Abstract
Herein, this study investigates the impact of branching-point-extended alkyl chains on the charge transport properties of three ultrahigh n-type mobility conjugated polymers. Using grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering, analysis of the crystallinity of the series shows that while π–π interactions are increased for all three polymers as expected, the impact of the side-chain engineering on polymer backbone crystallinity is unique to each polymer and correlates to the observed changes in charge transport. With the three polymers exhibiting n-type mobilities between 0.63 and 1.04 cm2 V−1 s−1, these results ratify that the indolonaphthyridine building block has an unprecedented intrinsic ability to furnish high-performance n-type organic semiconductors.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 1704069 |
Journal | Advanced Functional Materials |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 43 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 17 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Use of the Advanced Photon Source, an Office of Science User Facility operated for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science by Argonne National Laboratory, was supported by the U.S. DOE under Contract No. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors gratefully acknowledge support for this work from the Qatar National Research Fund project number: NPRP 7-286-1-046.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Keywords
- Organic Field-Effect Transistors (OFETs)
- conjugated polymers
- electron transport
- indolonapthryidine
- polymer crystallinity
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Chemistry(all)
- Materials Science(all)
- Condensed Matter Physics