Journal article

Semiperfluoroalkyl polyfluorenes for orthogonal processing in fluorous solvents

JK Lee, HH Fong, AA Zakhidov, GE McCluskey, PG Taylor, MKE Santiago-Berrios, HD Abruña, AB Holmes, GG Malharas, CK Ober

Macromolecules | AMER CHEMICAL SOC | Published : 2010

Abstract

The challenging synthesis of semiperfluoroalkyl polyfluorenes and characterization of their electro-optical properties has been reported. Solutions of conjugated polymers can be dispensed onto the desired area by inkjet printing or screen printing, or form films on regions where a sacrificial photoresist material defines the target. Optical properties of the polyfluorenes, including absorption maxima of the UV vis spectra and photoluminescence are summarized. The EL characteristics areinestigated in a device structure of ITO PEDOT:PSS light-emitting polymer CsF Al. Their optical and EL properties were evaluated, exhibiting distinctive characteristics from their nonfluorinated analogues. Good..

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank Australian Research Council (LX0669165)/National Science Foundation (Materials World Network DMR-0602821) and CSIRO Australia for their generous support. We also thank Dr. Klaus Kahle for his advice on the materials synthesis and Dr. Scott E. Watkins (CSIRO) for his interest in this work. This work was performed in part at the Cornell NanoScale Facility. We are grateful to Mr. Eisuke Murotani, Dr. Yoshitomi Morizawa and Asathi Glass Company for GPC measurement in fluorous solvents.