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High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency

n‐Doped polymers with high electrical conductivity (σ) are still very scarce in organic thermoelectrics (OTEs), which limits the development of efficient organic thermoelectric generators. A series of fused bithiophene imide dimer‐based polymers, PO8, PO12, and PO16, incorporating distinct oligo(eth...

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Autores principales: Feng, Kui, Wang, Junwei, Jeong, Sang Young, Yang, Wanli, Li, Jianfeng, Woo, Han Young, Guo, Xugang
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10582446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37553779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202302629
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author Feng, Kui
Wang, Junwei
Jeong, Sang Young
Yang, Wanli
Li, Jianfeng
Woo, Han Young
Guo, Xugang
author_facet Feng, Kui
Wang, Junwei
Jeong, Sang Young
Yang, Wanli
Li, Jianfeng
Woo, Han Young
Guo, Xugang
author_sort Feng, Kui
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description n‐Doped polymers with high electrical conductivity (σ) are still very scarce in organic thermoelectrics (OTEs), which limits the development of efficient organic thermoelectric generators. A series of fused bithiophene imide dimer‐based polymers, PO8, PO12, and PO16, incorporating distinct oligo(ethylene glycol) side‐chain to optimize σ is reported here. Three polymers show a monotonic electron mobility decrease as side‐chain size increasing due to the gradually lowered film crystallinity and change of backbone orientation. Interestingly, polymer PO12 with a moderate side‐chain size delivers a champion σ up to 92.0 S cm(−1) and a power factor (PF) as high as 94.3 µW m(−1) K(−2) in the series when applied in OTE devices. The PF value is among the highest ones for the solution‐processing n‐doped polymers. In‐depth morphology studies unravel that the moderate crystallinity and the formation of 3D conduction channel derived from bimodal orientation synergistically contribute to high doping efficiency and large charge carrier mobility, thus resulting in high performance for the PO12‐based OTEs. The results demonstrate the great power of simple tuning of side chain in developing n‐type polymers with substantial σ for improving organic thermoelectric performance.
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spelling pubmed-105824462023-10-19 High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency Feng, Kui Wang, Junwei Jeong, Sang Young Yang, Wanli Li, Jianfeng Woo, Han Young Guo, Xugang Adv Sci (Weinh) Research Articles n‐Doped polymers with high electrical conductivity (σ) are still very scarce in organic thermoelectrics (OTEs), which limits the development of efficient organic thermoelectric generators. A series of fused bithiophene imide dimer‐based polymers, PO8, PO12, and PO16, incorporating distinct oligo(ethylene glycol) side‐chain to optimize σ is reported here. Three polymers show a monotonic electron mobility decrease as side‐chain size increasing due to the gradually lowered film crystallinity and change of backbone orientation. Interestingly, polymer PO12 with a moderate side‐chain size delivers a champion σ up to 92.0 S cm(−1) and a power factor (PF) as high as 94.3 µW m(−1) K(−2) in the series when applied in OTE devices. The PF value is among the highest ones for the solution‐processing n‐doped polymers. In‐depth morphology studies unravel that the moderate crystallinity and the formation of 3D conduction channel derived from bimodal orientation synergistically contribute to high doping efficiency and large charge carrier mobility, thus resulting in high performance for the PO12‐based OTEs. The results demonstrate the great power of simple tuning of side chain in developing n‐type polymers with substantial σ for improving organic thermoelectric performance. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2023-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10582446/ /pubmed/37553779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202302629 Text en © 2023 The Authors. Advanced Science published by Wiley‐VCH GmbH https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Feng, Kui
Wang, Junwei
Jeong, Sang Young
Yang, Wanli
Li, Jianfeng
Woo, Han Young
Guo, Xugang
High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency
title High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency
title_full High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency
title_fullStr High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency
title_full_unstemmed High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency
title_short High‐Performance n‐Type Organic Thermoelectrics Enabled by Synergistically Achieving High Electron Mobility and Doping Efficiency
title_sort high‐performance n‐type organic thermoelectrics enabled by synergistically achieving high electron mobility and doping efficiency
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10582446/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37553779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202302629
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