Tunable charge transport using supramolecular self-assembly of nanostructured crystalline block copolymers

ACS Nano

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 3506-3515

  Huettner, Sven ^a,b   Sommer, Michael ^b   Hodgkiss, Justin ^a,d   Kohn, Peter ^a   Thurn Albrecht, Thomas ^c   Friend, Richard H ^a   Steiner, Ullrich ^a   Thelakkat, Mukundan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^c MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^d VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ambipolar; Charge transport; Conjugated polymer; Donor acceptor block copolymer; OFET; Self assembly

Indexed keywords

AMBIPOLAR; BLOCK RATIO; COMPOSITION RANGES; DONOR - ACCEPTOR BLOCK COPOLYMER; DONOR-ACCEPTORS; FUNCTIONALIZED; MAIN CHAIN POLYMERS; MICRO-DOMAINS; NANO-STRUCTURED; NANOSCALE REGIME; P-TYPE; PROCESSING CONDITION; SELF-ASSEMBLE; SUPRAMOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLIES; SWITCHING BEHAVIORS; THERMAL-ANNEALING; TIME-RESOLVED SPECTROSCOPY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL LATTICES;

BLOCK COPOLYMERS; CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; LASER SPECTROSCOPY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; ORGANIC FIELD EFFECT TRANSISTORS; PHASE SEPARATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; SOLVENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

COPOLYMERIZATION;

NANOMATERIAL; POLYMER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CONFORMATION; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MACROMOLECULE; MATERIALS TESTING; PARTICLE SIZE; SEMICONDUCTOR; SURFACE PROPERTY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NANOSTRUCTURES; PARTICLE SIZE; POLYMERS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TRANSISTORS, ELECTRONIC;

EID: 80051511221     PISSN: 19360851     EISSN: 1936086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/nn200647d     Document Type: Article

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