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Effect of Alkyl Chain Branching Point on 3D Crystallinity in High N-Type Mobility Indolonaphthyridine Polymers

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Authors

Fallon, KJ 
Santala, A 
Wijeyasinghe, N 
Manley, EF 
Goodeal, N 

Abstract

© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. 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.

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Keywords

conjugated polymers, electron transport, indolonapthryidine, Organic Field-Effect Transistors (OFETs), polymer crystallinity

Journal Title

Advanced Functional Materials

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Journal ISSN

1616-301X
1616-3028

Volume Title

27

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell
Sponsorship
European Research Council (679789)