화학공학소재연구정보센터
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, Vol.56, No.3, 205-211, 1999
Polymer-based symmetric electrochromic devices
The fact that conjugated polymers repeatedly undergo electrochemical doping/undoping processes, which are accompanied by color changes, makes these materials very attractive, and much effort has been devoted to their use in advanced devices. There is renewed interest in electroactive polymers that reversibly undergo both p- and n-doping because of their potential application in symmetric electrochemical devices. We employed fused molecules, dithienothiophenes, as monomers to obtain polymers with a narrow band gap suitable for nand p-doping. The performance results of two symmetric electrochromic devices having as electrodes both poly(dithieno[3,4-b:3',4'-d]thiophene) (pDTT1) and poly(dithieno[3,4-b:2',3'-d]thiophene) (pDTT3) are reported and discussed.