Abstract
A new soluble and dopable copolymer consisting of 3′,4′-dibutyl-2,2′:5′,2″-terthiophene and phenylene-vinylene units has been designed and prepared via a Wittig reaction. This title copolymer is soluble in common organic solvents such as THF and CHCl3, and can be doped with iodine achieving an electrical conductivity of about 3.2 × 10-2 S/cm at room temperature. Films of this copolymer are electroactive and turn reversibly and rapidly from red to green-blue upon doping and undoping electrochemically.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 71-74 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Synthetic Metals |
Volume | 74 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 1 1995 |
Funding
Financial support from the National Science Foundation (DMR-93-06385) and the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University is gratefully acknowledged. At Northwestern University this work made use of Central Facilities supported by the NSF through the Materials Research Center (DMR-9 l-2052 1) .
Keywords
- Doping
- Poly(3′,4′-dibutyl-α-terthiophene-phenylene-vinylene)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Metals and Alloys
- Materials Chemistry