Polymers and Polymer Composites

TUNING THE EMISSION COLOR OF CONJUGATED POLYMERS VIA OXIDATION COPOLYMERIZATION OF FLUORENE AND 3,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE

January 1, 2012 By: Mi Ouyang; Wen-qin Xiang; Yi Xu; Yu-jian Zhang; Qian-ping Lou; Cheng Zhang Research article

Title: TUNING THE EMISSION COLOR OF CONJUGATED POLYMERS VIA OXIDATION COPOLYMERIZATION OF FLUORENE AND 3,4-ETHYLENEDIOXYTHIOPHENE
Page Range: p.21-26
Author(s): Mi Ouyang; Wen-qin Xiang; Yi Xu; Yu-jian Zhang; Qian-ping Lou; Cheng Zhang
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Journal: Polymers and Polymer Composites
Issue Year: ppc
Volume: 20
Issue No: No.1-2

Abstract
In this paper, 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT)units are introduced to polyfluorene via chemical oxidation polymerisation. FTIR and 1H NMR spectra results confirm that the products are copolymers. Elemental analysis results show that the EDOT content in obtained copolymers increases as the feed ratio of EDOT/fluorene increases. UV-vis and PL spectra results show that the wavelengths of absorption peaks and emission peaks present obviously red-shift with the increase of EDOT content (Figure 2). In addition, the emission colours of resulting copolymers could be tailored between blue and green via changing the feed ratio of 9,9′-dibutylfluorene (DBF)/EDOT. 30 Refs.


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