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Cunin CE, Meacham RF, Lee ER, Roh H, Samal S, Li W, Matthews JR, Zhao Y, He M, Gumyusenge A. Leveraging Insulator's Tacticity in Semiconducting Polymer Blends. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2024; 16:39717-39727. [PMID: 39036945 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c06609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
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Blending conjugated polymers with insulating matrices is often utilized for engineering extrinsic properties in organic electronics. Semiconductor/insulator blends are typically processed to form a uniformly distributed network of conductive domains within the insulating matrix, marrying electronic and physical properties from individual components. Understanding of polymer-polymer interactions in such systems is thus crucial for property co-optimization. One of the commonly overlooked parameters is the structural configuration of the insulator on the resulting properties, especially the electronic properties. This study investigated how the tacticity of the matrix polymer, among other relevant parameters in play, impacts solid state crystallization in semiconductor/matrix blends and hence the resulting charge transport properties. We found an intricate dependence of the film morphology, aggregation behavior, electronic charge transport, and mixed ionic-electronic coupling properties on the insulator's tacticity. Our experimentally iterative approach shows that for a given application, when selecting semiconductor/insulator combinations, the tacticity of the matrix can be leveraged to optimize performance and vary solid-state structure.
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- Camille E Cunin
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Laboratory of Molecular Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Corning Incorporated, One River Front Plaza, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Laboratory of Molecular Materials and Devices, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Materials Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
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- Corning Incorporated, One River Front Plaza, Corning, New York 14831, United States
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States
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Pagano K, Kim JG, Luke J, Tan E, Stewart K, Sazanovich IV, Karras G, Gonev HI, Marsh AV, Kim NY, Kwon S, Kim YY, Alonso MI, Dörling B, Campoy-Quiles M, Parker AW, Clarke TM, Kim YH, Kim JS. Slow vibrational relaxation drives ultrafast formation of photoexcited polaron pair states in glycolated conjugated polymers. Nat Commun 2024; 15:6153. [PMID: 39039039 PMCID: PMC11263616 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50530-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 07/13/2024] [Indexed: 07/24/2024] Open
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Glycol sidechains are often used to enhance the performance of organic photoconversion and electrochemical devices. Herein, we study their effects on electronic states and electronic properties. We find that polymer glycolation not only induces more disordered packing, but also results in a higher reorganisation energy due to more localised π-electron density. Transient absorption spectroscopy and femtosecond stimulated Raman spectroscopy are utilised to monitor the structural relaxation dynamics coupled to the excited state formation upon photoexcitation. Singlet excitons are initially formed, followed by polaron pair formation. The associated structural relaxation slows down in glycolated polymers (5 ps vs. 1.25 ps for alkylated), consistent with larger reorganisation energy. This slower vibrational relaxation is found to drive ultrafast formation of the polaron pair state (5 ps vs. 10 ps for alkylated). These results provide key experimental evidence demonstrating the impact of molecular structure on electronic state formation driven by strong vibrational coupling.
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- Katia Pagano
- Department of Physics and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Molecular Alchemy (RIMA) Gyeongsang National University Jinju, Gyeongnam, 660-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Physics and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Department of Physics and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, Christopher Ingold Building, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Physical Science and Engineering Division, KAUST Solar Center (KSC), King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Molecular Alchemy (RIMA) Gyeongsang National University Jinju, Gyeongnam, 660-701, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Energy and Materials Engineering, Dongguk University-Seoul, Seoul, 04620, Republic of Korea
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- Beamline Division, Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang, 37673, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Nanostructured Materials, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, E-08193, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Department of Nanostructured Materials, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, E-08193, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Department of Nanostructured Materials, Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona, ICMAB-CSIC, E-08193, Bellaterra, Spain
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- Central Laser Facility, Research Complex at Harwell, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX, UK
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- Department of Chemistry, University College London, Christopher Ingold Building, London, WC1H 0AJ, UK
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- Department of Chemistry and Research Institute of Molecular Alchemy (RIMA) Gyeongsang National University Jinju, Gyeongnam, 660-701, Republic of Korea.
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- Department of Physics and Centre for Processable Electronics, Imperial College London, London, SW7 2AZ, UK.
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Durand P, Zeng H, Jismy B, Boyron O, Heinrich B, Herrmann L, Bardagot O, Moutsios I, Mariasevskaia AV, Melnikov AP, Ivanov DA, Brinkmann M, Leclerc N. Controlling conjugated polymer morphology by precise oxygen position in single-ether side chains. MATERIALS HORIZONS 2024. [PMID: 39011761 DOI: 10.1039/d4mh00492b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/17/2024]
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Recently, polar side chains have emerged as a functional tool to enhance conjugated polymer doping properties by improving the polymer miscibility with polar chemical dopants and facilitate solvated ion uptake. In this work, we design and investigate a novel family of side chains containing a single ether function, enabling the modulation of the oxygen atom position along the side chain. A meticulous investigation of this new polymer series by differential scanning calorimetry, fast scanning chip calorimetry and X-ray scattering shows that polymers bearing single-ether side chains can show high degree of crystallinity under proper conditions. Importantly, due to a gauche effect allowing the side chain to bend at the oxygen atom, the degree of crystallinity of polymers can be controlled by the position of the oxygen atom along the side chain. The further the oxygen atom is from the conjugated backbone, the more crystalline the polymer becomes. In addition, for all new polymers, high thermomechanical properties are demonstrated, leading to remarkable electrical conductivities and thermoelectric power factors in rub-aligned and sequentially doped thin films. This work confirms the potential of single-ether side chains to be used as polar solubilizing side chains for the design of a next generation of p- and n-type semiconducting polymers with increased affinity to polar dopants while maintaining high molecular order.
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- Pablo Durand
- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, 67087 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, 67087 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Lyon, CNRS, Laboratoire CP2M, UMR 5128, 69100 Villeurbanne, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, IPCMS UMR 7504, F-67034 Strasbourg, France
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, 67087 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Mulhouse, CNRS, IS2M, UMR 7361, 15 Jean Starcky, Mulhouse 68057, France
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, 1-3 Leninskiye Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, 1-3 Leninskiye Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Université de Mulhouse, CNRS, IS2M, UMR 7361, 15 Jean Starcky, Mulhouse 68057, France
- Faculty of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, GSP-1, 1-3 Leninskiye Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICS UPR 22, 67000 Strasbourg, France.
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- Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, ICPEES UMR 7515, 67087 Strasbourg, France.
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D’Elia MF, Magni M, Trasatti SPM, Niederberger M, Caseri WR. Improving the Corrosion Protection of Poly(phenylene methylene) Coatings by Side Chain Engineering: The Case of Methoxy-Substituted Copolymers. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:16103. [PMID: 36555741 PMCID: PMC9784788 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232416103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2022] [Revised: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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This work aims to improve the corrosion protection features of poly(phenylene methylene) (PPM) by sidechain engineering inserting methoxy units along the polymer backbone. The influence of side methoxy groups at different concentrations (4.6% mol/mol and 9% mol/mol) on the final polymer properties was investigated by structural and thermal characterization of the resulting copolymers: co-PPM 4.6% and co-PPM 9%, respectively. Then, coatings were processed by hot pressing the polymers powder on aluminum alloy AA2024 and corrosion protection properties were evaluated exposing samples to a 3.5% w/v NaCl aqueous solution. Anodic polarization tests evidenced the enhanced corrosion protection ability (i.e., lower current density) by increasing the percentage of the co-monomer. Coatings made with co-PPM 9% showed the best protection performance with respect to both PPM blend and PPM co-polymers reported so far. Electrochemical response of aluminum alloy coated with co-PPM 9% was monitored over time under two "artificially-aged" conditions, that are: (i) a pristine coating subjected to potentiostatic anodic polarization cycles, and (ii) an artificially damaged coating at resting condition. The first scenario points to accelerating the corrosion process, the second one models damage of the coating potentially occurring either due to natural deterioration or due to any accidental scratching of the polymer layer. In both cases, an intrinsic self-healing phenomenon was indirectly argued by the time evolution of the impedance and of the current density of the coated systems. The degree of restoring to the "factory conditions" by co-polymer coatings after self-healing events is eventually discussed.
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- Marco F. D’Elia
- Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Department of Environmental Science and Policy, Universitá degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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- Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Laboratory for Multifunctional Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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Xia R, Li C, Yuan X, Wu Q, Jiang B, Xie Z. Facile Preparation of a Thienoisoindigo-Based Nanoscale Covalent Organic Framework with Robust Photothermal Activity for Cancer Therapy. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2022; 14:19129-19138. [PMID: 35446556 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c01701] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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The covalent organic frameworks (COFs) so far are usually built with small aromatic subunits, which makes their absorption spectra mainly located in the high-energy part of the visible region. In this work, we have developed a COF with a low band gap by integrating electron-deficient thienoisoindigo and electron-rich triphenylamine. The intramolecular charge-transfer effect combining the extended length of the π-conjugated backbone of COF endow it with broad absorption even to the second near-infrared region. After optimizing the solvent, a uniform size and colloidal stable COF is obtained. Benefiting from the coplanar structure of the monomer, this COF achieves a considerable photothermal conversion efficiency (PCE) of 48.2%. With these advantages, it displays convincing cancer cell killing effect upon laser irradiation in vitro or in vivo. This work provides a simple and practical method to acquire promising a COF-based phototherapy reagent that is applied in biomedicine field.
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- Rui Xia
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun, Jilin 130022, P. R. China
- University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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Li H, Yang H, Zhang L, Wang S, Chen Y, Zhang Q, Zhang J, Tian H, Han Y. Optimizing the Crystallization Behavior and Film Morphology of Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Semiconducting Polymers by Side-Chain–Solvent Interaction in Nonpolar Solvents. Macromolecules 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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- Hongxiang Li
- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- Spallation Neutron Source Science Center, Dongguan 523803, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Changchun 130022, P. R. China
- School of Applied Chemistry and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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Callaway CP, Bombile JH, Mask W, Ryno SM, Risko C. Thermomechanical enhancement of
DPP‐4T
through purposeful
π‐conjugation
disruption. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210494] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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- Connor P. Callaway
- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Applied Energy Research University of Kentucky Lexington Kentucky USA
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Wang X, Liu Y, Wang Z, Lu Y, Yao Z, Ding Y, Yu Z, Wang J, Pei J. Revealing the effect of oligo(ethylene glycol) side chains on
n‐doping
process in
FBDPPV
‐based polymers. JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/pol.20210493] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Xin‐Yi Wang
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (BNLMS), Key Laboratory of Polymer Chemistry and Physics of Ministry of Education, Center of Soft Matter Science and Engineering, College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering Peking University Beijing China
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Pankow RM, Thompson BC. The development of conjugated polymers as the cornerstone of organic electronics. POLYMER 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2020.122874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Tang Z, Xu X, Li R, Yu L, Meng L, Wang Y, Li Y, Peng Q. Asymmetric Siloxane Functional Side Chains Enable High-Performance Donor Copolymers for Photovoltaic Applications. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2020; 12:17760-17768. [PMID: 32148023 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b20204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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In this work, three benzodithiophene-benzotriazole alternated wide band gap copolymers attaching symmetric or asymmetric conjugated side chains, namely, PDBTFBTA-2T, PBDTFTBA-TSi, and PBDTFBTA-2Si, were developed for efficient nonfullerene polymer solar cells. The symmetry effect of the side chains was investigated in detail on the overall properties of these donor polymers. The results demonstrated that the introduced siloxane functional groups showed less effect on the absorption and frontier orbital levels of the prepared polymers but had a significant effect on the miscibility between these polymer donors and the nonfullerene acceptor. When increasing the content of siloxane functional groups, the miscibility of the polymer donors and Y6 would be improved, leading to the decreased domain size and more mixed domains. Interestingly, the active blend based on PBDTFTBA-TSi with asymmetric side chains exhibited more balanced miscibility, carrier mobility, and phase separation, benefiting exciton diffusion and dissociation. Therefore, a champion power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 14.18% was achieved finally in PBDTFTBA-TSi devices, which was 20.6 and 19.0% higher than the symmetric counterparts of PBTFBTA-2T devices (PCE = 11.76%) and PBDTFBTA-2Si devices (PCE = 11.92%), respectively. This work highlights that the asymmetric side-chain engineering based on siloxane functional groups is a promising design strategy for high-performance polymer donor semiconductors.
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- Ziye Tang
- Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- National Synchrotron Light Source II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Suffolk, Upton, New York 11973, United States
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- Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology of Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry, and State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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Chen CA, Wang SC, Tung SH, Su WF. Oligo(ethylene glycol) side chain effect on the physical properties and molecular arrangement of oligothiophene-isoindigo based conjugated polymers. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:9468-9473. [PMID: 31696894 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01471c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) side chains are widely used in donor-acceptor conjugated polymers (D-A CPs) and enable the polymers to dissolve and be processed in environmentally friendly and cost-effective nonchlorinated solvents, such as water. However, the OEG effect on the physical properties of D-A CPs has not been thoroughly studied and sometimes the results are controversial. In this study, two oligothiophene-isoindigo based conjugated polymers, P3TI and P4TI, are selected as model polymers to investigate the OEG effect. PnTI has octyl side chains on the oligothiophene unit and 2-hexyldecyl side chains on the isoindigo unit. The replacement of an alkyl side chain with OEG not only changes the optical and thermal properties but also the molecular arrangements of the polymers such as π-π d-spacing, crystallinity, and packing orientation. The domination of the crystallization behavior changes from the oligothiophene unit to the isoindigo unit when the bulky alkyl group is replaced by the flexible and linear OEG. The packing changes from edge-on to face-on orientation. The results are intriguing and provide new insights into this class of polymers.
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- Chien-An Chen
- Institute of Polymer Science and Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 10617, Taiwan.
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Biphenyl Diimide Based Novel Blue Emitters with Aggregation‐Induced Blue‐Shifted Emission Characteristics. CHEMPHOTOCHEM 2019. [DOI: 10.1002/cptc.201900202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Chen S, Jung S, Cho HJ, Kim N, Jung S, Xu J, Oh J, Cho Y, Kim H, Lee B, An Y, Zhang C, Xiao M, Ki H, Zhang Z, Kim J, Li Y, Park H, Yang C. Highly Flexible and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells with High‐Viscosity Processing Polymer Additive toward Potential of Stretchable Devices. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018; 57:13277-13282. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.201807513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2018] [Revised: 08/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Shanshan Chen
- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- National Laboratory of Solid State MicrostructuresSchool of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresNanjing University Nanjing 210093 China
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- School of Mechanical and Nuclear EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- National Laboratory of Solid State MicrostructuresSchool of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresNanjing University Nanjing 210093 China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State MicrostructuresSchool of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresNanjing University Nanjing 210093 China
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- School of Mechanical and Nuclear EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesCAS Key Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesCAS Key Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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Chen S, Jung S, Cho HJ, Kim N, Jung S, Xu J, Oh J, Cho Y, Kim H, Lee B, An Y, Zhang C, Xiao M, Ki H, Zhang Z, Kim J, Li Y, Park H, Yang C. Highly Flexible and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells with High‐Viscosity Processing Polymer Additive toward Potential of Stretchable Devices. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2018. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.201807513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Shanshan Chen
- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- National Laboratory of Solid State MicrostructuresSchool of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresNanjing University Nanjing 210093 China
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- School of Mechanical and Nuclear EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- National Laboratory of Solid State MicrostructuresSchool of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresNanjing University Nanjing 210093 China
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- National Laboratory of Solid State MicrostructuresSchool of Physics, and Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced MicrostructuresNanjing University Nanjing 210093 China
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- School of Mechanical and Nuclear EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesCAS Key Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- School of Materials Science and EngineeringUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular SciencesCAS Key Laboratory of Organic SolidsInstitute of ChemistryChinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 China
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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- Department of Energy EngineeringSchool of Energy and Chemical EngineeringPerovtronics Research Center, Low Dimensional Carbon Materials CenterUlsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) 50 UNIST-gil, Ulju-gun Ulsan 44919 South Korea
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Ma J, Liu Z, Yao J, Wang Z, Zhang G, Zhang X, Zhang D. Improving Ambipolar Semiconducting Properties of Thiazole-Flanked Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Terpolymers by Incorporating Urea Groups in the Side-Chains. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- Jing Ma
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China
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Wang GJN, Molina-Lopez F, Zhang H, Xu J, Wu HC, Lopez J, Shaw L, Mun J, Zhang Q, Wang S, Ehrlich A, Bao Z. Nonhalogenated Solvent Processable and Printable High-Performance Polymer Semiconductor Enabled by Isomeric Nonconjugated Flexible Linkers. Macromolecules 2018. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.8b00971] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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- Ging-Ji Nathan Wang
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5025, United States
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Gumyusenge A, Zhao X, Zhao Y, Mei J. Attaining Melt Processing of Complementary Semiconducting Polymer Blends at 130 °C via Side-Chain Engineering. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2018; 10:4904-4909. [PMID: 29338181 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b19847] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
Abstract
Complementary semiconducting polymer blends (c-SPBs) have been proposed and tested to achieve melt-processed high-performance organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). Prior to this study, melt processing requires temperatures as high as 180 °C. To implement this technique into low-cost and large-area thin-film manufacturing for flexible organic electronics, semiconducting materials meltable at temperatures tolerable by ubiquitous plastic substrates are still needed. We report here the design and melt processing of a c-SPB consisting of a matrix polymer (DPP-C5) and its fully conjugated analogue. By utilizing a siloxane-terminated alkyl chain and a branched alkyl chain as solubilizing groups, the matrix polymer DPP-C5 presents a melting temperature of 115 °C. The resulting c-SPB containing as low as 5% of the fully conjugated polymer could be melt-processed at 130 °C. The obtained OFET devices exhibit hole mobility approaching 1.0 cm2/(V s), threshold voltages below 5 V, and ION/IOFF around 105. This combination of efficient charge-carrier transport and considerably low processing temperatures bode well for melt processing of semiconducting polymer-based organic electronics.
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- Aristide Gumyusenge
- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Purdue University , 560 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, United States
- Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University , 1205 W State Street, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906, United States
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