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Tuning conformation, assembly, and charge transport properties of conjugated polymers by printing flow.


ABSTRACT: Intrachain charge transport is unique to conjugated polymers distinct from inorganic and small molecular semiconductors and is key to achieving high-performance organic electronics. Polymer backbone planarity and thin film morphology sensitively modulate intrachain charge transport. However, simple, generic nonsynthetic approaches for tuning backbone planarity and the ensuing multiscale assembly process do not exist. We first demonstrate that printing flow is capable of planarizing the originally twisted polymer backbone to substantially increase the conjugation length. This conformation change leads to a marked morphological transition from chiral, twinned domains to achiral, highly aligned morphology, hence a fourfold increase in charge carrier mobilities. We found a surprising mechanism that flow extinguishes a lyotropic twist-bend mesophase upon backbone planarization, leading to the observed morphology and electronic structure transitions.

SUBMITTER: Park KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6688866 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Tuning conformation, assembly, and charge transport properties of conjugated polymers by printing flow.

Park Kyung Sun KS   Kwok Justin J JJ   Dilmurat Rishat R   Qu Ge G   Kafle Prapti P   Luo Xuyi X   Jung Seok-Heon SH   Olivier Yoann Y   Lee Jin-Kyun JK   Mei Jianguo J   Beljonne David D   Diao Ying Y  

Science advances 20190809 8


Intrachain charge transport is unique to conjugated polymers distinct from inorganic and small molecular semiconductors and is key to achieving high-performance organic electronics. Polymer backbone planarity and thin film morphology sensitively modulate intrachain charge transport. However, simple, generic nonsynthetic approaches for tuning backbone planarity and the ensuing multiscale assembly process do not exist. We first demonstrate that printing flow is capable of planarizing the originall  ...[more]

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