TY - JOUR
T1 - α,β-Unsubstituted meso-Positioning Thienyl BODIPY: A Promising Electron Deficient Building Block for the Development of Near Infrared (NIR) p-type Donor-Acceptor (D-A) Conjugated Polymers
AU - Squeo, Benedetta
AU - Gregoriou, Vasilis G.
AU - Han, Yang
AU - Palma-Cando, Alex
AU - Allard, Sybille
AU - Serpetzoglou, Efthymis
AU - Konidakis, Ioannis
AU - Stratakis, Emmanuel
AU - Avgeropoulos, Apostolos
AU - Anthopoulos, Thomas D.
AU - Heeney, Martin
AU - Scherf, Ullrich
AU - Chochos, Christos L.
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: This project has received funding from the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under the Grant Agreement n° 331389 project ECOCHEM, n° 607585 project OSNIRO and no 604603 project MatHero. The authors would like to thank Anke Helfer from BUW for the mass spectrometry measurements.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - It is demonstrated that α,β-unsubstituted meso-positioning thienyl BODIPY is an electron deficient unit that leads to the development of ultra low optical band gap (Egopt < 1 eV) π-conjugated D-A quarterthiophene polymers. Furthermore, it is revealed that the optoelectronic, electrochemical and charge transporting properties of the resulting α,β-unsubstituted meso-positioning thienyl BODIPY quaterthiophene-based polymers are alkyl side chain positioning dependent. Tail-to-tail (TT) positioning of the alkyl side chains at the two central thiophenes of the quaterthiophene segment results to lower Egopt, higher energy levels and increased hole mobility as compared to head-to-head (HH) positioning. Finally, even though the synthesized polymers exhibit high electron affinity, higher even to that of the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM), they present only p-type behaviour in field effect transistors (FETs) independent to the alkyl side chain positioning.
AB - It is demonstrated that α,β-unsubstituted meso-positioning thienyl BODIPY is an electron deficient unit that leads to the development of ultra low optical band gap (Egopt < 1 eV) π-conjugated D-A quarterthiophene polymers. Furthermore, it is revealed that the optoelectronic, electrochemical and charge transporting properties of the resulting α,β-unsubstituted meso-positioning thienyl BODIPY quaterthiophene-based polymers are alkyl side chain positioning dependent. Tail-to-tail (TT) positioning of the alkyl side chains at the two central thiophenes of the quaterthiophene segment results to lower Egopt, higher energy levels and increased hole mobility as compared to head-to-head (HH) positioning. Finally, even though the synthesized polymers exhibit high electron affinity, higher even to that of the fullerene derivative [6,6]-phenyl-C71-butyric acid methyl ester (PC71BM), they present only p-type behaviour in field effect transistors (FETs) independent to the alkyl side chain positioning.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/627232
UR - http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2018/TC/C7TC05900K#!divAbstract
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85045837238&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1039/c7tc05900k
DO - 10.1039/c7tc05900k
M3 - Article
SN - 2050-7526
VL - 6
SP - 4030
EP - 4040
JO - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
JF - Journal of Materials Chemistry C
IS - 15
ER -