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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Polymer Chemistry
  • Organic Electronics

Background:

  • Optimizing charge transport in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) requires balancing the solution-processability and thin-film crystallinity of conjugated polymers (CPs).
  • Conventional methods often create an inverse relationship between solubility and crystallinity, posing a significant challenge.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a conjugated polymer with enhanced solubility and crystallinity simultaneously.
  • To investigate the impact of skeletal randomization on polymer properties and OFET performance.

Main Methods:

  • Synthesized a quinoid-donor conjugated polymer, PA4T-Ra, using a skeletal randomization strategy with para-azaquinodimethane (p-AQM) and oligothiophenes.
  • Compared PA4T-Ra with conventional polymer homologues to evaluate solubility, crystallinity, and lattice disorder.
  • Fabricated and tested PA4T-Ra-based OFETs under ambient air conditions.

Main Results:

  • The random polymer PA4T-Ra exhibited concurrent improvements in solubility and crystallinity, with moderate aggregation and minimal lattice disorder.
  • PA4T-Ra-based OFETs achieved a high hole mobility of 3.11 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹, approximately 30 times greater than control polymers.
  • Demonstrated that a random polymer backbone sequence can enhance, not decrease, crystallinity.

Conclusions:

  • Skeletal randomization is an effective strategy for designing high-performance conjugated polymers.
  • This approach overcomes the solubility-crystallinity trade-off, enabling advanced organic electronics.
  • Opens new avenues for controlling polymer aggregation and developing next-generation CPs.