Functional device and multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material

• US 6,391,471 B1
• Filed: 03/28/2000
• Issued: 05/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hiraoka, Toshiro, Asakawa, Koji
• Primary Examiner(s): Seidleck, James J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Asinovsky, Olga
• Application Number:
  US09/536,684
• Time in Patent Office: 784 Days
• Field of Search: 428/623, 428/624, 428/626, 428/620
• US Class Current: 428/623
• CPC Class Codes: C08F 297/02 using a catalyst of the anionic type
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 10/00 Organic devices specially adapted for rectifying, amplifying, oscillating or switching; Organic capacitors or resistors having potential barriers integrated devices or assemblies of multiple devices H10K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 30/151 the wide bandgap semiconductor comprising titanium oxide, e.g. TiO2
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 30/30 comprising bulk heterojunctions, e.g. interpenetrating networks of donor and acceptor material domains
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 50/11 characterised by the electroluminescent [EL] layers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/113 Heteroaromatic compounds comprising sulfur or selene, e.g. polythiophene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/141 comprising aliphatic or olefinic chains, e.g. poly N-vinylcarbazol, PVC or PTFE
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/151 Copolymers
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/311 Phthalocyanine
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/40 Organosilicon compounds, e.g. TIPS pentacene
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/621 Aromatic anhydride or imide compounds, e.g. perylene tetra-carboxylic dianhydride or perylene tetracarboxylic di-imide
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/631 Amine compounds having at least two aryl rest on at least one amine-nitrogen atom, e.g. triphenylamine
• CPC Class Codes: H10K 85/6565 Oxadiazole compounds
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 10/549 Organic PV cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12528 Semiconductor component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12549 Adjacent to each other
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12556 Organic component
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 428/12569 Synthetic resin

Abstract

The present invention provides a multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material in which a plurality of hole- or electron-conducting phases constitute a three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure, and a functional device using the same. Such a functional device is quick in response and good in durability. The present invention also relates to a functional device comprising a laminated structure composed of a plurality of layers laminated, and at least one pair of electrodes that penetrate the interface between two layers laminated.

Claims

1. A functional device which comprises a multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material containing, at least, chains A and B that are hole- or electron-conducting polymer chains, wherein phase A that is an aggregate of the chains A and phase B that is an aggregate of the chains B constitute a three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure, and, at the same time, are chemically bonded at the interface between them, and which has such a device structure that electrode terminals are respectively connected to the phase A and the phase B.

2. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the chain A and the chain B are combined by covalent bond.

3. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the chain A and the chain B constitute, by chemical bonding, a copolymer selected from di-block copolymers of A-B type, tri-block copolymers of A-B-A type, and tri-block copolymers of B-A-B type.

4. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein phase C, a continuous phase that is an aggregate of chains C, polymer chains different from the chains A and B, is present at the interface between the phases A and B.

5. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the weight-average molecular weight of the block composed of the chain A and that of the block composed of the chain B are respectively 10,000 or more.

6. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight Mw to the number-average molecular weight Mn (Mw/Mn) of the polymer chain that constitutes the chain A or B is 1.15 or less.

7. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the electrode terminal connected to the phase A is connected to the phase B through the phase A, and the electrode terminal connected to the phase B is connected to the phase A through the phase B.

8. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure has openings whose mean diameter is 0.1 μ

m or less.

9. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure is one selected from the group consisting of OBDD structures, Gyroid structures, lamellacathenoid structures, T-surface structures, P-surface structures, D-surface structures, G-surface structures, and disordered structures.

14. The functional device according to claim 1, wherein the three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure has openings whose mean diameter is 0.1 μ

m or less.

10. A functional device which comprises, at least, hole- or electron-conducting phases A and B, wherein the phase A and the phase B constitute at least one three-dimensional bicontinuous phase nano separation structure selected from the group consisting of OBDD structures and Gyroid structures, and which has such a device structure that electrode terminals are respectively connected to the phase A and the phase B.

11. The functional device according to claim 10, wherein the phase A and the phase B are combined by covalent bond.

12. The functional device according to claim 10, wherein insulating, hole-conducting, electron-conducting or ion-conducting phase C is present at the interface between the phases A and B, and the phases A, B and C constitute an OTDD structure.

13. The functional device according to claim 10, wherein the electrode terminal connected to the phase A is connected to the phase A directly, and the electrode terminal connected to the phase B is connected to the phase B directly.

15. A multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material comprising, at least, chains A and B that are hole- or electron-conducting polymer chains, wherein phase A that is an aggregate of the chains A and phase B that is an aggregate of the chains B constitute a three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure, and, at the same time, are chemically bonded at the interface between them.

16. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein the chain A and the chain B are combined by covalent bond.

17. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein the chain A and the chain B constitute, by chemical bonding, a copolymer selected from di-block copolymers of A-B type, tri-block copolymers of A-B-A type, and tri-block copolymers of B-A-B type.

18. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein phase C, a continuous phase that is an aggregate of chains C, polymer chains different from the chains A and B, is present at the interface between the phases A and B.

19. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein the weight-average molecular weight of the block composed of the chain A and that of the block composed of the chain B are respectively 10,000 or more.

20. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein the ratio of the weight-average molecular weight Mw to the number-average molecular weight Mn (Mw/Mn) of the polymer chain that constitutes the chain A or B is 1.15 or less.

21. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein the three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure has openings whose mean diameter is 0.1 μ

m or less.

22. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein the three-dimensional bicontinuous nano phase separation structure is one selected from the group consisting of OBDD structures, Gyroid structures, lamellacathenoid structures, T-surface structures, P-surface structures, D-surface structures, G-surface structures, and disordered structures.

23. The multi-component multi-phase type polymeric shaped material according to claim 15, wherein insulating, hole-conducting, electron-conducting or ion-conducting phase C is present at the interface between the phases A and B, and the phases A, B and C constitute an OTDD structure.