Effect of Molecular Weight on Thermoelectric Performance of P3HT Analogues with 2-Propoxyethyl Side Chains

作     者：董得福 WANG Wei ZHAN Chun LI Chenglong ZHOU Qisheng 肖生强 DONG Defu;WANG Wei;ZHAN Chun;LI Chenglong;ZHOU Qisheng;XIAO Shengqiang

作者机构：State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and ProcessingWuhan University of TechnologyWuhan 430070China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Wuhan University of Technology(Materials Science)》 (武汉理工大学学报（材料科学英文版）)

年 卷 期：2024年第39卷第2期

页      面：268-281页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 080501[工学-材料物理与化学] 0805[工学-材料科学与工程（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Funded by the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing Wuhan Univesity of Technology 

主　　题：conjugated polymer molecular weight microstructure thermoelectric performance 

摘      要：By replacing hexyl chains in poly(3-hexylthiophene)(P3HT)with 2-propoxyethyls,four poly(3-(2-propoxyethyl)thiophene)(P3POET)homopolymers with comparable polydispersity indexes(PDI)and regioregularities were prepared herein in addition with step increment of about 7 kDa on numberaverage molecular weight(M_(n))from around 11 to 32 kDa(accordingly denoted as P11k,P18k,P25k,and P32k).When doped in film by FeCl_(3)at the optimized conditions,the maximum power factor(PF_(max))increases greatly from 4.3μW·m^(-1)·K^(-2)for P11k to 8.8μW·m^(-1)·K^(-2)for P18k,and further to 9.7μW·m^(-1)·K^(-2)for P25k,followed by a slight decrease to 9.2μW·m^(-1)·K^(-2)for *** close Seebeck coefficients(S)at PF_(max)are observed in these doped polymer films due to their consistent frontier orbital energy levels and Fermi *** main contribution to this PF_(max)evolution thus comes from the corresponding conductivities(σ).Theσvariation of the doped films can be rationally correlated with their microstructure evolution.