Abstract
Regulating the conductivity of conducting polymers has spurred increasing studies, aiming at meeting different demands in various fields, including chemosensors, photovoltaic cells, and so on. Herein, linear pillar[5]arene-containing conjugated polymers were designed and synthesized via metathesis cyclopolymerization of pillar[5]arene-functionalized 1,6-heptadiyne. Upon addition of an ionic guest, such polymers could form inclusion complexes, of which the glass transition temperature decreased dramatically. With the aid of ionic guest and host-guest complexations between the pendant pillararenes and guest, these supramolecular materials exhibited tunable conductivity from 10-12 to 10-3 S·cm-1 at 30 °C. In addition, compared with the polymers without pendant pillar[5]arenes, such polymers showed better compatibility with the ionic guest, which could prevent the leakage of the latter one and was good for the conductivity of the material.
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