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MACROMOLECULES
Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 1125-1130Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ma8023415
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The semicrystalline structure of regioregular head-to-tail- (HT-) Coupled poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (Rr-P3HT) thin films grown by directional epitaxial solidification (DES) has been studied by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM). A 10-fold increase of the weight-average molecular weight of the Rr-P3HT leads to several major structural changes: (i) an increase of the fluctuations of the lamellar thickness while preserving the average length of the polymer stems in the crystalline domains; (ii) all increase of the disorder in the crystalline packing of Rr-P3HT chains, (iii.) an enhanced interconnectivity between crystalline lamellae via tie-crystallites and tie-chains; (iv) for M-w >= 18.8 kDa equiv PS, preferential tilt angles of the polymer chains in the crystalline lamellae. Similar to stiff-chain polymers like poly(etheretherketone), the concomitant increase of the interchain distance (i.e., the a parameter in the unit cell) and the tilting of Rr-P3HT chains in the crystalline lamellae are attributed to chain folding exerting stress on the crystal packing because of the stiffness of comb-shaped Rr-P3HT chains.
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