Abstract
The π-extended (E)-2-(2-(thiophen-2-yl)-vinyl)thiophene (TVT)-based polymers are an interesting class of semiconducting polymers because of their excellent mobilities and unique film microstructures. Despite these properties, the effect of the side-chain regiochemistry of TVT skeletons on the intrinsic properties of these polymers remains unclear. To investigate this, in this study, hexyl-substituted TVT subunits with a “tail in (TI)” or “tail out (TO)” regiosymmetrical arrangement were first introduced into diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based copolymer main chains to afford “isomeric” polymers PI and PO, respectively. By combining optical spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy (AFM), and grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) data, we quantitatively characterized the aggregation, crystallization, and backbone orientation of both polymer films, which were then correlated to the charge-carrier mobilities. The PI film exhibited a bimodal packing motif comprising a mixture of edge-on and face-on orientations...
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