Bottom-Up Electrochemical Fabrication of Conjugated Ultrathin Layers with Tailored Switchable Properties

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• 作者：Verena Stockhausen ; Van Quyen Nguyen ; Pascal Martin ; Jean Christophe Lacroix
• 刊名：ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 11, 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：9
• 期：1
• 页码：610-617
• 全文大小：477K
• ISSN：1944-8252

文摘

A bottom-up electrochemical process for fabricating conjugated ultrathin layers with tailored switchable properties is developed. Ultrathin layers of covalently grafted oligo(bisthienylbenzene) (oligo(BTB)) are used as switchable organic electrodes, and 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) is oxidized on this layer. Adding only a few (less than 3) nanometers of EDOT moieties (5 to 6 units ) completely changes the switching properties of the layer without changing the surface concentration of the electroactive species. A range of new materials with tunable interfacial properties is created. They consist of oligo(BTB)-oligo(EDOT) diblock oligomers of various relative lengths covalently grafted onto the underlying electrode. These films retain reversible redox on/off switching and their switching potential can be finely tuned between +0.6 and −0.3 V/SCE while the overall thickness remains below 11 nm.