An Alternating 5,5-Dimethylcyclopentadiene-based Copolymer prepared at Room Temperature for High Performance Organic Thin Film Transistors

Zhuping Fei, Lei Chen, Yang Han, Eliot Gann, Anthony Chesman, Christopher R. McNeill, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Martin Heeney*, Agostino Pietrangelo

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Abstract

We report that the inclusion of non-aromatic 5,5-dimethylcyclopentadiene monomer into a conjugated backbone is an attractive strategy to high performance semiconducting polymers. The use of this monomer enables a room temperature Suzuki copolymerization with a diketopyrrolopyrrole comono-mer to afford a highly soluble, high molecular weight material. The resulting low band gap polymer exhibits excellent photo and thermal stability, and despite a large π-π stacking distance of 4.26 Å, it demonstrates excellent performance in thin-film transistor devices.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)8094-8097
Number of pages4
JournalJournal of the American Chemical Society
Volume139
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 12 2017

Bibliographical note

KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledgements: We thank Rutgers University, the British Council (173601536) and the Australian Research Council (DP130101861) for the financial support. This work was performed in part on the SAXS/WAXS beamline at the Australian Synchrotron, Victoria, Australia.

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