Enhancing Optoelectronic Anisotropy in Highly Oriented Thin Films by Fluorine Substitution in Novel Semiconducting Polymers.

ABSTRACT: The recent past has witnessed remarkable progress in organic electronics, driven by the quest for flexible, lightweight, and cost-effective electronic devices. Semiconducting polymers (SCPs) have emerged as key materials in this field, offering unique electronic and optoelectronic properties along with mechanical flexibility. This study focuses on designing, synthesizing, and utilizing novel donor-acceptor (D-A) copolymer-based SCPs introducing a difluorothiophene moiety in the polymeric backbone. The importance of fluorine substitution for backbone planarity was verified by density functional theory calculations, comparing it with a nonfluorine substituted counterpart. Through the Unidirectional Floating Film Transfer Method (UFTM), we fabricated highly oriented thin films, resulting in i

SUBMITTER: Sharma S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11440466 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature