In this research, conducting polymer -polypyrrole (Ppy), was electrochemically polymerized on the indium tin oxide coated glass (glass/ITO) electrode. The adhesion of Ppy on the surface of ITO was improved by modification with triethoxymethylsilane (TEMS). Potential cycling was applied for electrochemical deposition of Ppy layer and cyclic voltammograms were recorded during the deposition to monitor polymerization process. Cyclic voltammetry and the potential pulse sequence (PPS)-based chronoamperometry methods complemented the registration of absorbance spectra of glass/ITO (TEMS) /Ppy at various pH and different concentrations of CO 2 . The applicability of glass/ITO (TEMS) /Ppy electrode in the design of electrochromic sensor sensitive toward CO 2 has been evaluated. Cyclic voltammetry based experiments at different potential sweep rates in presence and absence of CO 2 were performed in order to evaluate charge transfer phenomenon in glass/ITO (TEMS) /Ppy structure.
Inspired by the excellent device performance of triindole-based semiconductors in electronic and optoelectronic devices, the relationship between the solid-state organization and the charge-transporting properties of an easily accessible series of triindole derivatives is reported herein. The vacuum-evaporated organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) exhibited a non ideal behaviour with a double slope in the saturation curves. Moreover, the treatment of the gate insulator of the OTFT device with either a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) or a polymer controls the molecular growth and the film morphology of the semiconducting layer, as shown by X-ray diffraction (XRD) analyses, atomic force microscopy (AFM) and theoretical calculations. N-Trihexyltriindole exhibited the best device performance with hole mobilities up to 0.1 cm2 V-1 s-1 at the low VG range and up to 0.01 cm2 V-1 s-1 at high VG, as well as enhanced Ion/Ioff ratios of around 106. The results suggest that the non-ideal behaviour of the here studied OTFT devices could be related to the higher interfacial disorder in comparison to that in the bulk.
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