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Schmatz B, Yuan Z, Lang AW, et al. Aqueous Processing for Printed Organic Electronics: Conjugated Polymers with Multistage Cleavable Side Chains. ACS Cent Sci. 2017;3(9):961-967doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00232.
Schmatz, B., Yuan, Z., Lang, A. W., Hernandez, J. L., Reichmanis, E., & Reynolds, J. R. (2017). Aqueous Processing for Printed Organic Electronics: Conjugated Polymers with Multistage Cleavable Side Chains. ACS central science, 3(9), 961-967. https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00232
Schmatz, Brian, et al. "Aqueous Processing for Printed Organic Electronics: Conjugated Polymers with Multistage Cleavable Side Chains." ACS central science vol. 3,9 (2017): 961-967. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.7b00232
Schmatz B, Yuan Z, Lang AW, Hernandez JL, Reichmanis E, Reynolds JR. Aqueous Processing for Printed Organic Electronics: Conjugated Polymers with Multistage Cleavable Side Chains. ACS Cent Sci. 2017 Sep 27;3(9):961-967. doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00232. Epub 2017 Aug 16. PMID: 28979937; PMCID: PMC5620976.
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ACS Cent Sci. 2017 Sep 27;3(9):961-967. doi: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00232. Epub 2017 Aug 16.

Aqueous Processing for Printed Organic Electronics: Conjugated Polymers with Multistage Cleavable Side Chains.

ACS central science

Brian Schmatz, Zhibo Yuan, Augustus W Lang, Jeff L Hernandez, Elsa Reichmanis, John R Reynolds

Affiliations

  1. School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States.
  2. School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, Georgia Tech Polymer Network, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0400, United States.

PMID: 28979937 PMCID: PMC5620976 DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.7b00232

Abstract

The ability to process conjugated polymers via aqueous solution is highly advantageous for reducing the costs and environmental hazards of large scale roll-to-roll processing of organic electronics. However, maintaining competitive electronic properties while achieving aqueous solubility is difficult for several reasons: (1) Materials with polar functional groups that provide aqueous solubility can be difficult to purify and characterize, (2) many traditional coupling and polymerization reactions cannot be performed in aqueous solution, and (3) ionic groups, though useful for obtaining aqueous solubility, can lead to a loss of solid-state order, as well as a screening of any applied bias. As an alternative, we report a multistage cleavable side chain method that combines desirable aqueous processing attributes without sacrificing semiconducting capabilities. Through the attachment of cleavable side chains, conjugated polymers have for the first time been synthesized, characterized, and purified in organic solvents, converted to a water-soluble form for aqueous processing, and brought through a final treatment to cleave the polymer side chains and leave behind the desired electronic material as a solvent-resistant film. Specifically, we demonstrate an organic soluble polythiophene that is converted to an aqueous soluble polyelectrolyte via hydrolysis. After blade coating from an aqueous solution, UV irradiation is used to cleave the polymer's side chains, resulting in a solvent-resistant, electroactive polymer thin film. In application, this process results in aqueous printed materials with utility for solid-state charge transport in organic field effect transistors (OFETs), along with red to colorless electrochromism in ionic media for color changing displays, demonstrating its potential as a universal method for aqueous printing in organic electronics.

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