Oral Sessions (Day1, Day2, Day3)
Poster Presentations
(Day1, Day2, Day3)
Oral Sessions
- Day 1, May 15（Wed.） 17:20-17:40 Room B (102)
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1B-O2-1720 PDF
Py-GC/PI-HRTOFMS and KMD Analysis for Pyrolyzed Products of Poly(3-Hexylthiophene)
Py-GC/MS has been applied to structural analysis of commodity, engineering, and high-performance plastics. On the other hand, the application of Py-GC/MS to structural analysis of polymer semiconductors having rigid π-conjugated structures in their main chain has not been well examined. In this study, we performed structural analysis of poly(3-hexylthiophene) by Py-GC/MS technique. Here we used a GC/MS instrument with a high-resolution time-of-flight-mass spectrometer equipped with a photo-ionization (PI) source. Since PI is a soft ionization method, we could find the pyrolyzed compounds derived from π-conjugated main chain. In addition, we found that the pyrolyzed compounds can be categorized in several groups by Kendrick Mass Defect (KMD) analysis.