Synthesis of a highly conductive coordination polymer film a vapor-solid phase chemical conversion process.

A novel vapor-solid phase chemical conversion process is reported here to synthesise high-quality films of the conductive coordination polymer (c-CP) AgBHT (BHT = benzenehexanothiolate), which has the potential to be applied for the synthesis and processing of c-CP electronic devices. This approach involves reacting a silver oxide precursor and an HBHT linker in an isopropanol solvent vapor atmosphere to obtain AgBHT thin films with controllable thickness (100-300 nm). The as-synthesized AgBHT thin films exhibit conductivities as high as 10 S cm. Additionally, under field-effect modulation, these nanofilms demonstrate remarkably high charge mobility (38 cm v s).