Chalcogenophene-Sensitive Charge Carrier Transport Properties in A–D–A′′–D Type NBDO-Based Copolymers for Flexible Field-Effect Transistors
作者:Keli Shi、Weifeng Zhang、Yankai Zhou、Congyuan Wei、Jianyao Huang、Qiang Wang、Liping Wang、Gui Yu
DOI:10.1021/acs.macromol.8b01944
日期:2018.11.13
The use of chalcogenophenes runs through the whole history of developing high performance pi-conjugated materials toward organic electronics devices. In this work, we report three A-D-A'-D type (3E,7E)-3,7-bis(2-oxo-1H-pyrrolo [2,3-b]pyridin-3(2H)-ylidene)benzo [1,2-b:4,5-b']-difuran-2,6(3H,7H)-dione- (NBDO-) based pi-conjugated copolymers containing different chalcogenophenes, i.e., 4,7 di-(thiophen-2-yl) benzo [c] [1,2,5]thiadiazole (TTT), 4,7-di-(selenophen-2-yl)benzo[c] [1,2,5]thiadiazole (STS), or 4,7-di(selenophen-2-yl)benzo[c][1,2,5]selenadiazole (SSS). The effects of chalcogen atom on their optoelectronic properties were explored by a range of techniques, including thermal, optical, electrochemical, computational, molecular aggregation, and carrier transport properties. Interestingly, both PNBDO-TTT and PNBDO-STS formed highly ordered, crystalline, and lamellar packing thin films with uniform intertwined fibrillar morphologies, whereas PNBDO-SSS only gave random molecular packing thin film with amorphous morphology, despite their similar chemical structures, optical and electrochemical properties. In consequence, PNBDO-TTT and PNBDO-STS-based flexible field-effect transistors on PET substrate exhibited high electron mobilities of 2.41 and 2.68 cm(2) V-1 s(-1), respectively, whereas PNBDO-SSS-based ones only showed a lowered electron mobility of 0.012 cm(2) V-1 s(-1).