Benzotrithiophene Co-polymers with high charge carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors

Bob C. Schroeder; Christian B. Nielsen; Young Ju Kim; Jeremy Smith; Zhenggang Huang; James Durrant; Scott E. Watkins; Kigook Song; Thomas D. Anthopoulos; Iain McCulloch

doi:10.1021/cm2015884

Benzotrithiophene Co-polymers with high charge carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors

Bob C. Schroeder, Christian B. Nielsen, Young Ju Kim, Jeremy Smith, Zhenggang Huang, James Durrant, Scott E. Watkins, Kigook Song, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Iain McCulloch

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Abstract

The successful design and synthesis of two novel benzo[1,2-b:3,4-b′: 5,6-d′]trithiophene-containing polymers is presented. The planar benzotrithiophene core induces strong aggregation effects in alternating co-polymers with both thiophene and thieno[3,2-b]thiophene. Co-monomer choice is found to play a crucial role in determining the backbone conformation, the interchain interactions, and the polymer solubility. Despite molecular disorder introduced by a branched solubilizing alkyl chain and a regiorandom polymerization of the asymmetric benzotrithiophene unit, these co-polymers exhibit hole mobilities as high as 0.24 cm²/(V s).

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	4025-4031
Number of pages	7
Journal	Chemistry of Materials
Volume	23
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/cm2015884
State	Published - Sep 13 2011
Externally published	Yes

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General Chemistry
General Chemical Engineering
Materials Chemistry

Keywords

benzotrithiophene
conjugated polymers
holemobility
Transistors

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Benzotrithiophene Co-polymers with high charge carrier mobilities in field-effect transistors

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