TY - JOUR
T1 - Continuous Melt-Drawing of Highly Aligned Flexible and Stretchable Semiconducting Microfibers for Organic Electronics
AU - Zhao, Yan
AU - Gumyusenge, Aristide
AU - He, Jiazhi
AU - Qu, Ge
AU - McNutt, William W.
AU - Long, Yuan
AU - Zhang, Hongyi
AU - Huang, Libai
AU - Diao, Ying
AU - Mei, Jianguo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinhei/1.
PY - 2018/1/24
Y1 - 2018/1/24
N2 - A scalable and green approach to manufacture semiconducting microfibers from polymer melts has been demonstrated. The polymer chains are highly aligned along the microfiber's long axis direction and exhibit highly anisotropic optical properties. In addition, the polymer microfibers show good flexibility and stretchability with a yield point around 10% under a reversible stress and can be stretched up to 180% without breaking. These features are desired for future flexible, stretchable, and conformable electronics. The origin of this stretchability is studied with diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives using different conjugation break spacers and side chains. In addition, stretchable conducting microfibers can be obtained by doping with FeCl3, which are further evaluated as organic conductors and source/drain electrodes in organic field-effect transistors.
AB - A scalable and green approach to manufacture semiconducting microfibers from polymer melts has been demonstrated. The polymer chains are highly aligned along the microfiber's long axis direction and exhibit highly anisotropic optical properties. In addition, the polymer microfibers show good flexibility and stretchability with a yield point around 10% under a reversible stress and can be stretched up to 180% without breaking. These features are desired for future flexible, stretchable, and conformable electronics. The origin of this stretchability is studied with diketopyrrolopyrrole derivatives using different conjugation break spacers and side chains. In addition, stretchable conducting microfibers can be obtained by doping with FeCl3, which are further evaluated as organic conductors and source/drain electrodes in organic field-effect transistors.
KW - melt drawing
KW - organic electronics
KW - polymer microfibers
KW - semiconducting polymers
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U2 - 10.1002/adfm.201705584
DO - 10.1002/adfm.201705584
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85035025718
SN - 1616-301X
VL - 28
JO - Advanced Functional Materials
JF - Advanced Functional Materials
IS - 4
M1 - 1705584
ER -