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Xiaoming Chen, Hualei Liu, Zhangping Xu1
1‡CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China.
Abstract:
A highly regiosymmetric homopolymer based on a diethyl malonate derivatized 3,4-propylenedioxythiophene (ProDOT) monomer was synthesized through FeCl3 oxidative polymerization and postpolymerization functionalization to realize a water-processable blue-to-transmissive switching electrochromic polymer (WPECP-blue). As an electrochromic material, the polymer has a high electrochromic contrast ΔTmax=56% at 580 nm and a relatively fast switching speed t95=1.8 s, and shows only contrast loss of 11% (from 56% to 45%) at square wave potential step of 5 s over 11,000 switching cycles, making it a desirable candidate for electrochromic applications such as windows and displays.
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