N, P‑Codoped Carbon Film Derived from Phosphazenes and Its Printing Integration with a Polymer Carpet Via “Molecular Welding” for Flexible Electronics

• Published in: ACS applied materials & interfaces Vol. 13; no. 25; pp. 29894 - 29905
• Main Authors: Yang, Fan, Qiu, Munan, Miao, Zhenwei, Zhang, Teng, Zhang, Shuangkun, Wu, Zhanpeng
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: American Chemical Society 30.06.2021
• Subjects: Functional Nanostructured Materials (including low-D carbon); flexible electronics; molecular welding; heteroatoms doping; carbon based-film; phosphazene
• ISSN: 1944-8244; 1944-8252
• DOI: 10.1021/acsami.1c04010

Although high-performance graphene-based micro/nano flexible electronic devices have shown promising applications in numerous fields, there are still many problems in converting graphene into practical applications. Heteroatom-doped graphene materials are of huge importance because heteroatom doping can significantly change the electronic structure and introduce the active site, which benefits the integration with a promising substrate and achieves nondestructive transfer of carbon materials. Herein, we analyze in detail the pyrolysis gas composition of heteroatom-enriched phosphazenes with different structures and prepare a series of high-quality in situ N, P-codoped carbon-based films from phosphazene solid sources on a low-cost glass substrate by a convenient one-step method. The N, P-codoped carbon film shows reflectivity, good conductivity, and transparency. In addition, with the help of in situ “molecular welding”, we achieve nondestructive transfer of a conductive carbon-based film from a glass substrate to promising layer-polyimide (PI) and prepare a flexible free-standing carbon/PI hybrid film with an excellent binding interface. The flexible conductive hybrid film shows excellent durability under an extremely low temperature environment and superior bending stability after 800 bending cycles. The results suggest that a phosphazene precursor is an amazing choice for constructing high-quality heteroatom-doped conductive carbon films. Besides, this work provides a promising way for nondestructive transfer of the conductive carbon-based films and large-scale preparation of large-area patterned conductive thin films.