Citation: A. Memon Mushtaque, Sun Jin-hua, Jung Hee-Tae, Yan Shou-ke, Geng Jian-xin. Fabrication of Polythiophene Patterns through Blending of a Thermally Curable Polythiophene with Poly(methyl methacrylate) and Selective Thermal Curation[J]. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, ;2017, 35(3): 422-433. doi: 10.1007/s10118-017-1895-8 shu

Fabrication of Polythiophene Patterns through Blending of a Thermally Curable Polythiophene with Poly(methyl methacrylate) and Selective Thermal Curation

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State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing 100029, China
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Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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National Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering(BK-21), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, Korea

Corresponding author: Jung Hee-Tae, heetae@kaist.ac.kr Yan Shou-ke, skyan@mail.buct.edu.cn Geng Jian-xin, jianxingeng@mail.ipc.ac.cn
Received Date: 20 September 2016
Revised Date: 11 October 2016
Accepted Date: 24 October 2016

Fund Project: the Center for Nanoscale Mechatronics & Manufacturing 08K140100414, CNMMthe National Research Laboratory Program of the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF), the World Class University Program R32-2008-000-10142-0the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21274158 and 91333114

In this study, we demonstrate a novel method for fabricating polythiophene patterns, i.e., cylindrical holes and cylinders, through blending of a thermally curable polythiophene carrying with tertiary ester groups (PT-tert-ESTER) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), followed by thermal conversion of the PT-tert-ESTER to an insoluble polythiophene via low-temperature cleavage of the tertiary ester groups and removal of the PMMA component via ultraviolet degradation. We show that the surface polarity of substrates, the mass ratio of PT-tert-ESTER to PMMA in the blend solutions as well as the concentration of the blend solutions strongly influence the formation of the polythiophene patterns. Cylindrical holes are more readily formed on less polar substrates when a PT-tert-ESTER dominated blend solution is used, while cylinders are more readily formed on more polar substrates when a PMMA dominated blend solution is used. Moreover, the diameters of both the cylindrical holes and the cylinders decrease as the PT-tert-ESTER concentration is increased in the respective ranges of the PT-tert-ESTER/PMMA ratios where the patterns are formed. Grazing incident X-ray diffraction data have indicated that the patterning of the PT-tert-ESTER component in the blend films improves the crystallinity of PT-tert-ESTER as well as the molecular packing of the insoluble polythiophene in the resultant patterned polythiophene films.
- Polythiophene,
- Patterns,
- Cylindrical holes,
- Cylinders,
- Blending
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