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Sequencing conjugated polymers by eye.

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Peer-reviewed

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Article

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Authors

Perdigão, Luís MA 
Blohm, Jonathan 

Abstract

The solid-state microstructure of a conjugated polymer is the most important parameter determining its properties and performance in (opto)-electronic devices. A huge amount of research has been dedicated to tuning and understanding how the sequence of monomers, the nature and frequency of defects, the exact backbone conformation, and the assembly and crystallinity of conjugated polymers affect their basic photophysics and charge transporting properties. However, because of the lack of reliable high-resolution analytical techniques, all the structure-property relations proposed in the literature are based either on molecular modeling or on indirect experimental data averaged on polydisperse samples. We show that a combination of electrospray vacuum deposition and high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy allows the imaging of individual conjugated polymers with unprecedented detail, thereby unraveling structural and self-assembly characteristics that have so far been impossible to determine.

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0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry, Bioengineering

Journal Title

Sci Adv

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Journal ISSN

2375-2548
2375-2548

Volume Title

4

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Sponsorship
European Research Council (679789)