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This critical review discusses specific chemical and physicochemical requirements which
must be met for organic compounds to be considered as promising materials for applications …

The development of new organic semiconductors with improved performance in organic thin
film transistors (OTFTs) is a major challenge for materials chemists. There is a particular …

The design, synthesis, and characterization of new high-performance n-channel
molecular/polymeric semiconductors that are solution-processable and air-stable is of great …

The best polymeric solar cells reported so far are based on a so‐called bulk heterojunction
of a polythiophene as donor and a soluble fullerene derivative as acceptor. However, these …

Molecular rods are of considerable importance for nanoscience and nanotechnology. They
have been used as elementary functional building blocks for the construction of …

A series of new quinodimethane-substituted terthiophene and quaterthiophene oligomers
has been investigated for comparison with a previously studied quinoid oligothiophene that …

A power conversion efficiency of 3.4% with an open-circuit voltage of 1 V was recently
demonstrated in a thin film solar cell utilizing fullerene C 60 as acceptor and a new acceptor …

We present a conceptual approach to low bandgap copolymers, in which we clarify the
physical parameters which control the optical bandgap, develop a fundamental …

New electron-deficient and soluble indenofluorene-based and bisindenofluorene-based
ladder-type building blocks embedding carbonyl and dicyanovinylene functionalities were …