Tailoring fluorinated electroactive polymers toward specific applications

Fluorinated electroactive polymers (FEPs) are emerging as one of the most prominent classes of insulating materials found in organic electronic devices. Despite their broad application, those materials have fixed electronic properties that are difficult to be tuned in order to achieve optimal performance in different applications. This mini-review highlights the need for tailoring the electronic properties of FEPs and explores the different approaches our group has proposed as solutions to such problem. Those include strategies to obtain stable dielectric properties and thus stable OFET performance over a broad range of temperature, as well as strategies to make FEPs directly compatible with photolithography, which is the most widely used fabrication technique by the semiconductor industry. Last, a general strategy to introduce different functional groups on FEPs is presented, allowing the introduction of altogether new properties to those polymers.