n ‐Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors
Abstract
Abstract N‐type conjugated polymers as the semiconducting component of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are still undeveloped with respect to their p‐type counterparts. Herein, we report two rigid n‐type conjugated polymers bearing oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) side chains, PgNaN and PgNgN, which demonstrated an essentially torsion‐free π‐conjugated backbone. The planarity and electron‐deficient rigid structures enable the resulting polymers to achieve high electron mobility in an OECT device of up to the 10 −3 cm 2 V −1 s −1 range, with a deep‐lying LUMO energy level lower than −4.0 eV. Prominently, the polymers exhibited a high device performance with a maximum dimensionally normalized transconductance of 0.212 S cm −1 and the product of charge‐carrier mobility μ and volumetric capacitance C* of 0.662±0.113 F cm −1 V −1 s −1 , which are among the highest in n‐type conjugated polymers reported to date. Moreover, the polymers are synthesized via a metal‐free aldol‐condensation polymerization, which is beneficial to their application in bioelectronics.
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- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia
- Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics Imperial College London London W12 0BZ UK
- Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA
- Department of Chemistry Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA
- Department of Biomedical Engineering Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston IL 60208 USA, Simpson Querrey Institute Northwestern University Chicago IL 60611 USA
- Department of Physical Science and Engineering Division King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Thuwal 23955-6900 Saudi Arabia, Department of Chemistry and Centre for Plastic Electronics Imperial College London London W12 0BZ UK, Department of Chemistry Chemistry Research Laboratory University of Oxford Oxford OX1 3TA UK
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- Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)
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- Journal Name: Angewandte Chemie (International Edition) Journal Volume: 60 Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 1433-7851
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- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
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- Germany
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- English
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Chen, Xingxing, Marks, Adam, Paulsen, Bryan D., Wu, Ruiheng, Rashid, Reem B., Chen, Hu, Alsufyani, Maryam, Rivnay, Jonathan, and McCulloch, Iain. n ‐Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Germany: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1002/anie.202013998.
Chen, Xingxing, Marks, Adam, Paulsen, Bryan D., Wu, Ruiheng, Rashid, Reem B., Chen, Hu, Alsufyani, Maryam, Rivnay, Jonathan, & McCulloch, Iain. n ‐Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors. Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202013998
Chen, Xingxing, Marks, Adam, Paulsen, Bryan D., Wu, Ruiheng, Rashid, Reem B., Chen, Hu, Alsufyani, Maryam, Rivnay, Jonathan, and McCulloch, Iain. Fri .
"n ‐Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors". Germany. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202013998.
@article{osti_1776419,
title = {n ‐Type Rigid Semiconducting Polymers Bearing Oligo(Ethylene Glycol) Side Chains for High‐Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors},
author = {Chen, Xingxing and Marks, Adam and Paulsen, Bryan D. and Wu, Ruiheng and Rashid, Reem B. and Chen, Hu and Alsufyani, Maryam and Rivnay, Jonathan and McCulloch, Iain},
abstractNote = {Abstract N‐type conjugated polymers as the semiconducting component of organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) are still undeveloped with respect to their p‐type counterparts. Herein, we report two rigid n‐type conjugated polymers bearing oligo(ethylene glycol) (OEG) side chains, PgNaN and PgNgN, which demonstrated an essentially torsion‐free π‐conjugated backbone. The planarity and electron‐deficient rigid structures enable the resulting polymers to achieve high electron mobility in an OECT device of up to the 10 −3 cm 2 V −1 s −1 range, with a deep‐lying LUMO energy level lower than −4.0 eV. Prominently, the polymers exhibited a high device performance with a maximum dimensionally normalized transconductance of 0.212 S cm −1 and the product of charge‐carrier mobility μ and volumetric capacitance C* of 0.662±0.113 F cm −1 V −1 s −1 , which are among the highest in n‐type conjugated polymers reported to date. Moreover, the polymers are synthesized via a metal‐free aldol‐condensation polymerization, which is beneficial to their application in bioelectronics.},
doi = {10.1002/anie.202013998},
journal = {Angewandte Chemie (International Edition)},
number = 17,
volume = 60,
place = {Germany},
year = {Fri Mar 12 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Fri Mar 12 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}
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