Conjugated hybrid films based on a new polyoxotitanate monomer

Gang Liu; Xing Yang; Antoine Bonnefont; Yaokang Lv; Jun Chen; Wenyan Dan; Zuofeng Chen; Laurent Ruhlmann; Dominic S Wright; Cheng Zhang

doi:10.1039/c8cc07527a

Conjugated hybrid films based on a new polyoxotitanate monomer

Chem Commun (Camb). 2018 Dec 13;54(100):14132-14135. doi: 10.1039/c8cc07527a.

Authors

Gang Liu¹, Xing Yang, Antoine Bonnefont, Yaokang Lv, Jun Chen, Wenyan Dan, Zuofeng Chen, Laurent Ruhlmann, Dominic S Wright, Cheng Zhang

Affiliation

¹ College of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, 310014, China. czhang@zjut.edu.cn yaokanglv@zjut.edu.cn.

PMID: 30499991
DOI: 10.1039/c8cc07527a

Abstract

Electropolymerisation of the novel polyoxotitanate (POT) hexamer [Ti(μ3-O)(OiPr)(TA)]6 (TA = thiophene-3-acetate) with 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene (EDOT) gives films of hybrid conjugated copolymer, Poly-(EDOT-POT)s, the morphologies of which are, uniquely, influenced by the electropolymerisation potential. Nanoporous Poly-(EDOT-POT)-1 is a fast-ion electrode material and has improved electrochromic properties and significantly higher capacitance than that of the parent poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT).