Ethylene Glycol-Based Side Chain Length Engineering in Polythiophenes and its Impact on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance
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Moser, Maximilian
Savagian, Lisa R.
Savva, Achilleas
Matta, Micaela
Ponder, James F.
Hidalgo, Tania Cecilia
Ohayon, David
Hallani, Rawad
Reisjalali, Maryam
Troisi, Alessandro

Wadsworth, Andrew

Reynolds, John R.

Inal, Sahika

McCulloch, Iain

KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering (BESE) DivisionBioscience Program
Chemical Science Program
Environmental Science and Engineering Program
KAUST Solar Center (KSC)
Organic Bioelectronics Laboratory, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
KAUST Grant Number
OSR-2015-CRG4-2572OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079
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2020-07-22Online Publication Date
2020-07-22Print Publication Date
2020-08-11Embargo End Date
2021-07-22Submitted Date
2020-05-14Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/664370
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Replacing the alkyl side chains on conventional semiconducting polymers with ethylene glycol (EG)-based chains is a successful strategy in the molecular design of mixed conduction materials for bioelectronic devices, including organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). Such polymers have demonstrated the capability to conduct both ionic and electronic charges and can offer superior performance compared to the most commonly used active material, poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(styrenesulfonate). While many research efforts have been dedicated to optimizing OECT performance through the engineering of the semiconducting polymers’ conjugated backbones, variation of the EG chain length has been investigated considerably less. In this work, a series of glycolated polythiophenes with pendant EG chains spanning two to six EG repeat units was synthesized and the electrochemical and structural characteristics of the resulting films were characterized by experimental means and molecular dynamics simulations. OECTs were fabricated and tested, and their performance showed a strong correlation to the the EG side chain length, thereby elucidating important structure−property guidelines for the molecular design of future channel materials. Specifically, a careful balance in the EG length must be struck during the design of EG-functionalized conjugated polymers for OECTs. While minimizing the EG side chain length appears to boost both the capacitive and charge carrier transport properties of the polymers, the chosen EG side chain length must be kept sufficiently long to induce solubility for processing, and allow for the necessary ion interactions with the conjugated polymer backbone.Citation
Moser, M., Savagian, L. R., Savva, A., Matta, M., Ponder, J. F., Hidalgo, T. C., … McCulloch, I. (2020). Ethylene Glycol-Based Side Chain Length Engineering in Polythiophenes and its Impact on Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance. Chemistry of Materials. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02041Sponsors
We acknowledge generous funding from KAUST for financial support. The research reported in this publication was supported by funding from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under awards nos. OSR-2018-CARF/CCF-3079, OSR-2015-CRG4-2572, and OSR-4106 CPF2019. We acknowledge EC FP7 Project SC2 (610115), EC H2020 (643791), and EPSRC Projects EP/G037515/1, EP/M005143/1, and EP/L016702/1. J.R.R. acknowledges funding of this work from the Office of Naval Research (N00014-18-1-2222) and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-18-1-0184). L.R.S. was supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship under Grant No. DGE-1650044. M.M.acknowledges financial support of the Royal Society in the form of a Newton International Fellowship (NIF\R1\181379). Use of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, under Contract No. DE-AC02-76SF00515. S.I. acknowledges funding from KAUST Office of Sponsored Research (OSR) under Award No. OSR-2018-CRG7-3709.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
Chemistry of MaterialsAdditional Links
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02041ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c02041