Use of a Multiple Hydride Donor To Achieve an n-Doped Polymer with High Solvent Resistance
Use of a Multiple Hydride Donor To Achieve an n-Doped Polymer with High Solvent Resistance
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使用多重氢化物供体获得具有高耐溶剂性的 n 掺杂聚合物
DOI:
10.1021/acsami.2c05724
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
9.5
通讯作者:
Koch, Norbert
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作者:
Saeedifard, Farzaneh;Lungwitz, Dominique;Yu, Zi-Di;Schneider, Sebastian;Mansour, Ahmed E.;Opitz, Andreas;Barlow, Stephen;Toney, Michael F.;Pei, Jian;Koch, Norbert
The ability to insolubilize doped semiconducting polymer layers can help enable the fabrication of efficient multilayer solution-processed electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here, we present a promising approach to simultaneously n-dope and largely insolubilize conjugated polymer films using tetrakis[{4-(1,3-dimethyl-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[d]imidazol-2-yl)phenoxy}methyl]methane (tetrakis-O-DMBI-H), which consists of four 2,3-dihydro-1H-benzoimidazole (DMBI-H) n-dopant moieties covalently linked to one another. Doping a thiophene-fused benzodifurandione-based oligo(p-phenylenevinylene)-co-thiophene polymer (TBDOPV-T) with tetrakis-O-DMBI-H results in a highly n-doped film with bulk conductivity of 15 S cm–1. Optical absorption spectra provide evidence for film retention of ∼93% after immersion ino-dichlorobenzene for 5 min. The optical absorption signature of the charge carriers in the n-doped polymer decreases only slightly more than that of the neutral polymer under these conditions, indicating that the exposure to solvent also results in negligible dedoping of the film. Moreover, thermal treatment studies on a tetrakis-O-DMBI-H-doped TBDOPV-T film in contact with another undoped polymer film indicate immobilization of the molecular dopant in TBDOPV-T. This is attributed to the multiple electrostatic interactions between each dopant tetracation and up to four nearby anionic doped polymer segments.