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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · Organic Materials 2022; 4(04): 268-276
DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1757979
Organic Materials in India
Original Article

Cyclopenta[c]thiophene- and Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Red-Green-Blue Electrochromic Polymers

Autoren

  • Sashi Debnath

    a   Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741246, India
  • Ganesh Masilamani

    b   Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India
  • Abhijeet Agrawal

    a   Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741246, India
  • Neha Rani Kumar

    a   Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741246, India
  • Chandan Kumar

    a   Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741246, India
  • Sanjio S. Zade

    a   Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Mohanpur, West Bengal, 741246, India
  • Anjan Bedi

    b   Department of Chemistry, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, 603203, India


Graphical Abstract

Abstract

Cyclopenta[c]thiophene (CPT)-based polymers are potential candidates in organic electronics. Here, we report the first solution-processable red homopolymer (P1) of a thiophene-capped derivative of CPT (DHTCPT), and a blue homopolymer (P2) of N-substituted thienodiketopyrrolopyrrole (DEHTDPP). Additionally, by alternatingly copolymerizing the DHTCPT and DEHTDPP units, we achieved the green copolymer P3, thus completing the red-green-blue color wheels. We have shown experimentally and computationally (time-dependent density functional theory and natural bond orbital calculations) that P1 and P2 have very different optoelectronic features. However, in a donor–acceptor (D–A) copolymer P3, the optoelectronic properties have been tuned significantly to keep it in an intermediate range of P1 and P2. P2 and P3 absorb throughout the whole UV-vis range of the solar spectrum. Furthermore, all polymers showed electrochromism to switch colors between neutral and polaronic states in solution. For P1, the maximum optical contrast (%ΔT) was observed for the SOMO→LUMO transition, whereas P3 displayed the maximum %ΔT at the HOMO→LUMO transition.



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Eingereicht: 03. September 2022

Angenommen: 09. November 2022

Artikel online veröffentlicht:
13. Dezember 2022

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