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  • Title: High hole mobility for a side-chain liquid-crystalline smectic polysiloxane exhibiting a nanosegregated structure with a terthiophene moiety.
    Author: Matsui A, Funahashi M, Tsuji T, Kato T.
    Journal: Chemistry; 2010 Dec 03; 16(45):13465-72. PubMed ID: 21031362.
    Abstract:
    Side-chain liquid-crystalline siloxane polymers bearing terthiophene moieties as mesogenic pendant groups have been synthesized. An alkenylterthiophene derivative was treated with poly(hydrogenmethylsiloxane) and poly(dimethylsiloxane-co-hydrogenmethylsiloxane)s in Me(2)SiO/MeHSiO ratios of 1:1 and 7:3, respectively, in the presence of the Karstedt catalyst, to produce pale yellow polymers. The degrees of introduction of the mesogenic unit were 100, 50, and 30%, respectively. The polymers exhibit ordered smectic phases at room temperature. The copolymers with dimethylsiloxane units form smectic phases as a consequence of nanosegregation between the mesogenic units and siloxane backbones with the alkylene spacers. Time-of-flight measurement reveals that the hole mobility exceeds 1×10(-2) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) in the ordered smectic phase of the copolymer with a degree introduction of the mesogenic units of 50%. This value is comparable to that of the highly ordered mesophases of low-molecular-weight derivatives of phenylnaphthalene and terthiophene. Because of the segregation behavior induced by the flexible backbone, a closer molecular packing structure favorable for fast carrier transport may be formed in the smectic phase of the copolymer in spite of the low density of the mesogenic groups.
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