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Side-Chain-Induced Rigid Backbone Organization of Polymer Semiconductors through Semifluoroalkyl Side Chains

Title of paper
Side-Chain-Induced Rigid Backbone Organization of Polymer Semiconductors through Semifluoroalkyl Side Chains
Author
[조길원교수 연구실]
Publication in journal
Journal of the American Chemical Society 138(11), pp3679-3686 (March 2016)
Publication date
20160323
 
[Abstract]
 
While high-mobility p-type conjugated polymers have been widely reported, high-mobility n-type conjugated polymers are still rare. In the present work, we designed semifluorinated alkyl side chains and introduced them into naphthalene diimide-based polymers (PNDIF-T2 and PNDIF-TVT). We found that the strong self-organization of these side chains induced a high degree of order in the attached polymer backbones by forming a superstructure composed of “backbone crystals” and “side-chain crystals”. This phenomenon was shown to greatly enhance the ordering along the backbone direction, and the resulting polymers thus exhibited unipolar n-channel transport in field-effect transistors with remarkably high electron mobility values of up to 6.50 cm2 V–1 s–1 and with a high on–off current ratio of 105.
 
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b10445