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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2012
Enrique Daniel Gomez, State College, PA (US);
Kiarash Vakhshouri, Iii, State College, PA (US);
Seung-hyun Lee, Marlborough, MA (US);
Thomas Charles Sutter, Holden, MA (US);
George Lyles Athens, Midland, MI (US);
Krishna Balantrapu, Marlborough, MA (US);
Elissei Iagodkine, Marlborough, MA (US);
Enrique Daniel Gomez, State College, PA (US);
Kiarash Vakhshouri, III, State College, PA (US);
Seung-Hyun Lee, Marlborough, MA (US);
Thomas Charles Sutter, Holden, MA (US);
George Lyles Athens, Midland, MI (US);
Krishna Balantrapu, Marlborough, MA (US);
Elissei Iagodkine, Marlborough, MA (US);
ROHM AND HAAS ELECTRONIC MATERIALS LLC, Marlborough, MA (US);
DOW GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES LLC, Midland, MI (US);
THE PENN STATE RESEARCH FOUNDATION, University Park, PA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a composition comprising a regioregular polyalkylthiophene and/or a regioregular poly[2,5-bis(3-alkylthiophen-2-yl)thieno(3,2-b)thiophene]; where the composition is melted and then cooled to a temperature between a melting point and a glass transition temperature of the composition; the composition having an amount of crystallinity that is at least twice the amount of crystallinity of another identical composition that is crystallized by a method that does not involve melting and cooling to a temperature between the melting point and the glass transition temperature of the identical composition.