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Directly patternable, highly conducting polymers for broad applications in organic electronics.

ABSTRACT: Postdeposition solvent annealing of water-dispersible conducting polymers induces dramatic structural rearrangement and improves electrical conductivities by more than two orders of magnitude. We attain electrical conductivities in excess of 50 S/cm when polyaniline films are exposed to dichloroacetic acid. Subjecting commercially available poly(ethylene dioxythiophene) to the same treatment yields a conductivity as high as 250 S/cm. This process has enabled the wide incorporation of conducting polymers in organic electronics; conducting polymers that are not typically processable can now be deposited from solution and their conductivities subsequently enhanced to practical levels via a simple and straightforward solvent annealing process. The treated conducting polymers are thus promising alternatives for metals as source and drain electrodes in organic thin-film transistors as well as for transparent metal oxide conductors as anodes in organic solar cells and light-emitting diodes.

SUBMITTER: Yoo JE

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2851868 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Directly patternable, highly conducting polymers for broad applications in organic electronics.

Yoo Joung Eun JE Lee Kwang Seok KS Garcia Andres A Tarver Jacob J Gomez Enrique D ED Baldwin Kimberly K Sun Yangming Y Meng Hong H Nguyen Thuc-Quyen TQ Loo Yueh-Lin YL

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100308 13

Postdeposition solvent annealing of water-dispersible conducting polymers induces dramatic structural rearrangement and improves electrical conductivities by more than two orders of magnitude. We attain electrical conductivities in excess of 50 S/cm when polyaniline films are exposed to dichloroacetic acid. Subjecting commercially available poly(ethylene dioxythiophene) to the same treatment yields a conductivity as high as 250 S/cm. This process has enabled the wide incorporation of conducting ...[more]

PMID: 20212152

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Directly patternable, highly conducting polymers for broad applications in organic electronics.

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