Incorporation of hydrogen-bonding units into polymeric semiconductors toward boosting charge mobility,intrinsic stretchability,and self-healing ability

The soft nature has endowed conjugated polymers with promising applications in a wide range of field-effect transistor(FET)based flexible electronics.With unremitting efforts on revealing the molecular structure-property relationships,numerous novel conjugated polymers with high mobility and excellent mechanical property have been developed in the past decades.Incorporating hydrogen-bonding(H-bonding)units into semiconducting polymers is one of the most successful strategies for designing high-performance semiconducting materials.In this review,we aim to highlight the roles of H-bonding units in the performances of polymeric FETs from three aspects.These include(i)charge mobility enhancement for semiconducting polymers after incorporation of H-bonding units into the side chains,(ii)the effects of H-bonding units on the stretchability of conjugated polymers,and(iii)the improvement of self-healing properties of conjugated polymers containing dynamic hydrogen bonds due to the H-bonding units in the side chains or conjugated backbones.