Thiazole Imide-Based All-Acceptor Homopolymer with Branched Ethylene Glycol Side Chains for Organic ThermoelectricsShow others and affiliations
2022 (English)In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, ISSN 1433-7851, E-ISSN 1521-3773, Vol. 61, no 51, article id e202214192Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
n-Type semiconducting polymers with high thermoelectric performance remain challenging due to the scarcity of molecular design strategy, limiting their applications in organic thermoelectric (OTE) devices. Herein, we provide a new approach to enhance the OTE performance of n-doped polymers by introducing acceptor-acceptor (A-A) type backbone bearing branched ethylene glycol (EG) side chains. When doped with 4-(2,3-dihydro-1,3-dimethyl-1H-benzimidazol-2-yl)-N,N-dimethylbenzenamine (N-DMBI), the A-A homopolymer PDTzTI-TEG exhibits n-type electrical conductivity (sigma) up to 34 S cm(-1) and power factor value of 15.7 mu W m(-1) K-2. The OTE performance of PDTzTI-TEG is far greater than that of homopolymer PBTI-TEG (sigma=0.27 S cm(-1)), indicating that introducing electron-deficient thiazole units in the backbone further improves the n-doping efficiency. These results demonstrate that developing A-A type polymers with EG side chains is an effective strategy to enhance n-type OTE performance.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH , 2022. Vol. 61, no 51, article id e202214192
Keywords [en]
Conductivity; Doping; Ethylene Glycol; Homopolymers; Organic Thermoelectrics
National Category
Polymer Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-190484DOI: 10.1002/anie.202214192ISI: 000888494100001PubMedID: 36282628OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-190484DiVA, id: diva2:1718309
Note
Funding Agencies|National Natural Science Foundation of China [22105004, 52173171, 52173156]; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2232021G-12]; Swedish Research Council [2020-03243]; Olle Engkvists Stiftelse [204-0256]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoeping University [2009-00971]; NRF of Korea [2019R1A6A1A11044070, 2020M3H4A3081814]
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