Controlled radical polymerizations as versatile synthetic routes for conjugated rod-coil block copolymers and their use as active polymer semiconducting materials in flexible organic electronic devices and systems

摘要

Controlled Radical Polymerization (CRP) such as Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization (ATRP) or Nitroxide Mediated Radical Polymerization (NMRP), can be used to obtain various well defined rod-coil conjugated diblock or triblock copolymers having well controlled opto-electronic properties. These copolymers are soluble in common organic solvents and can be self-organized giving rise at various nm length scale and thermodynamically stable structures. They show promising opto-electronic properties and fulfil the basic morphological requirements towards the fabrication of efficient flexible organic electronic devices.