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Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant

Increasing the doping level of semiconducting polymer using strong dopants is essential for achieving good electrical conductivity. As for p‐dopant, raising the electron affinity of a neutral compound through the dense introduction of electron‐withdrawing group has always been the predominant strate...

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Autores principales: Kurosawa, Tadanori, Okamoto, Toshihiro, Yamashita, Yu, Kumagai, Shohei, Watanabe, Shun, Takeya, Jun
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Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8693046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34713616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202101998
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author Kurosawa, Tadanori
Okamoto, Toshihiro
Yamashita, Yu
Kumagai, Shohei
Watanabe, Shun
Takeya, Jun
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Okamoto, Toshihiro
Yamashita, Yu
Kumagai, Shohei
Watanabe, Shun
Takeya, Jun
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description Increasing the doping level of semiconducting polymer using strong dopants is essential for achieving good electrical conductivity. As for p‐dopant, raising the electron affinity of a neutral compound through the dense introduction of electron‐withdrawing group has always been the predominant strategy to achieve strong dopant. However, this simple and intuitive strategy faces extendibility, accessibility, and stability issues for further development. Herein, the use of dicationic state of tetraaryl benzidine (TAB(2+)) in conjunction with bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide anion (TFSI(−)) as a strong and atmospherically stable p‐dopant (TAB–2TFSI), for which the concept is hinted from a rapid and spontaneous dimerization of radical cation dopant, is demonstrated. TAB–2TFSI possesses a large redox potential such that it would have deteriorated when in contact with H(2)O. However, no trace of degradation after 1 year of storage under atmospheric conditions is observed. When doping the state‐of‐the‐art semiconducting polymer with TAB–2TFSI, a high doping level together with significantly enhanced crystallinity is achieved which led to an electrical conductivity as high as 656 S cm(−1). The concept of utilizing charged molecule as a dopant is highly versatile and will potentially accelerate the development of a strong yet stable dopant.
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spelling pubmed-86930462022-01-03 Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant Kurosawa, Tadanori Okamoto, Toshihiro Yamashita, Yu Kumagai, Shohei Watanabe, Shun Takeya, Jun Adv Sci (Weinh) Research Articles Increasing the doping level of semiconducting polymer using strong dopants is essential for achieving good electrical conductivity. As for p‐dopant, raising the electron affinity of a neutral compound through the dense introduction of electron‐withdrawing group has always been the predominant strategy to achieve strong dopant. However, this simple and intuitive strategy faces extendibility, accessibility, and stability issues for further development. Herein, the use of dicationic state of tetraaryl benzidine (TAB(2+)) in conjunction with bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide anion (TFSI(−)) as a strong and atmospherically stable p‐dopant (TAB–2TFSI), for which the concept is hinted from a rapid and spontaneous dimerization of radical cation dopant, is demonstrated. TAB–2TFSI possesses a large redox potential such that it would have deteriorated when in contact with H(2)O. However, no trace of degradation after 1 year of storage under atmospheric conditions is observed. When doping the state‐of‐the‐art semiconducting polymer with TAB–2TFSI, a high doping level together with significantly enhanced crystallinity is achieved which led to an electrical conductivity as high as 656 S cm(−1). The concept of utilizing charged molecule as a dopant is highly versatile and will potentially accelerate the development of a strong yet stable dopant. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8693046/ /pubmed/34713616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202101998 Text en © 2021 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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Kurosawa, Tadanori
Okamoto, Toshihiro
Yamashita, Yu
Kumagai, Shohei
Watanabe, Shun
Takeya, Jun
Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant
title Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant
title_full Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant
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title_full_unstemmed Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant
title_short Strong and Atmospherically Stable Dicationic Oxidative Dopant
title_sort strong and atmospherically stable dicationic oxidative dopant
topic Research Articles
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8693046/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34713616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/advs.202101998
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