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Donor-acceptor (D-A) conjugated polymers comprising electron-deficient aromatic dicarboximide units represent an important type of organic semiconductors, especially for electron transporting properties. Pyrene-1,5,6,10-tetracarboxyl diimide (PyDI), a new PAH dicarboximide molecule recently reported by us, provides a fine balance between the electron-stabilizing ability and π-stacking tendency, as compared to the naphthalenediimide (NDI) and perylenediimide (PDI) analogues. In this study, using thienylene-vinylene-thienylene (TVT) and biselenophene (BS) as the electron donating comonomer, along with PyDI as the acceptor moiety, we develop two new D-A type conjugated polymers, which exhibit impressive electron-transporting performance. Specifically, in the solution-processed OFET devices, electron mobility of 0.18 and 0.20 cm2·V−1·s−1 are achieved with these polymers, respectively. Such findings further prove the optimal potential of PyDI for application as an electron-acceptor building block in the development of polymeric n-type semiconductors among all various high-performance functional D-A polymers.
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This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21925501, 22175004 and 22020102001) and the Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (No. BNLMS-CXXM-201902). Part of the characterization measurements were performed at the Analytical Instrumentation Center of Peking University, and the computational resources were supplied by the High-performance Computing Platform of Peking University.
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Bai, XD., Yu, ZD., Li, Y. et al. n-Type Semiconductive Polymers Based on Pyrene-1,5,6,10-Tetracarboxyl Diimide. Chin J Polym Sci 41, 1584–1590 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-023-3026-z
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