Molecular self-assembly is an important process that plays a pivotal role in the rate of advancement for modern semiconductors. Self-assembly can provide a route to well-organized structures with high molecular level precision and minimal structural defects such as grain boundaries that have been proven detrimental to organic electronic applications. Controlling the supramolecular self-assembly via molecular composition and functionality offers a unique strategy to provide targeted functional patterns in a reproducibly controlled fashion. One of the most common techniques employs the use of block copolymers that can undergo self-assembly and thus offer control over nanoscale morphologies that are instrumental in the charge separation, recombination and transfer processes in electronic applications. Utilizing this concept, Block copolymers consisting of various fluorinated segments linked to rr-P3HtTs will be discussed in terms of their structure-property relationships with distinct focus on its influence on self-assembly and electronic properties of rr-P3HTs.

Self-assembly of rr-P3HT-fluoropolymer rod-coil block copolymers: Synthesis and charge transport characteristics

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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