Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymer Entailing Triethylene Glycols as Side Chains with High Thin-Film Charge Mobility without Post-Treatments

Yang, Si-Fen; Liu, Zi-Tong; Cai, Zheng-Xu; Dyson, Matthew J.; Stingelin, Natalie; Chen, Wei; Ju, Hua-Jun; Zhang, Guan-Xin; Zhang, De-Qing

doi:10.1002/advs.201700048

Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Conjugated Polymer Entailing Triethylene Glycols as Side Chains with High Thin-Film Charge Mobility without Post-Treatments

Journal Article · Tue Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Advanced Science

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201700048· OSTI ID:1393174

Yang, Si-Fen ^[1]; Liu, Zi-Tong ^[2]; Cai, Zheng-Xu ^[2]; Dyson, Matthew J. ^[3]; Stingelin, Natalie ^[3]; Chen, Wei ^[4]; Ju, Hua-Jun ^[2]; Zhang, Guan-Xin ^[2]; Zhang, De-Qing ^[1]

Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 P. R. China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 P. R. China
Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190 P. R. China
Department of Materials and Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London, London SW72AZ UK
Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, 9700 Cass Avenue Lemont IL 60439 USA; Institute for Molecular Engineering, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue Chicago IL 60637 USA

Side chain engineering of conjugated donor-acceptor polymers is a new way to manipulate their optoelectronic properties. Two new diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-terthiophene-based conjugated polymers PDPP3T-1 and PDPP3T-2, with both hydrophilic triethylene glycol (TEG) and hydrophobic alkyl chains, are reported. It is demonstrated that the incorporation of TEG chains has a significant effect on the interchain packing and thin-film morphology with noticeable effect on charge transport. Polymer chains of PDPP3T-1 in which TEG chains are uniformly distributed can self-assemble spontaneously into a more ordered thin film. As a result, the thin film of PDPP3T-1 exhibits high saturated hole mobility up to 2.6 cm(2) V-1 s(-1) without any post-treatment. This is superior to those of PDPP3T with just alkyl chains and PDPP3T-2. Moreover, the respective field effect transistors made of PDPP3T-1 can be utilized for sensing ethanol vapor with high sensitivity (down to 100 ppb) and good selectivity.

Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)

Sponsoring Organization:: Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); USDOE Office of Science - Office of Basic Energy Sciences - Materials Sciences and Engineering Division

DOE Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1393174

Journal Information:: Advanced Science, Journal Name: Advanced Science Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 4; ISSN 2198-3844

Publisher:: Wiley

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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