A Water-Dispersible Quinoid-Resonant Conducting Polymer for Organic Electronics

Abstract

Developing stable and solution-processable highly conductive polymers has been the research goal in organic electronics since the first demonstration of metallic conductive polyacetylene. Here, we used a unique quinoid-resonant building block thieno[3,4-b]thiophene (TbT) to develop a new water-dispersible conducting polymer, PTbT-Me:PSS. Linear polymerization and large surfactant counterion, poly(styrenesulfonate) (PSS⁻), were introduced, which enabled a high electrical conductivity of 68 S cm⁻¹ and exhibited water-dispersible property. Interchain bipolaron was found in PTbT-Me:PSS when compared with polaron in PEDOT:PSS in their conducting mechanism. Moreover, we applied this highly conductive PTbT-Me:PSS as the solution-processed polymer thermoelectric material and a decent power factor of 3.1 μW m⁻¹ K⁻² was achieved.

Key words

conducting polymers - solution-processed - electronic devices - organic thermoelectric materials - energy conversion

Supporting Information

Supporting information for this article is available online at http://doi.org/10.1055/s-0040-1714145.

Publikationsverlauf

Eingereicht: 11. Mai 2020

Angenommen: 04. Juni 2020

Artikel online veröffentlicht:
20. August 2020

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