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We are excited to share our recent findings on the application of photostable Diketopyrrolopyrrole dye and its derivatives for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries. Click here to read more about it.

Congratulations to Nilabja Maity for successfully defending his Doctoral Colloquium titled ‘Diketopyrrolopyrrole Based Supramolecular Polymers with Emergent Photophysics and Unprecedented Photoconductivity’.

Congratulations to Rathod Suman for securing a Post-Doctoral position at Bar-Ilan University in Prof. Doron Aurbach’s Research Group.

Satish Patil
Professor and Chair
Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India)
E-mail : spatil@iisc.ac.in

Tel. 080-22932651, Fax: +91 80 23601310

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Research Areas:

Research activities of our group are focused on exploring the manifold of molecular electronics ranging from organic photovoltaics, light-emitting diodes and field-effect transistors. Our interdisciplinary approach includes synthesizing multifunctional conjugated polymers and oligomers with novel properties and studying their characteristics working at the interface of chemistry, physics and materials engineering. We take advantage of molecular structures to fine tune the desired properties through molecular design and robust synthetic strategies.

The research group at present is actively engaged in developing π-conjugated polymers and oligomers for-

Organic Solar Cells

Singlet Fission
Electrochemical Energy Storage Devices
Organic Light-emitting Diodes
Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence (TADF)
Field-Effect Transistors

Representative Publications:

1. Mohapatra, A. A.; Tiwari, V.; Patil, S. Energy Transfer in Ternary Blend Organic Solar Cells: Recent Insights and Future Directions. Energy Environ. Sci. 2021, 14 (1), 302–319. DOI: 10.1039/d0ee03170d.

2. Krishnapriya, K. C.; Roy, P.; Puttaraju, B.; Salzner, U.; Musser, A. J.; Jain, M.; Dasgupta, J.; Patil, S. Spin Density Encodes Intramolecular Singlet Exciton Fission in Pentacene Dimers. Nat. Commun. 2019 101 2019, 10 (1), 1–8. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-07736-3.

3. Krishnapriya, K. C.; Musser, A. J.; Patil, S. Molecular Design Strategies for Efficient Intramolecular Singlet Exciton Fission. ACS Energy Lett. 2018, 4 (1), 192–202. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01833.

4. Zang, Y.; Ray, S.; Fung, E. D.; Borges, A.; Garner, M. H.; Steigerwald, M. L.; Solomon, G. C.; Patil, S.; Venkataraman, L. Resonant Transport in Single Diketopyrrolopyrrole Junctions. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (41), 13167–13170. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b06964.

5. Mukhopadhyay, T.; Musser, A. J.; Puttaraju, B.; Dhar, J.; Friend, R. H.; Patil, S. Is the Chemical Strategy for Imbuing “Polyene” Character in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Chromophores Sufficient for Singlet Fission? J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2017, 8 (5), 984–991. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02919.

6. Roy, P.; Jha, A.; Yasarapudi, V. B.; Ram, T.; Puttaraju, B.; Patil, S.; Dasgupta, J. Ultrafast Bridge Planarization in Donor-π-Acceptor Copolymers Drives Intramolecular Charge Transfer. Nat. Commun. 2017 81 2017, 8 (1), 1–10. DOI: 10.1038/s41467-017-01928-z.

7. Senanayak, S. P.; Ashar, A. Z.; Kanimozhi, C.; Patil, S.; Narayan, K. S. Room-Temperature Bandlike Transport and Hall Effect in a High-Mobility Ambipolar Polymer, Phys. Rev. B 2015, 91 (11), 115302 (1-16). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.91.115302.

8. Kanimozhi, C.; Yaacobi-Gross, N.; Chou, K. W.; Amassian, A.; Anthopoulos, T. D.; Patil, S., Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Copolymer for High- Mobility Organic Field-Effect Transistors. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 16532-16535. DOI: 10.1021/ja308211n.

9. Naik, M. A.; Venkatramaiah, N.; Kanimozhi, C.; Patil, S., Influence of Side-Chain on Structural Order and Photophysical Properties in Thiophene Based Diketopyrrolopyrroles: A Systematic Study. J. Phys. Chem. C 2012, 116, 26128-26137. DOI: 10.1021/jp306365q.

10. Mohapatra, A. A.; Rational design of Donor-Acceptor based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constant, J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 6886−6896. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.1c00340

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