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Optically Transparent Conducting Polymers from Fused Heterocycles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2011

Mustafa Selman Yavuz ,
Arvind Kumar ,
Byoungchul Lee ,
Jayesh G. Bokria ,
Tanmoy Dey ,
Venkataramanan Seshadri ,
Yogesh Ner ,
Zeki Buyukmumcu  and
Gregory A. Sotzing
Mustafa Selman Yavuz
Affiliation:
mustafa.yavuz@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs CT 06269, United States
Arvind Kumar
Affiliation:
arvind.kumar@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
Byoungchul Lee
Affiliation:
byoungchul.lee@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
Jayesh G. Bokria
Affiliation:
jayesh.bokria@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
Tanmoy Dey
Affiliation:
tanmoy.dey@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
Venkataramanan Seshadri
Affiliation:
venkataraman.seshadri@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
Yogesh Ner
Affiliation:
yogesh.ner@uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
Zeki Buyukmumcu
Affiliation:
zbmumcu@erciyes.edu.tr, Erciyes University, Department of Chemistry, Kayseri, N/A, Turkey
Gregory A. Sotzing
Affiliation:
sotzing@mail.ims.uconn.edu, University of Connecticut, Department of Chemistry and Polymer Program, Institute of Materials Science, 97 N Eagleville Rd, Storrs, CT, 06269, United States
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Abstract

Research in the field of optically transparent conducting polymers has been gaining great attention due to their relatively low processing cost, light weight and flexibility as compared to their inorganic counterpart. Besides having found several applications in the field of electronic and optoelectronic devices, optically transparent conducting polymers are primarily used as a hole- injection layers in photovoltaics and light-emitting devices. Herein, we report the electronic and optoelectronic properties of conducting polymers obtained from different fused heterocycles, viz. thieno[3,4-b]furan, thieno[3,4-b]thiophene, and dimers of thieno[3,4-b]thiophene. Aqueous dispersion polymerization in the presence of poly(styrene sulfonic acid) as a template is also performed to make them processable from water. Water soluble conducting polymer was obtained via ring sulfonation of chemically or electrochemically prepared polythieno[3,4-b]thiophene [PT34bT]. The optical properties were tuned by varying sulfonation level or by depositing different number of bilayers via layer-by-layer technique. Stable conjugated polymers with band gaps ranging from 0.8 to 1.6 eV were obtained.

Keywords

polymertransparent conductorpolymerization
Type
Research Article
Information
MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 965: Symposium S – Organic Electronics – Materials, Devices and Applications , 2006 , 0965-S12-14
Copyright
Copyright © Materials Research Society 2007

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