Highly crystalline electrically conducting polymers, methods of manufacture thereof and articles comprising the same

• Main Authors: GOMEZ, ENRIQUE DANIEL, BALANTRAPU, KRISHNA, SUTTER, THOMAS CHARLES, LAGODKINE, ELISSEI, LEE, SEUNG-HYUN, ATHENS, GEORGE LYLES, VAKHSHOURI, KIARASH
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 16.06.2014
• Subjects: AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CABLES; CHEMISTRY; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; COMPOSITIONS OF MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; CONDUCTORS; ELECTRICITY; GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING; INSULATORS; MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS OBTAINED OTHERWISE THAN BY REACTIONSONLY INVOLVING UNSATURATED CARBON-TO-CARBON BONDS; METALLURGY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; SELECTION OF MATERIALS FOR THEIR CONDUCTIVE, INSULATING ORDIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; WORKING-UP

Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a regioregular polyalkylthiophene and/or a regioregular poly[2, 5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno(3, 2-b)thiophene]; where the composition is melted and then cooled to a temperature between a melting point and a glass transition temperature of the composition; the composition having an amount of crystallinity that is at least twice the amount of crystallinity of another identical composition that is crystallized by a method that does not involve melting and cooling to a temperature between the melting point and the glass transition temperature of the identical composition.