA electron affinity, Eg optical band gap, PL photoluminescence (see S7 for PL lifetimes calculations).
  2. Measurements carried out in:
  3. aEstimated from the EA and Eg.
  4. bThin film on ITO spin-coated from 10 mg ml−1 CHCl3 solution.
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