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ArticleNature communications2022

Integrating charge mobility, stability and stretchability within conjugated polymer films for stretchable multifunctional sensors.

Sung Yun Son, Giwon Lee, Hongyu Wang, Stephanie Samson, Qingshan Wei, Yong Zhu, Wei You

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
5.2field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  11. Control of Properties through Hydrogen Bonding Interactions in Conjugated Polymers.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2024
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sung Yun Son *Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1563-5474
Giwon Lee *Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6832-658X
Hongyu WangDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6543-653X
Stephanie SamsonDepartment of Applied Physical Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4582-5431
Qingshan WeiDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA. qwei3@ncsu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1214-010X
Yong ZhuDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA. yzhu7@ncsu.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3862-5757
Wei YouDepartment of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, USA. wyou@unc.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0354-1948
North Carolina State University · USUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill · US

Funding

National Science Foundation (NSF) CBET-1639429North Carolina State University (NC State University) GRIP4PSIUnited States Department of Defense | United States Navy | Office of Naval Research (ONR) N00014-20-1-2181
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conjugated polymers (CPs) are promising semiconductors for intrinsically stretchable electronic devices. Ideally, such CPs should exhibit high charge mobility, excellent stability, and high stretchability. However, converging all these desirable properties in CPs has not been achieved via molecular design and/or device engineering. This work details the design, synthesis and characterization of a random polythiophene (RP-T50) containing ~50 mol% of thiophene units with a thermocleavable tertiary ester side chain and ~50 mol% of unsubstituted thiophene units, which, upon thermocleavage of alkyl chains, shows significant improvement of charge mobility and stability. Thermal annealing a RP-T50 film coated on a stretchable polydimethylsiloxane substrate spontaneously generates wrinkling in the polymer film, which effectively enhances the stretchability of the polymer film. The wrinkled RP-T50-based stretchable sensors can effectively detect humidity, ethanol, temperature and light even under 50% uniaxial and 30% biaxial strains. Our discoveries offer new design rationale of strategically applying CPs to intrinsically stretchable electronic systems.

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PMID35585062
PMCPMC9117230
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