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A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers

Despite the poor solubility in organic solvents, poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) is one of the most successful conducting polymers. To improve PEDOT conductivity, the dopants commonly used are molecules/polymers carrying sulfonic functionalities. In addition to these species, sulfonated po...

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Autores principales: Sabatini, Valentina, Pifferi, Valentina, Checchia, Stefano, Rebeccani, Sara, Farina, Hermes, Aldo Ortenzi, Marco, Falciola, Luigi
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6403848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30960695
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10070770
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author Sabatini, Valentina
Pifferi, Valentina
Checchia, Stefano
Rebeccani, Sara
Farina, Hermes
Aldo Ortenzi, Marco
Falciola, Luigi
author_facet Sabatini, Valentina
Pifferi, Valentina
Checchia, Stefano
Rebeccani, Sara
Farina, Hermes
Aldo Ortenzi, Marco
Falciola, Luigi
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description Despite the poor solubility in organic solvents, poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) is one of the most successful conducting polymers. To improve PEDOT conductivity, the dopants commonly used are molecules/polymers carrying sulfonic functionalities. In addition to these species, sulfonated polyarylethersulfone (SPAES), obtained via homogeneous synthesis with different degrees of sulfonation (DS), can be used thanks to both the tight control over the DS and the charge separation present in SPAES structure. Here, PEDOTs having enhanced solubility in the chosen reaction solvents (N,N-dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone) were synthesized via a high-concentration solvent-based emulsion polymerization with very low amounts of SPAES as dopant (1% w/w with respect to EDOT monomer), characterized by different DS. The influence of solvents and of the adopted doping agent was studied on PEDOT_SPAESs analyzing (i) the chemical structure, comparing via X-ray diffraction (XRD) the crystalline structures of undoped and commercial PEDOTs with PEDOT_SPAES’ amorphous structure; (ii) solvatochromic behavior, observing UV absorption wavelength variation as solvents and SPAES’ DS change; and (iii) electrochemical properties: voltammetric peak heights of PEDOT_SPAES cast onto glassy carbon electrodes differ for each solvent and in general are better than the ones obtained for neat SPAES, PEDOTs, and glassy carbon.
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spelling pubmed-64038482019-04-02 A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers Sabatini, Valentina Pifferi, Valentina Checchia, Stefano Rebeccani, Sara Farina, Hermes Aldo Ortenzi, Marco Falciola, Luigi Polymers (Basel) Article Despite the poor solubility in organic solvents, poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) is one of the most successful conducting polymers. To improve PEDOT conductivity, the dopants commonly used are molecules/polymers carrying sulfonic functionalities. In addition to these species, sulfonated polyarylethersulfone (SPAES), obtained via homogeneous synthesis with different degrees of sulfonation (DS), can be used thanks to both the tight control over the DS and the charge separation present in SPAES structure. Here, PEDOTs having enhanced solubility in the chosen reaction solvents (N,N-dimethylformamide, dimethylacetamide, dimethyl sulfoxide, and N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone) were synthesized via a high-concentration solvent-based emulsion polymerization with very low amounts of SPAES as dopant (1% w/w with respect to EDOT monomer), characterized by different DS. The influence of solvents and of the adopted doping agent was studied on PEDOT_SPAESs analyzing (i) the chemical structure, comparing via X-ray diffraction (XRD) the crystalline structures of undoped and commercial PEDOTs with PEDOT_SPAES’ amorphous structure; (ii) solvatochromic behavior, observing UV absorption wavelength variation as solvents and SPAES’ DS change; and (iii) electrochemical properties: voltammetric peak heights of PEDOT_SPAES cast onto glassy carbon electrodes differ for each solvent and in general are better than the ones obtained for neat SPAES, PEDOTs, and glassy carbon. MDPI 2018-07-13 /pmc/articles/PMC6403848/ /pubmed/30960695 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10070770 Text en © 2018 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Sabatini, Valentina
Pifferi, Valentina
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Rebeccani, Sara
Farina, Hermes
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Falciola, Luigi
A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers
title A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers
title_full A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers
title_fullStr A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers
title_full_unstemmed A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers
title_short A Combined XRD, Solvatochromic, and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Poly (3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene) Doped with Sulfonated Polyarylethersulfones: Towards New Conducting Polymers
title_sort combined xrd, solvatochromic, and cyclic voltammetric study of poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with sulfonated polyarylethersulfones: towards new conducting polymers
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6403848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30960695
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym10070770
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