Novel 4, 8-benzobisthiazole copolymers and their field-effect transistor and photovoltaic applications
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Conboy, G., Taylor, R.G.D., Findlay, N.J., Kanibolotsky, A.L., Inigo, A.R., Ghosh, S.S., Ebenhoch, B., Jagadamma, L.K., Thalluri, G.K.V.V. and Sajjad, T. (2017). Novel 4, 8-benzobisthiazole copolymers and their field-effect transistor and photovoltaic applications. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 5 (45), pp. 11927-11936. https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TC03959J
Authors | Conboy, G., Taylor, R.G.D., Findlay, N.J., Kanibolotsky, A.L., Inigo, A.R., Ghosh, S.S., Ebenhoch, B., Jagadamma, L.K., Thalluri, G.K.V.V. and Sajjad, T. |
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Abstract | A series of copolymers containing the benzo[1,2-d:4,5-d′]bis(thiazole) (BBT) unit has been designed and synthesised with bisthienyl-diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP), dithienopyrrole (DTP), benzothiadiazole (BT), benzodithiophene (BDT) or 4,4′-dialkoxybithiazole (BTz) comonomers. The resulting polymers possess a conjugation pathway that is orthogonal to the more usual substitution pathway through the 2,6-positions of the BBT unit, facilitating intramolecular non-covalent interactions between strategically placed heteroatoms of neighbouring monomer units. Such interactions enable a control over the degree of planarity through altering their number and strength, in turn allowing for tuning of the band gap. The resulting 4,8-BBT materials gave enhanced mobility in p-type organic field-effect transistors of up to 2.16 × 10−2 cm2 V−1 s−1 for pDPP2ThBBT and good solar cell performance of up to 4.45% power conversion efficiency for pBT2ThBBT. |
Year | 2017 |
Journal | Journal of Materials Chemistry C |
Journal citation | 5 (45), pp. 11927-11936 |
Publisher | Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) |
ISSN | 2050-7534 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1039/C7TC03959J |
Publication dates | |
13 Nov 2017 | |
Online | 13 Nov 2017 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 15 Oct 2017 |
Deposited | 12 Feb 2020 |
Publisher's version | License File Access Level Open |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/88z67
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