Liquid??Crystalline Perylene Diester Polymers with Tunable Charge??Carrier Mobility

…, M Carrasco??Orozco, M Thelakkat

Index: Muth, Mathis-Andreas; Carrasco-Orozco, Miguel; Thelakkat, Mukundan Advanced Functional Materials, 2011 , vol. 21, # 23 p. 4510 - 4518

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Abstract

Abstract New classes of liquid-crystalline semiconductor polymers based on perylene diester benzimidazole and perylene diester imide mesogens are reported. Two highly soluble side-chain polymers, poly (perylene diester benzimidazole acrylate)(PPDB) and poly (perylene diester imide acrylate)(PPDI) are synthesized by nitroxide-mediated radical polymerization (NMRP). PPDB shows n-type semiconductor performance with electron ...