Efficient Naphthalenediimide-Based Hole Semiconducting Polymer with Vinylene Linkers between Donor and Acceptor Units

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• 作者：Lei Zhang ; Bradley D. Rose ; Yao Liu ; Masrur M. Nahid ; Eliot Gann ; Jack Ly ; Wei Zhao ; Stephen J. Rosa ; Thomas P. Russell ; Antonio Facchetti ; Christopher R. McNeill ; Jean-Luc Brédas ; Alejandro L. Briseno
• 刊名：Chemistry of Materials
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：December 13, 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：28
• 期：23
• 页码：8580-8590
• 全文大小：844K
• ISSN：1520-5002

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We demonstrate a new method to reverse the polarity and charge transport behavior of naphthalenediimide (NDI)-based copolymers by inserting a vinylene linker between the donor and acceptor units. The vinylene linkers minimize the intrinsic steric congestion between the NDI and thiophene moieties to prompt backbone planarity. The polymers with vinylene linkers exhibit electron n-channel transport characteristics under vacuum, similar to the benchmark polymer, P(NDI2OD-T2). To our surprise, when the polymers are measured in air, the dominant carrier type switches from n- to p-type and yield hole mobilities up to 0.45 cm² V^–1 s^–1 with hole to electron mobility ratio of three (μb>hb>/μb>eb>, ∼3), which indicates that the hole density in the active layer can be significantly increased by exposure to air. This increase is consistent with the intrinsic more delocalized nature of the highest occupied molecular orbital of the charged vinylene polymer, as estimated by density functional theory (DFT) calculations, which facilitates hole transport within the polymer chains. This is the first demonstration of an efficient NDI-based hole semiconducting polymer, which will enable new developments in all-polymer solar cells, complementary circuits, and dopable polymers for use in thermoelectrics.