Advanced Materials, Vol.16, No.23-24, 2087-2087, 2004
Multiscale scanning Tunneling Microscopy Study of self-assembly phenomena in two-dimensional polycrystals of pi-conjugated polymers: The case of regioregular poly (dioctylbithiophene-alt-fluore-none)
A regioregular pi-conjugated alternating copolymer that contains fluorenone and bithiophene subunits forms self-organized polycrystals with meso- and nanoscopic structural features is imaged by low-current scanning tunneling microscopy. Unlike conjugated polymers lacking the fluorenone subunit (Figure. left), the rigidity of the copolymer discourages chain folding and results in "fold-free" monodomains (right).