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非共价平面化相互作用产生高度有序且具有热致性的液晶共轭聚合物。

Non-covalent planarizing interactions yield highly ordered and thermotropic liquid crystalline conjugated polymers.

作者信息

Sabury Sina, Xu Zhuang, Saiev Shamil, Davies Daniel, Österholm Anna M, Rinehart Joshua M, Mirhosseini Motahhare, Tong Benedict, Kim Sanggyun, Correa-Baena Juan-Pablo, Coropceanu Veaceslav, Jurchescu Oana D, Brédas Jean-Luc, Diao Ying, Reynolds John R

机构信息

School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332, USA.

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Department of Chemistry, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 600 S. Mathews Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA.

出版信息

Mater Horiz. 2024 Jul 15;11(14):3352-3363. doi: 10.1039/d3mh01974h.

Abstract

Controlling the multi-level assembly and morphological properties of conjugated polymers through structural manipulation has contributed significantly to the advancement of organic electronics. In this work, a redox active conjugated polymer, TPT-TT, composed of alternating 1,4-(2-thienyl)-2,5-dialkoxyphenylene (TPT) and thienothiophene (TT) units is reported with non-covalent intramolecular S⋯O and S⋯H-C interactions that induce controlled main-chain planarity and solid-state order. As confirmed by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, these intramolecular interactions influence the main chain conformation, promoting backbone planarization, while still allowing dihedral rotations at higher kinetic energies (higher temperature), and give rise to temperature-dependent aggregation properties. Thermotropic liquid crystalline (LC) behavior is confirmed by cross-polarized optical microscopy (CPOM) and closely correlated with multiple thermal transitions observed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). This LC behavior allows us to develop and utilize a thermal annealing treatment that results in thin films with notable long-range order, as shown by grazing-incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD). Specifically, we identified a first LC phase, ranging from 218 °C to 107 °C, as a nematic phase featuring preferential face-on π-π stacking and edge-on lamellar stacking exhibiting a large extent of disorder and broad orientation distribution. A second LC phase is observed from 107 °C to 48 °C, as a smectic A phase featuring sharp, highly ordered out-of-plane lamellar stacking features and sharp tilted backbone stacking peaks, while the structure of a third LC phase with a transition at 48 °C remains unclear, but resembles that of the solid state at ambient temperature. Furthermore, the significance of thermal annealing is evident in the ∼3-fold enhancement of the electrical conductivity of ferric tosylate-doped annealed films reaching 55 S cm. More importantly, thermally annealed TPT-TT films exhibit both a narrow distribution of charge-carrier mobilities (1.4 ± 0.1) × 10 cm V s along with a remarkable device yield of 100% in an organic field-effect transistor (OFET) configuration. This molecular design approach to obtain highly ordered conjugated polymers in the solid state affords a deeper understanding of how intramolecular interactions and repeat-unit symmetry impact liquid crystallinity, solution aggregation, solution to solid-state transformation, solid-state morphology, and ultimately device applications.

摘要

通过结构调控来控制共轭聚合物的多级组装和形态特性,对有机电子学的发展做出了重大贡献。在这项工作中,报道了一种氧化还原活性共轭聚合物TPT-TT,它由交替的1,4-(2-噻吩基)-2,5-二烷氧基苯撑(TPT)和噻吩并噻吩(TT)单元组成,具有非共价分子内S⋯O和S⋯H-C相互作用,可诱导可控的主链平面度和固态有序性。正如密度泛函理论(DFT)计算所证实的,这些分子内相互作用影响主链构象,促进主链平面化,同时在较高动能(较高温度)下仍允许二面角旋转,并产生温度依赖性聚集特性。热致液晶(LC)行为通过交叉偏振光学显微镜(CPOM)得到证实,并与差示扫描量热法(DSC)观察到的多个热转变密切相关。这种LC行为使我们能够开发并利用一种热退火处理,该处理可得到具有显著长程有序性的薄膜,掠入射X射线衍射(GIXD)结果表明了这一点。具体而言,我们确定了第一个LC相,温度范围为218℃至107℃,为向列相,其特征是优先的面-面π-π堆积和边-面层状堆积,表现出很大程度的无序和宽泛的取向分布。观察到第二个LC相,温度范围为107℃至48℃,为近晶A相,其特征是尖锐、高度有序的面外层状堆积特征和尖锐的倾斜主链堆积峰,而在48℃发生转变的第三个LC相的结构尚不清楚,但类似于室温下的固态结构。此外,热退火的重要性在对甲苯磺酸铁掺杂的退火薄膜的电导率提高约3倍至55 S cm时明显体现出来。更重要的是,热退火的TPT-TT薄膜在有机场效应晶体管(OFET)配置中表现出窄的载流子迁移率分布(1.4±0.1)×10 cm V s,以及100%的显著器件成品率。这种在固态中获得高度有序共轭聚合物 的分子设计方法,能更深入地理解分子内相互作用和重复单元对称性如何影响液晶性、溶液聚集、溶液到固态的转变、固态形态以及最终的器件应用。

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