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The highly conducting carbon electrodes derived from spin-coated polyacrylonitrile films

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Carbon films prepared from pyrolyzation of spin-casted polyacrylonitrile (PAN) thin films display high electrical conductivity (>600 S/cm, at 1000 °C carbonization), low sheet resistance (about 100 Ω/square at the PAN film thickness of 70 nm) and partial transmittance. These pyrolyzed PAN (PPAN) films were patterned as bottom electrodes by photolithography, and utilized as drain and source electrodes to fabricate organic field-effect transistor (OFET) devices with a p-type semiconductor (P3HT) and an n-type semiconductor (DPP-containing quinoidal small molecule) through a spin-coating procedure. The results showed that the devices with the PAN electrodes exhibited almost the same excellent performance without any further modification compared to those devices with traditional Au electrodes. Since these PPAN films had the advantages of low-cost, high performance, easier for large-area fabrication, thermal and chemical stability, it should be a promising electrode material for organic electrodes.

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  1. Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Jiajia Zhang, Chao Wang, Jie Chen, Yuanhui Sun, Jie Yan, Ye Zou, Wei Xu & Daoben Zhu

  2. Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Beijing, 100190, China

    Jiajia Zhang, Chao Wang, Jie Chen, Yuanhui Sun, Jie Yan, Ye Zou, Wei Xu & Daoben Zhu

  3. Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Jiajia Zhang, Chao Wang, Jie Chen, Yuanhui Sun, Jie Yan, Ye Zou, Wei Xu & Daoben Zhu

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Zhang, J., Wang, C., Chen, J. et al. The highly conducting carbon electrodes derived from spin-coated polyacrylonitrile films. Sci. China Chem. 59, 672–678 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-015-0453-1

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