Polyethylene glycol-decorated n-type conducting polymers with improved ion accessibility for high-performance organic electrochemical transistors Show others and affiliations
2024 (English) In: Materials Horizons, ISSN 2051-6347, E-ISSN 2051-6355, Vol. 11, no 21, p. 5419-5428Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
High-performance n-type organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs) are essential for advancing complementary circuits based on organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs). Despite significant progress, current n-type OMIECs often exhibit lower transconductance and slower response times compared to their p-type counterparts, limiting the development of OECT-based complementary circuits. Optimizing the conjugated backbone and side chain structures of OMIECs is critical for enhancing both ion and electron transport efficiencies while maintaining a delicate balance between the two. In this study, hydrophilic polyethylene glycol (PEG) side chains were incorporated into the highly conductive n-type polymer poly(3,7-dihydrobenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b ']difuran-2,6-dione) (PBFDO) backbone to achieve this goal. The incorporation of PEG chains improved ion accessibility, and by adjusting the PEG content, the electronic and ionic transport properties were fine-tuned, ultimately enhancing the performance of OECTs and related p-n complementary circuits. The n-type OECTs based on PBFDO-PEG50wt% demonstrated exceptional transfer characteristics, including a transient response time (tau(ON)) as low as 72 mu s, a high geometry-normalized transconductance exceeding 400 S cm(-1), and an impressive mu C* value surpassing 720 F cm(-1) V-1 s(-1). Notably, the use of PBFDO-PEG50wt% in a complementary inverter resulted in a voltage gain of 20 V/V, more than five times higher than that achieved with unmodified PBFDO (<4 V/V). These findings highlight the importance of balancing electron and ion transport characteristics in OMIECs to achieve high performance in OECTs and their associated circuits, and they validate PEG decoration as an effective approach.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY , 2024. Vol. 11, no 21, p. 5419-5428
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Theoretical Chemistry
Identifiers URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-207463 DOI: 10.1039/d4mh00979g ISI: 001298912600001 PubMedID: 39188189 OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-207463 DiVA, id: diva2:1896463
Note Funding Agencies|Basic and Applied Basic Research Major Program of Guangdong Province [2019B030302007]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [U21A6002]; National Youth Foundation of China [52303227]; Self-supporting project of Pazhou Lab [PZL2023ZZ0011]; Swedish Research Council [2020-03243, 2022-04053, 2022-04553]; Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation [2021.0058, 2022.0034, 2023.0464]; Swedish Government Strategic Research Area in Materials Science on Functional Materials at Linkoping University [SFO-Mat-LiU 2009-00971]
2024-09-102024-09-102025-04-19 Bibliographically approved