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ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Volume 19, Issue 12, Pages 1978-1986Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.200900101
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- Department of Energy Office of inertial Confinement Fusion [DE-FC5208NA28302]
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A series of oligo(fluorene-co-bithiophene)s, OF2TS, have been synthesized and characterized to investigate the effects of oligomer length and pendant aliphatic structure on glassy-nematic mesomorphism. The OF2Ts comprising more than one repeat unit and their polymer analogue, PF2T, carrying 52 number-average repeat units, possess the highest occupied molecular orbital energy level at -5.3 +/- 0.2 eV, but the anisotropic field-effect mobilities increase with the oligomer length. Spin coating from high-boiling chlorobenzene with and without subsequent exposure to saturated chlorobenzene vapor constitute solvent-vapor annealing and quasi-solvent annealing, respectively. Solvent-vapor annealing yields monodomain glassy-nematic films in which OF2Ts are aligned as well as with thermal annealing across a 2 cm diameter. Quasi-solvent annealing, however, amounts to kinetically trapping a lower orientational order than solvent-vapor or thermal annealing. While amenable to thermal annealing at elevated temperatures, PF2T shows no alignment at all following either strategy of solvent annealing.
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