Title
Conductive triethylene glycol monomethyl ether substituted polythiophenes with high stability in the doped state
Date Issued
15 May 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Dissanayake D.S.
Gunathilake S.S.
Udamulle Gedara C.M.
Du J.
Yoo S.H.
Lee Y.
Wang Q.
Biewer M.C.
Stefan M.C.
The Pennsylvania State University
Publisher(s)
John Wiley and Sons Inc.
Abstract
Synthesis of two conducting polymers containing 3-hexylthiophene and 3-[2-(2-(2-methoxyethoxy)ethoxy)ethoxy]thiophene is demonstrated. In thin-film transistors, the high-molecular-weight polymer shows an average mobility of 4.2 × 10 −4 cm 2 V −1 s −1 . Most importantly, the polymers have high conductivity upon doping with iodine and also have high stability in the doped state with high conductivities measured even after 1 month. Furthermore, the doping causes transparency to thin films of the polymer and the films are resistant to common organic solvents. All these properties indicate a great potential for the iodine-doped polymer to be used as an alternative to commercially available poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrene sulfonate). © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2019, 57, 1079–1086.
Start page
1079
End page
1086
Volume
57
Issue
10
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia de los polímeros
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85062956339
Source
Journal of Polymer Science, Part A: Polymer Chemistry
ISSN of the container
0887624X
Sponsor(s)
We are gratefully acknowledging the financial support Welch Foundation (AT-1740). The authors would like to thank Qing Wang, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA for grazing-incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering data analysis and Elizabeth A. Rainbolt (liz.rainbolt@gmail.com) for X-ray diffraction analysis.
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