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Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Vol.28, No.17, 1816-1824, 2007
Conducting block copolymers of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) and poly(methacrylates): Electronic materials with variable conductivities and degrees of interfibrillar order
Integration of regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) in diblock copolymers with various poly (methacrylates) yielded electronic materials with variable conductivities and different types of nanoscale order. Solid state analysis of poly(3-hexylthiophene)-block-poly(methyl methacrylate) and poly(3 -hexylthiophene)-block-poly(t-butyl methacrylate) diblock copolymers revealed the presence of densely packed, locally parallel nanofibrils. By contrast, poly hexylthiophene)-block-poly(isobornyl methacrylate) copolymers containing bulkier isobornyl functional groups exhibited nanofibrillar morphology with isolated fibrils and no interfibrillar order.
Keywords:atomic force microscopy (AFM);block copolymers;conjugated polymers;Grignard metathesis polymerization (GRIM);regioregular polythiophenes