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MACROMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 209, Issue 17, Pages 1806-1813Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/macp.200800167
Keywords
liquid crystals; orientation; oligomers; phase transitions; thin films
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [20423003, 20774097]
- NSFC Fund for Creative Research Groups [50621302]
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A novel conjugated oligomer, oligo(9,9'-dioctylfluorene-alt-bithiophene) (OF8T2), was found to exhibit a unique phase transition between crystalline and liquid-crystalline states, and a liquid-crystalline glass was easily generated, offering better TFT device performance. In thin films, upon annealing the OF8T2 molecules oriented preferentially with their planes of conjugation being normal to the substrate, and both film thickness and annealing temperature were critical to the film morphology and the molecular orientation. When the OF8T2 film was deposited on a rubbed polyimide surface and annealed, the molecules aligned their long axes along the rubbing direction.
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