Journal
JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE
Volume 59, Issue 12, Pages 1285-1292Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/pol.20200673
Keywords
aggregation; chain orientation; diketopyrrolopyrrole polymers; electronic devices; polymorphism
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- FP7 Ideas: European Research Council [339031]
- Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap [024.001.035]
- National Key R&D Program of China [2019YFA0706100]
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [62074163]
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Few semiconducting polymers are known to possess more than one semi-crystalline structure, and guidelines for rationalizing or creating polymorphism in these materials do not exist. Two different semi-crystalline polymorphs have been identified recently, and it has been found that more solvents can induce the formation of distinct semi-crystalline polymorphs.
Few semiconducting polymers are known that possess more than one semi-crystalline structure. Guidelines for rationalizing or creating polymorphism in these materials do not exist. Two different semi-crystalline polymorphs, beta(1) and beta(2), and an amorphous alpha phase have recently been identified for alternating diketopyrrolopyrrole-quaterthiophene copolymers (PDPP4T). The polymorphs differ structurally by the pi-pi stacking distance, and electronically by the optical bandgap and charge carrier mobility. Here we investigate the corresponding terthiophene (PDPP3T) derivatives, to study the effect of the relative orientation of adjacent DPP units on the polymorphism. In PDPP3T, the relative orientation of DPP units alternates along the chain, while in PDPP4T it is constant. We show that the two polymorphs, beta(1) and beta(2), can also be generated for a PDPP3T polymer in solution and thin film. Interestingly, compared to PDPP4T, more solvents can induce the two distinct semi-crystalline polymorphs for PDPP3T via a beta(1) -> alpha -> beta(2) polymorphic transition.
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