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Type: 
Journal
Description: 
High-mobility semiconducting polymers offer the opportunity to develop flexible and large-area electronics for several applications, including wearable, portable and distributed sensors, monitoring and actuating devices. An enabler of this technology is a scalable printing process achieving uniform electrical performances over large area. As opposed to the deposition of highly crystalline films, orientational alignment of polymer chains, albeit commonly achieved by non-scalable/slow bulk alignment schemes, is a more robust approach towards large-area electronics. By combining pre-aggregating solvents for formulating the semiconductor and by adopting a room temperature wired bar-coating technique, here we demonstrate the fast deposition of submonolayers and nanostructured films of a model electron-transporting polymer. Our approach enables directional self-assembling of polymer chains exhibiting large …
Publisher: 
Nature Publishing Group
Publication date: 
25 Sep 2015
Authors: 

Sadir G Bucella, Alessandro Luzio, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, Christopher R McNeill, Giuseppina Pace, Andrea Perinot, Zhihua Chen, Antonio Facchetti, Mario Caironi

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Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-10
Origin: 
Nature communications