Issue 45, 2022

Well-defined electrochemical switching of amphiphilic glycolated poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

Abstract

The approach of using polyether, aka glycol, side chains to afford amphiphilicity to conducting polymers has recently emerged as a powerful technique for next-generation materials for bioelectronics and electrochemical devices. Herein we apply this synthetic logic to the archetypical conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), PEDOT, to generate a glycolated PEDOT analogue, G-PEDOT. We report on the electropolymerization of this material, and its electrochemical properties: including spectroelectrochemistry, electrochemical capacitance, and operation of microelectrodes and electrochemical transistors. While in many respects performing like PEDOT, G-PEDOT has electrochemical switching within lower potentials with complete de-doping at lower potentials, affording transistors with higher on/off ratios than PEDOT, and electrochromic switching within a smaller electrochemical window. Overall, G-PEDOT emerges as a useful, functional alternative to other PEDOT derivatives, and could be a building block in copolymers.

Graphical abstract: Well-defined electrochemical switching of amphiphilic glycolated poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
08 Apr. 2022
Accepted
20 Sept. 2022
First published
09 Nov. 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022,10, 17208-17215

Well-defined electrochemical switching of amphiphilic glycolated poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

R. Rybakiewicz-Sekita, M. Gryszel, G. Pathak, R. Gańczarczyk, M. J. Donahue and E. D. Głowacki, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022, 10, 17208 DOI: 10.1039/D2TC01448C

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