Soluble high coloration efficiency electrochromic polymers based on (N-phenyl)carbazole, triphenylamine and 9,9-dioctyl-9H-fluorene

摘要： Here, we synthesized four kinds of monomers of 3,6-dibromo-(N-phenyl)carbazole with different substituent group, DCB, DDC, DNC and DTC, respectively, and used 4-(3-bromo-9H-carbazol-9-yl)benzaldehyde to react with triphenylamine (TPA) unit and hydrazine hydrate unit, respectively, to obtain the other two monomers, BCB-TPA and BCB-HH. Six novel polymers coded as PDCB-DF, PDDC-DF, PDNC-DF, PDCB-DTC-DF, PBCB-TPA-DF and PBCB-HH-DF, were synthesized by Suzuki reactions of 2,2'-(9,9-dioctyl-9H-fluorene-2,7-diyl)bis(1,3,2-dioxaborinane) with the six kinds of monomers and their electrochemical and spectroelectrochemical properties were investigated. The polymers showed good solubility and film-forming ability. Flexible or robust films of them could be readily obtained via solution-casting. These polymers showed the onset temperatures in the range of 300–470 °C when the 10% weight loss of polymers. The polymer films showed high coloration efficiency (CE) (196-376 cm2·C?1) and electrochromic stability. These properties illustrate that the polymers have great application prospect as electrochromic materials.