Title
Phase behavior of poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl)
Date Issued
01 July 2016
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Pennsylvania State University
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Abstract
The phase behavior of many conjugated polymers is rich with both crystalline and liquid crystalline phases. Recent computational efforts have identified the isotropic-to-nematic transition temperature for polymers such as poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT). Herein, model predictions are combined with experimentally determined values of the equilibrium melting temperature as a function of chain length to provide the complete phase behavior for P3HT. Additionally, because a full description of the phase behavior requires proper accounting for the regioregularity of the chain, a thermodynamic relationship is derived to predict this behavior as a function of both chain length and regioregularity and the impact of regioregularity on the expected phase diagram is discussed.
Start page
1202
End page
1206
Volume
54
Issue
13
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia de los polímeros
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84960154508
Source
Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
ISSN of the container
08876266
Sponsor(s)
E. D. Gomez acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under grant no. DMR-1056199.
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