Horizontal and Vertical Orientation of Polythiophenes by Electrochemical Polymerization in Magnetically Aligned Smectic Liquid Crystal

Kohsuke Kawabata; Shigeki Nimori; Hiromasa Goto

doi:10.1021/mz400213k

Horizontal and Vertical Orientation of Polythiophenes by Electrochemical Polymerization in Magnetically Aligned Smectic Liquid Crystal

ACS Macro Lett. 2013 Jul 16;2(7):587-591. doi: 10.1021/mz400213k. Epub 2013 Jun 12.

Authors

Kohsuke Kawabata¹, Shigeki Nimori², Hiromasa Goto¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Materials Science, Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan.
² Tsukuba Magnet Laboratory, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0003, Japan.

PMID: 35581786
DOI: 10.1021/mz400213k

Abstract

Macroscopically highly oriented polythiophene derivative films are synthesized by electrochemical polymerization in a smectic liquid crystal reaction medium. Control of orientation direction of conjugated main chains is performed by use of magnetic field which is applied parallel, obliquely, and perpendicularly to the substrate electrodes to align the liquid crystal reaction medium.