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Title: A Facile Approach to Improve Interchain Packing Order and Charge Mobilities by Self‐Assembly of Conjugated Polymers on Water

Abstract

Abstract Development of facile and economic approaches for assembling organic semiconductors into more ordered structures toward high charge mobilities is highly demanding for the fabrication of organic circuits. Here a simple and facile approach is reported to prepare conjugated polymer thin films with improved crystallinities and charge mobilities by self‐assembling semiconducting polymers on water. The formation of polymer thin films with more ordered structures is attributed to coffee ring effect induced by solvent‐evaporation on water, and the hydrophobic nature of conjugated polymers that forces the polymer chains to pack densely and orderly on water surface. This approach is applicable to typical semiconducting polymers, and charge mobilities of their thin films are boosted remarkably. Finally, this new method can be utilized to easily fabricate the array of field‐effect transistors with high charge mobilities in an economic way.

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 [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [4];  [1];  [5];  [2];  [1]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Science Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China, School of Chemical Sciences University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100049 P. R. China
  2. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences CAS Key Laboratory of Organic Solids CAS Center of Excellence in Molecular Science Institute of Chemistry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 P. R. China
  3. Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM) Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon‐Based Functional Materials and Devices Soochow University Suzhou 215123 China
  4. Beijing Key Laboratory of Construction Tailorable Advanced Functional Materials and Green Applications School of Material Science &, Engineering Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing 100081 China
  5. Institute for Molecular Engineering and 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
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Research Org.:
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES) (SC-22). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Key Research and Development Program of China; Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) - Strategic Priority Research Program
OSTI Identifier:
1479514
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1479515; OSTI ID: 1488569
Grant/Contract Number:  
DE‐AC02‐06CH11357; AC02-06CH11357
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Advanced Science
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Advanced Science Journal Volume: 5 Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 2198-3844
Publisher:
Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
Country of Publication:
Germany
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 37 INORGANIC, ORGANIC, PHYSICAL, AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY; charge mobility; conjugated polymers; packing order; self-assembly

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Yang, Yizhou, Liu, Zitong, Chen, Jianmei, Cai, Zhengxu, Wang, Zhijie, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Guanxin, Zhang, Xisha, Chi, Lifeng, and Zhang, Deqing. A Facile Approach to Improve Interchain Packing Order and Charge Mobilities by Self‐Assembly of Conjugated Polymers on Water. Germany: N. p., 2018. Web. doi:10.1002/advs.201801497.
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Yang, Yizhou, Liu, Zitong, Chen, Jianmei, Cai, Zhengxu, Wang, Zhijie, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Guanxin, Zhang, Xisha, Chi, Lifeng, & Zhang, Deqing. A Facile Approach to Improve Interchain Packing Order and Charge Mobilities by Self‐Assembly of Conjugated Polymers on Water. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201801497
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Yang, Yizhou, Liu, Zitong, Chen, Jianmei, Cai, Zhengxu, Wang, Zhijie, Chen, Wei, Zhang, Guanxin, Zhang, Xisha, Chi, Lifeng, and Zhang, Deqing. Tue . "A Facile Approach to Improve Interchain Packing Order and Charge Mobilities by Self‐Assembly of Conjugated Polymers on Water". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201801497.
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@article{osti_1479514,
title = {A Facile Approach to Improve Interchain Packing Order and Charge Mobilities by Self‐Assembly of Conjugated Polymers on Water},
author = {Yang, Yizhou and Liu, Zitong and Chen, Jianmei and Cai, Zhengxu and Wang, Zhijie and Chen, Wei and Zhang, Guanxin and Zhang, Xisha and Chi, Lifeng and Zhang, Deqing},
abstractNote = {Abstract Development of facile and economic approaches for assembling organic semiconductors into more ordered structures toward high charge mobilities is highly demanding for the fabrication of organic circuits. Here a simple and facile approach is reported to prepare conjugated polymer thin films with improved crystallinities and charge mobilities by self‐assembling semiconducting polymers on water. The formation of polymer thin films with more ordered structures is attributed to coffee ring effect induced by solvent‐evaporation on water, and the hydrophobic nature of conjugated polymers that forces the polymer chains to pack densely and orderly on water surface. This approach is applicable to typical semiconducting polymers, and charge mobilities of their thin films are boosted remarkably. Finally, this new method can be utilized to easily fabricate the array of field‐effect transistors with high charge mobilities in an economic way.},
doi = {10.1002/advs.201801497},
journal = {Advanced Science},
number = 11,
volume = 5,
place = {Germany},
year = {Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Tue Oct 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Figure 1. Figure 1.: Schematic illustration of the thin films fabrication based on conjugated polymers by using the AOW method. Polymer solution is dropped on water surface to form a partly spread solution drop. As solvent evaporating at contact line, polymers gradually assemble at the edge and result in the formation ofmore » thin films with stripe-like structures. Thin films can be transferred onto solid substrates and dried by blowing with dry N2, and the resulting thin films are used to fabricate field-effect transistors.« less
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