Meniscus-Assisted Solution Printing Enables Cocrystallization in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based Blends for Field-Effect Transistors

Shu-Yin Zhu; Juan Peng

doi:10.1007/s10118-023-2916-4

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Meniscus-Assisted Solution Printing Enables Cocrystallization in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based Blends for Field-Effect Transistors

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- Meniscus-Assisted Solution Printing Enables Cocrystallization in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based Blends for Field-Effect Transistors
- Meniscus-Assisted Solution Printing Enables Cocrystallization in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based Blends for Field-Effect Transistors
- 高分子科学（英文版） 2023年41卷第8期页码：1269-1276
- Affiliations：
  
  State Key Laboratory of Molecular Engineering of Polymers, Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China
- Author bio：
  
  juanpeng@fudan.edu.cn
- Funds：
  
  This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21922503 and 22173023) and Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai (No. 21ZR1405800). We gratefully acknowledge the support from Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility of China for using the BL14B1 beamline.;Electronic supplementary information (ESI) is available free of charge in the online version of this article at http://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-023-2916-4.
- DOI：10.1007/s10118-023-2916-4
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- 收稿：2022-10-16，
  
  修回：2022-11-11，
  
  录用：2022-11-28，
  
  网络首发：2023-02-07，
  
  纸质出版：2023-08-01
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Zhu, S. Y.; Peng, J. Meniscus-assisted solution printing enables cocrystallization in poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based blends for field-effect transistors. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1269–1276

Shu-Yin Zhu, Juan Peng. Meniscus-Assisted Solution Printing Enables Cocrystallization in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based Blends for Field-Effect Transistors[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(8): 1269-1276.
Zhu, S. Y.; Peng, J. Meniscus-assisted solution printing enables cocrystallization in poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based blends for field-effect transistors. Chinese J. Polym. Sci. 2023, 41, 1269–1276 DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-2916-4.

Shu-Yin Zhu, Juan Peng. Meniscus-Assisted Solution Printing Enables Cocrystallization in Poly(3-alkylthiophene)-based Blends for Field-Effect Transistors[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2023, 41(8): 1269-1276. DOI： 10.1007/s10118-023-2916-4.

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Abstract

The formation of cocrystallization in two various conjugated components may endow the newly formed conjugated cocrystals with multiple functionalities and improved charge transport properties. However

compared to conjugated small molecules

this strategy is rather limitedly realized in conjugated polymers. Herein

a simple meniscus-assisted solution printing (MASP) strategy is utilized to achieve the cocrystallization in the blends of two conjugated polymers

i.e.

poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and poly(3-octylthiophene) (P3OT)

and the cocrystalline structures are correlated closely to their charge mobilities. The P3HT/P3OT blends phase separate and crystallize individually in their drop-cast thin films. When subjecting the P3HT/P3OT blended solution to MASP

the confined solvent evaporation between two nearly parallel plates triggers them to cocrystallize progressively when accelerating the moving lower plate. The cocrystallization kinetics and the changes in P3HT/P3OT molecular structures are elucidated. Finally

these different crystalline structures of P3HT/P3OT blends are applied in organic field-effect transistors

imparting the cocrystallization-enhanced charge transport than respective P3HT and P3OT crystal domains. Such MASP method can be extended to craft cocrystals of other conjugated polymer blends for their diverse optoelectronic applications.

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