Kyaw Aung Ko Ko, Lay Lim Siew, Peng Goh Wei, Changyun Jiang, Jie Zhang
Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (A*STAR), 2 Fusionopolis Way, Singapore 138634.
Chem Commun (Camb). 2016 Jan 7;52(2):358-61. doi: 10.1039/c5cc05247e. Epub 2015 Oct 30.
A nanogroove-guided slot-die coating technique has been developed to manipulate the alignment of polymer chains within a short processing time. A combination of directional movement of slot-die and uniaxial nanogrooves on the substrate for the unidirectional flow of solution suppresses the multiple degrees of conformational freedom, resulting in long-range oriented polymer films and a high field effect mobility of ∼5 cm(2) V(-1) s(-1).