Direct (hetero) arylation polymerization: simplicity for conjugated polymer synthesis

JR Pouliot, F Grenier, JT Blaskovits, S Beaupré… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Direct (hetero) arylation polymerization (DHAP) has recently been established as an
environmentally benign method for the preparation of conjugated polymers. This synthetic …

Synthesis of light-emitting conjugated polymers for applications in electroluminescent devices

AC Grimsdale, K Leok Chan, RE Martin… - Chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The award of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000 to Professors Alan Heeger, Alan
MacDiarmid, and Hideki Shirakawa for their discovery that “doped” polyacetylene can …

Aryl− aryl bond formation one century after the discovery of the Ullmann reaction

J Hassan, M Sévignon, C Gozzi, E Schulz… - Chemical …, 2002 - ACS Publications
Arylraryl bond formation is one of the most important tools of modern organic synthesis.
These bonds are very often found in natural products such as alkaloids as well as in …

Advances in charge carrier mobilities of semiconducting polymers used in organic transistors

S Holliday, JE Donaghey, I McCulloch - Chemistry of Materials, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this review, we describe and discuss recent advances in the performance of polymeric
semiconductors in organic field effect transistors (OFETs). Design concepts such as short …

Electroluminescent conjugated polymers—seeing polymers in a new light

A Kraft, AC Grimsdale… - Angewandte Chemie …, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
A new exciting interdisciplinary research field has evolved following the discovery that
conjugated polymers can emit light when put into light‐emitting diodes. A myriad of light …

The chemistry of conducting polythiophenes

RD McCullough - Advanced materials, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Directing the structure and function of polythiophenes (PTs) can lead to remarkable
enhancements in the electronic and photonic properties of the resultant materials, as …

Compound core–shell polymer nanofibers by co‐electrospinning

Z Sun, E Zussman, AL Yarin, JH Wendorff… - Advanced …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Co‐electrospinning of core–shell polymer nanofibers (see Figure) is introduced. This
process can be used for manufacturing of coaxial nanofibers made of pairs of different …

Processable low-bandgap polymers for photovoltaic applications

PLT Boudreault, A Najari, M Leclerc - Chemistry of Materials, 2011 - ACS Publications
Over the last five years, organic photovoltaic devices have emerged as a new competitor to
silicon-based solar cells. In particular, the bulk heterojunction architecture (BHJ), in which …

Electrochemistry of poly (3, 4‐alkylenedioxythiophene) derivatives

L Groenendaal, G Zotti, PH Aubert… - Advanced …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
An overview of the electrochemistry of poly (3, 4‐alkylenedioxythiophene) s (PXDOTs) is
presented. As a class of conducting and electroactive polymers that can exhibit high and …

Light‐emitting polythiophenes

IF Perepichka, DF Perepichka, H Meng… - Advanced …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Polythiophenes are one of the most important classes of conjugated polymers, with a wide
range of applications, such as conducting films, electrochromics, and field‐effect transistors …