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World Scientific Publishing, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, 04(03), p. 481-489

DOI: 10.1142/s0219633604001227

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Theoretical Investigation on Energy Gap of Fluorene-Thiophene Copolymer

Journal article published in 2004 by P. Poolmee, S. Hannongbua ORCID
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Abstract

In this work, HOMO-LUMO energy gap and the lowest excitation energy of poly [2,7-(9,9-dihexylfluorene)-co-alt-2,5-(decylthiophene) were performed by different methods. The obtained results indicate that TDDFT(B3LYP/6-31G*)//B3LYP/6-31G* calculations can be useful to provide reliable energetic and structural results of this polymer. The HOMO-LUMO predictions were not accurately obtained as compared to the experimental results. The inverse chain length approximation by using TDDFT(B3LYP/6-31G*)//B3LYP/6-31G* calculations provides energy gap of 2.50 eV, which is in an excellent agreement with the experimental data. However, it was found that the HOMO-LUMO energy gaps obtained from B3LYP calculations were still far from the experimental data.