Conjugated Copolymers of Vinylene Flanked Naphthalene Diimide Academic Article

abstract

• 2016 American Chemical Society. We report the synthesis of a novel naphthalene diimide (NDI) monomer containing two (tributylstannyl)vinyl groups. The utility of this building block is demonstrated by its copolymerization with five different electron-rich comonomers under Stille conditions. The resulting high molecular weight polymers show red-shifted optical absorptions in comparison to the analogous polymers without the vinylene spacer and a significant increase in the intensity of the low-energy intramolecular charge transfer band. The polymers all exhibit ambipolar behavior in bottom-gate, top-contact organic thin-film transistors. The insertion of a solution-processed barium hydroxide layer between the polymer and the gold electrode led to unipolar behavior with improved electron mobilities.

authors

• Al-Hashimi (FRSC), Mohammed

published proceedings

• MACROMOLECULES

altmetric score

• 1

author list (cited authors)

• Fei, Z., Han, Y., Martin, J., Scholes, F. H., Al-Hashimi, M., AlQaradawi, S. Y., ... Heeney, M.

citation count

• 43

complete list of authors

• Fei, Zhuping||Han, Yang||Martin, Jaime||Scholes, Fiona H||Al-Hashimi, Mohammed||AlQaradawi, Siham Y||Stingelin, Natalie||Anthopoulos, Thomas D||Heeney, Martin

publication date

• September 2016

publisher

• American Chemical Society (ACS)  Publisher

published in

• MACROMOLECULES  Journal

keywords

• 34 Chemical Sciences
• 3403 Macromolecular And Materials Chemistry
• 40 Engineering
• 4016 Materials Engineering

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01423

start page

• 6384

end page

• 6393

volume

• 49

issue

• 17

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.macromol.6b01423