Search Menu
DOE PAGES title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information
Search Scholarly Publications

Title: Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films

Abstract

Stretchable semiconducting polymers have been developed as a key component to enable skin-like wearable electronics, but their electrical performance must be improved to enable more advanced functionalities. Here, we report a solution processing approach that can achieve multi-scale ordering and alignment of conjugated polymers in stretchable semiconductors to substantially improve their charge carrier mobility. Using solution shearing with a patterned microtrench coating blade, macroscale alignment of conjugated-polymer nanostructures was achieved along the charge transport direction. In conjunction, the nanoscale spatial confinement aligns chain conformation and promotes short-range π–π ordering, substantially reducing the energetic barrier for charge carrier transport. As a result, the mobilities of stretchable conjugated-polymer films have been enhanced up to threefold and maintained under a strain up to 100%. This method may also serve as the basis for large-area manufacturing of stretchable semiconducting films, as demonstrated by the roll-to-roll coating of metre-scale films.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [2];  [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2];  [4]; ORCiD logo [5]; ORCiD logo [6];  [7];  [8];  [9]; ORCiD logo [2];  [2]; ORCiD logo [10];  [2];  [3]; ; ; more »; ; ORCiD logo [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [2] « less
+ Show Author Affiliations
  1. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering; Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Nanoscience and Technology Division
  2. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering
  3. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
  4. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering; Univ. of Chicago, IL (United States). Inst. for Molecular Engineering
  5. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering; Katholieke Univ. Leuven (Belgium). Dept. of Materials Engineering
  6. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Chemical Engineering; SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States). Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SSRL); Univ. of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS (United States). School of Polymer Science and Engineering
  7. Nanjing Univ. (China). Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Lab. of Coordination Chemistry
  8. Nanjing Univ. (China). Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Lab. of Coordination Chemistry
  9. Gyeongsang National Univ., Jinju (South Korea). Dept. of Chemistry and RINS
  10. Stanford Univ., CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1532482
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-76SF00515
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Nature Materials
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 18; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 1476-1122
Publisher:
Springer Nature - Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY

Citation Formats

Xu, Jie, Wu, Hung-Chin, Zhu, Chenxin, Ehrlich, Anatol, Shaw, Leo, Nikolka, Mark, Wang, Sihong, Molina-Lopez, Francisco, Gu, Xiaodan, Luo, Shaochuan, Zhou, Dongshan, Kim, Yun-Hi, Wang, Ging-Ji Nathan, Gu, Kevin, Feig, Vivian Rachel, Chen, Shucheng, Kim, Yeongin, Katsumata, Toru, Zheng, Yu-Qing, Yan, He, Chung, Jong Won, Lopez, Jeffrey, Murmann, Boris, and Bao, Zhenan. Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1038/s41563-019-0340-5.
Copy to clipboard
Xu, Jie, Wu, Hung-Chin, Zhu, Chenxin, Ehrlich, Anatol, Shaw, Leo, Nikolka, Mark, Wang, Sihong, Molina-Lopez, Francisco, Gu, Xiaodan, Luo, Shaochuan, Zhou, Dongshan, Kim, Yun-Hi, Wang, Ging-Ji Nathan, Gu, Kevin, Feig, Vivian Rachel, Chen, Shucheng, Kim, Yeongin, Katsumata, Toru, Zheng, Yu-Qing, Yan, He, Chung, Jong Won, Lopez, Jeffrey, Murmann, Boris, & Bao, Zhenan. Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0340-5
Copy to clipboard
Xu, Jie, Wu, Hung-Chin, Zhu, Chenxin, Ehrlich, Anatol, Shaw, Leo, Nikolka, Mark, Wang, Sihong, Molina-Lopez, Francisco, Gu, Xiaodan, Luo, Shaochuan, Zhou, Dongshan, Kim, Yun-Hi, Wang, Ging-Ji Nathan, Gu, Kevin, Feig, Vivian Rachel, Chen, Shucheng, Kim, Yeongin, Katsumata, Toru, Zheng, Yu-Qing, Yan, He, Chung, Jong Won, Lopez, Jeffrey, Murmann, Boris, and Bao, Zhenan. Mon . "Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0340-5. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1532482.
Copy to clipboard
@article{osti_1532482,
title = {Multi-scale ordering in highly stretchable polymer semiconducting films},
author = {Xu, Jie and Wu, Hung-Chin and Zhu, Chenxin and Ehrlich, Anatol and Shaw, Leo and Nikolka, Mark and Wang, Sihong and Molina-Lopez, Francisco and Gu, Xiaodan and Luo, Shaochuan and Zhou, Dongshan and Kim, Yun-Hi and Wang, Ging-Ji Nathan and Gu, Kevin and Feig, Vivian Rachel and Chen, Shucheng and Kim, Yeongin and Katsumata, Toru and Zheng, Yu-Qing and Yan, He and Chung, Jong Won and Lopez, Jeffrey and Murmann, Boris and Bao, Zhenan},
abstractNote = {Stretchable semiconducting polymers have been developed as a key component to enable skin-like wearable electronics, but their electrical performance must be improved to enable more advanced functionalities. Here, we report a solution processing approach that can achieve multi-scale ordering and alignment of conjugated polymers in stretchable semiconductors to substantially improve their charge carrier mobility. Using solution shearing with a patterned microtrench coating blade, macroscale alignment of conjugated-polymer nanostructures was achieved along the charge transport direction. In conjunction, the nanoscale spatial confinement aligns chain conformation and promotes short-range π–π ordering, substantially reducing the energetic barrier for charge carrier transport. As a result, the mobilities of stretchable conjugated-polymer films have been enhanced up to threefold and maintained under a strain up to 100%. This method may also serve as the basis for large-area manufacturing of stretchable semiconducting films, as demonstrated by the roll-to-roll coating of metre-scale films.},
doi = {10.1038/s41563-019-0340-5},
journal = {Nature Materials},
number = 6,
volume = 18,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {4}
}
Copy to clipboard
Journal Article:
Free Publicly Available Full Text
Publisher's Version of Record
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-019-0340-5
Copyright Statement
Other availability
Search WorldCat Search WorldCat to find libraries that may hold this journal
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 37 works
Citation information provided by
Web of Science
Save / Share:
Export Metadata
Save to My Library
You must Sign In or Create an Account in order to save documents to your library.

Works referenced in this record:

Bring on the bodyNET
journal, September 2017

  • Chu, Bryant; Burnett, William; Chung, Jong Won
  • Nature, Vol. 549, Issue 7672
  • DOI: 10.1038/549328a

Skin-Inspired Electronics: An Emerging Paradigm
journal, April 2018

The rise of plastic bioelectronics
journal, December 2016

  • Someya, Takao; Bao, Zhenan; Malliaras, George G.
  • Nature, Vol. 540, Issue 7633
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature21004

Skin electronics from scalable fabrication of an intrinsically stretchable transistor array
journal, February 2018

Stretchable Polymer Semiconductors for Plastic Electronics
journal, January 2018

  • Wang, Ging-Ji Nathan; Gasperini, Andrea; Bao, Zhenan
  • Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 4, Issue 2
  • DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700429

Mechanical Properties of Organic Semiconductors for Stretchable, Highly Flexible, and Mechanically Robust Electronics
journal, March 2017

Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors
journal, November 2016

  • Oh, Jin Young; Rondeau-Gagné, Simon; Chiu, Yu-Cheng
  • Nature, Vol. 539, Issue 7629
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature20102

Tough, Semiconducting Polyethylene-poly(3-hexylthiophene) Diblock Copolymers
journal, October 2007

  • Müller, C.; Goffri, S.; Breiby, D. W.
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 15
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200601248

Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement effect
journal, January 2017

Glass transition of polymers in bulk, confined geometries, and near interfaces
journal, January 2017

  • Napolitano, Simone; Glynos, Emmanouil; Tito, Nicholas B.
  • Reports on Progress in Physics, Vol. 80, Issue 3
  • DOI: 10.1088/1361-6633/aa5284

Deformable Organic Nanowire Field-Effect Transistors
journal, January 2018

  • Lee, Yeongjun; Oh, Jin Young; Kim, Taeho Roy
  • Advanced Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 7
  • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201704401

Stretchable and Transparent Organic Semiconducting Thin Film with Conjugated Polymer Nanowires Embedded in an Elastomeric Matrix
journal, October 2015

  • Song, Eunjoo; Kang, Boseok; Choi, Hyun Ho
  • Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201500250

Approaching disorder-free transport in high-mobility conjugated polymers
journal, November 2014

  • Venkateshvaran, Deepak; Nikolka, Mark; Sadhanala, Aditya
  • Nature, Vol. 515, Issue 7527
  • DOI: 10.1038/nature13854

Conformational Order in Aggregates of Conjugated Polymers
journal, May 2015

  • Jackson, Nicholas E.; Kohlstedt, Kevin L.; Savoie, Brett M.
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 137, Issue 19
  • DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b00493

Aggregation control in natural brush-printed conjugated polymer films and implications for enhancing charge transport
journal, November 2017

  • Wang, Gang; Huang, Wei; Eastham, Nicholas D.
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, Issue 47
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1713634114

The polymer physics of single DNA confined in nanochannels
journal, June 2016

  • Dai, Liang; Renner, C. Benjamin; Doyle, Patrick S.
  • Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, Vol. 232
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2015.12.002

High Mobility Field Effect Transistors Based on Macroscopically Oriented Regioregular Copolymers
journal, February 2012

  • Tseng, Hsin-Rong; Ying, Lei; Hsu, Ben B. Y.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 12, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl303612z

Dynamic-template-directed multiscale assembly for large-area coating of highly-aligned conjugated polymer thin films
journal, July 2017

  • Mohammadi, Erfan; Zhao, Chuankai; Meng, Yifei
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms16070

Nucleation, Growth, and Alignment of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanofibers for High-Performance OFETs
journal, February 2017

Alignment and Charge Transport of One-Dimensional Conjugated Polymer Nanowires in Insulating Polymer Blends
journal, December 2016

Record High Hole Mobility in Polymer Semiconductors via Side-Chain Engineering
journal, September 2013

  • Kang, Il; Yun, Hui-Jun; Chung, Dae Sung
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 135, Issue 40
  • DOI: 10.1021/ja405112s

Uniaxial Alignment of Liquid-Crystalline Conjugated Polymers by Nanoconfinement
journal, April 2007

  • Zheng, Zijian; Yim, Keng-Hoong; Saifullah, Mohammad S. M.
  • Nano Letters, Vol. 7, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1021/nl070022k

Versatile Interpenetrating Polymer Network Approach to Robust Stretchable Electronic Devices
journal, September 2017

Charge-Transport Anisotropy in a Uniaxially Aligned Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Copolymer
journal, October 2015

Direct Uniaxial Alignment of a Donor–Acceptor Semiconducting Polymer Using Single-Step Solution Shearing
journal, March 2016

  • Shaw, Leo; Hayoz, Pascal; Diao, Ying
  • ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 8, Issue 14
  • DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b01607

Avoid the kinks when measuring mobility
journal, June 2016

Critical assessment of charge mobility extraction in FETs
journal, December 2017

  • Choi, Hyun Ho; Cho, Kilwon; Frisbie, C. Daniel
  • Nature Materials, Vol. 17, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/nmat5035

Mobility overestimation due to gated contacts in organic field-effect transistors
journal, March 2016

  • Bittle, Emily G.; Basham, James I.; Jackson, Thomas N.
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 7, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10908

Electrical Double-Slope Nonideality in Organic Field-Effect Transistors
journal, February 2018

  • Phan, Hung; Ford, Michael J.; Lill, Alexander T.
  • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 28, Issue 17
  • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201707221

Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells
journal, November 2014

  • Liu, Yuhang; Zhao, Jingbo; Li, Zhengke
  • Nature Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6293

Highly Stretchable Transistors Using a Microcracked Organic Semiconductor
journal, April 2014

Current-Induced Joule Heating and Electrical Field Effects in Low Temperature Measurements on TIPS Pentacene Thin Film Transistors
journal, November 2016

  • Nikiforov, Gueorgui O.; Venkateshvaran, Deepak; Mooser, Sebastian
  • Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 2, Issue 12
  • DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201600163
    Sort by:
    [ × clear filter / sort ]

    Works referencing / citing this record:

    Wood‐Inspired Morphologically Tunable Aligned Hydrogel for High‐Performance Flexible All‐Solid‐State Supercapacitors
    journal, January 2020

    • Zhao, Yusen; Alsaid, Yousif; Yao, Bowen
    • Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 30, Issue 10
    • DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201909133

    Developments of Diketopyrrolopyrrole‐Dye‐Based Organic Semiconductors for a Wide Range of Applications in Electronics
    journal, December 2019

    • Liu, Qian; Bottle, Steven E.; Sonar, Prashant
    • Advanced Materials, Vol. 32, Issue 4
    • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201903882

    Electronic Skin: Recent Progress and Future Prospects for Skin‐Attachable Devices for Health Monitoring, Robotics, and Prosthetics
    journal, September 2019

    • Yang, Jun Chang; Mun, Jaewan; Kwon, Se Young
    • Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, Issue 48
    • DOI: 10.1002/adma.201904765

    Bar‐Coated Organic Thin‐Film Transistors with Reliable Electron Mobility Approaching 10 cm 2 V −1 s −1
    journal, December 2019

    • Bai, Junhua; Jiang, Yu; Wang, Zhongli
    • Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 6, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201901002

    Physical sensors for skin‐inspired electronics
    journal, December 2019

    Challenge and Solution of Characterizing Glass Transition Temperature for Conjugated Polymers by Differential Scanning Calorimetry
    journal, August 2019

    • Qian, Zhiyuan; Galuska, Luke; McNutt, William W.
    • Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics, Vol. 57, Issue 23
    • DOI: 10.1002/polb.24889

    Conductive polymer nanoantennas for dynamic organic plasmonics
    journal, December 2019

    • Chen, Shangzhi; Kang, Evan S. H.; Shiran Chaharsoughi, Mina
    • Nature Nanotechnology, Vol. 15, Issue 1
    • DOI: 10.1038/s41565-019-0583-y

    Recent advances in the orientation of conjugated polymers for organic field-effect transistors
    journal, January 2019

    • Pandey, Manish; Kumari, Nikita; Nagamatsu, Shuichi
    • Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Vol. 7, Issue 43
    • DOI: 10.1039/c9tc04397g

    Stretchable Conductive Hybrid Films Consisting of Cubic Silsesquioxane-capped Polyurethane and Poly(3-hexylthiophene)
    journal, July 2019

      Sort by:
      [ × clear filter / sort ]

      Similar Records in DOE PAGES and OSTI.GOV collections: