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Herein, a series of novel D-A type conjugated polymers, PBDT-IIDs, are designed and successfully prepared by \u201cgreen\u201d functionalization of the polymers with highly hydrophilic, highly polar, highly flexible, and biocompatible oligoethylene glycol (OEG) side chains in order to improve the processability. These series polymers are named PBDT-IID2, PBDT-IID3, and PBDT-IID4, respectively, according to the number of oxygen atoms in the side chain. After confirmation by structural characterization, the basic properties of PBDT-IIDs are also investigated. With the increase in the OEG side chain length, the polymer PBDT-IID4 not only has good solubility in the halogen solvent chlorobenzene, but also exhibits excellent solubility in the green halogen-free solvent methyltetrahydrofuran (Me-THF). As a result, the green solvent Me-THF can also be applied to prepare PBDT-IIDs\u2019 electrochromic active layers, except for chlorobenzene and toluene. The electrochromism of PBDT IIDs under both positive and negative voltages has a practical application potential. The several controllable switches between dark green and khaki (0\u20130.6 V) are expected to show great potential in the field of military camouflage. Furthermore, according to the principle of red, green, and blue (RGB) mixing, light blue-green in the reduced state (\u22121.6 V) can be used in the preparation of complementary ECDs to provide one of the three primary colors (green).<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma16010060","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,22]],"date-time":"2022-12-22T02:31:11Z","timestamp":1671676271000},"page":"60","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Preparation and Electrochromic Properties of Benzodithiophene-Isoindigo Conjugated Polymers with Oligoethylene Glycol Side Chains"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"given":"Qilin","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center of Special Engineering Plastics, Ministry of Education, National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthetic Technology of High Performance Polymer, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yuehui","family":"Zhai","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Materials and Energy, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Danming","family":"Chao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center of Special Engineering Plastics, Ministry of Education, National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthetic Technology of High Performance Polymer, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5567-522X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zheng","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center of Special Engineering Plastics, Ministry of Education, National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthetic Technology of High Performance Polymer, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhenhua","family":"Jiang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Engineering Research Center of Special Engineering Plastics, Ministry of Education, National and Local Joint Engineering Laboratory for Synthetic Technology of High Performance Polymer, College of Chemistry, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,21]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"100524","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mser.2019.100524","article-title":"Fusing electrochromic technology with other advanced technologies: A new roadmap for future development","volume":"140","author":"Wang","year":"2020","journal-title":"Mater. 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