(197ac) Reproducible Workflows for Parameterizing and Simulating Models of Complex Conjugated Copolymers for Organic Photovoltaics
AIChE Annual Meeting
2023
2023 AIChE Annual Meeting
Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum
Poster Session: Computational Molecular Science and Engineering Forum
Monday, November 6, 2023 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Organic semiconductors that can self-assemble into morphologies with high charge mobility have the potential to transform green energy generation, but measuring or predicting the stable morphologies and their charge mobilities is difficult. Here we develop computational workflows for screening the morphologies of organic photovoltaic (OPV) macromolecules and copolymers. We employ the Espaloma1 toolkit to parameterize all-atom forcefields, signac-flow2 to manage simulation workspaces, MoSDeF tools3 to initialize simulation volumes, and HOOMD-Blue4 to perform molecular dynamics simulations. We compare predicted morphologies between all-atom and united atom representations with a variety of methods of handling partial charges for a set of complex donor-acceptor copolymers5 and justify the use of the coarser models to predict morphology in these systems. Finally, we summarize short-range structural motifs and long-range periodicities that emerge across conjugated polymers with varying backbone rigidity.
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1653954.