Sequencing conjugated polymers by eye

Warr, Daniel A, Perdigao, Luis MA, Pinfold, Harry, Blohm, Jonathan, Stringer, David, Leventis, Anastasia, Bronstein, Hugo, Troisi, Alessandro ORCID: 0000-0002-5447-5648 and Costantini, Giovanni (2018) Sequencing conjugated polymers by eye. SCIENCE ADVANCES, 4 (6). eaas9543-.

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Abstract

The solid-state microstructure of a conjugated polymer is the most important parameter determining its properties and performance in (opto)-electronic devices. A huge amount of research has been dedicated to tuning and understanding how the sequence of monomers, the nature and frequency of defects, the exact backbone conformation, and the assembly and crystallinity of conjugated polymers affect their basic photophysics and charge transporting properties. However, because of the lack of reliable high-resolution analytical techniques, all the structure-property relations proposed in the literature are based either on molecular modeling or on indirect experimental data averaged on polydisperse samples. We show that a combination of electrospray vacuum deposition and high-resolution scanning tunneling microscopy allows the imaging of individual conjugated polymers with unprecedented detail, thereby unraveling structural and self-assembly characteristics that have so far been impossible to determine.

Item Type:	Article
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	26 Sep 2018 10:25
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 01:16
DOI:	10.1126/sciadv.aas9543
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3026766