Surface diffusion of a glassy discotic organic semiconductor and the surface mobility gradient of molecular glasses

Author:

Li Yuhui1ORCID,Bishop Camille2ORCID,Cui Kai2ORCID,Schmidt J. R.2ORCID,Ediger M. D.2ORCID,Yu Lian1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. School of Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53705, USA

2. Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA

Abstract

Surface diffusion has been measured in the glass of an organic semiconductor, MTDATA, using the method of surface grating decay. The decay rate was measured as a function of temperature and grating wavelength, and the results indicate that the decay mechanism is viscous flow at high temperatures and surface diffusion at low temperatures. Surface diffusion in MTDATA is enhanced by 4 orders of magnitude relative to bulk diffusion when compared at the glass transition temperature Tg. The result on MTDATA has been analyzed along with the results on other molecular glasses without extensive hydrogen bonds. In total, these systems cover a wide range of molecular geometries from rod-like to quasi-spherical to discotic and their surface diffusion coefficients vary by 9 orders of magnitude. We find that the variation is well explained by the existence of a steep surface mobility gradient and the anchoring of surface molecules at different depths. Quantitative analysis of these results supports a recently proposed double-exponential form for the mobility gradient: log  D( T, z) = log  Dv( T) + [log  D0 − log  Dv( T)]exp(− z/ξ), where D( T, z) is the depth-dependent diffusion coefficient, Dv( T) is the bulk diffusion coefficient, D0 ≈ 10−8 m2/s, and ξ ≈ 1.5 nm. Assuming representative bulk diffusion coefficients for these fragile glass formers, the model reproduces the presently known surface diffusion rates within 0.6 decade. Our result provides a general way to predict the surface diffusion rates in molecular glasses.

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Subject

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry,General Physics and Astronomy

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