Group 16 conjugated polymers based on furan, thiophene, selenophene, and tellurophene

S Ye, V Lotocki, H Xu, DS Seferos - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Five-membered aromatic rings containing Group 16 elements (O, S, Se, and Te), also
referred as chalcogenophenes, are ubiquitous building blocks for π-conjugated polymers …

Conjugated copolymers through electrospinning synthetic strategies and their versatile applications in sensing environmental toxicants, pH, temperature, and humidity

L Veeramuthu, M Venkatesan, FC Liang, JS Benas… - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Conjugated copolymers (CCPs) are a class of polymers with excellent optical luminescent
and electrical conducting properties because of their extensive π conjugation. CCPs have …

Sequence design in terpolymerization of ε-caprolactone, CO2 and cyclohexane oxide: Random ester-carbonate distributions lead to large-span tunability

Z Yang, C Hu, X Pang, X Chen - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
It is of great interest to make a degradable material widely tailorable to replace petroleum-
derived products among diverse applications. Here, we report the construction of a new …

Gradient copolymer micelles: An introduction to structures as well as structural transitions

C Zheng - Soft Matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Exhibiting variation of the composition along a chain, gradient copolymers bring new blood
to the old story of polymeric micelles. The gradient chain structure results in some special …

Quantitative comparison of the copolymerisation kinetics in catalyst-transfer copolymerisation to synthesise polythiophenes

Y He, CK Luscombe - Polymer Chemistry, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Polythiophenes are one of the most widely studied conjugated polymers. With the discovery
of the chain mechanism of Kumada catalyst-transfer polymerisation (KCTP), various …

Carbanionic Copolymerization-Induced Crystallization

X Wang, L Han, H Bai, Y Yin, H Yan, Z Yang… - …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Novel semicrystalline copolymers were successfully synthesized by alternating carbanionic
copolymerization in this work. During alternating carbanionic copolymerization of 9 …

Fullerene-Functionalized Poly (3-hexylthiophene) Additive Stabilizes Conjugated Polymer–Fullerene Blend Morphologies

D Kim, EA Mueller, DS Yang, DE Fagnani… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics are again gaining traction as device power conversion efficiencies
have increased substantially over the last two years. Despite these improved efficiencies …

Improved Performance and Stability of Organic Solar Cells by the Incorporation of a Block Copolymer Interfacial Layer

GE Pérez, H Erothu, PD Topham… - Advanced Materials …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
In a proof‐of‐concept study, this work demonstrates that incorporating a specifically
designed block copolymer as an interfacial layer between a charge transport layer and the …

Energy Harvesting using Organic Electronics

PA Finn - 2021 - qmro.qmul.ac.uk
Organic semiconductors (OSCs) have beneficial uses in energy harvesting including
thermoelectric and photovoltaic applications. However, the fundamental understanding of …

Characterisation and Optimisation of the Hole Transport Interface in Organic Solar Cells for Improved Performance and Stability of the Devices

GE Pérez - 2019 - etheses.whiterose.ac.uk
The increased atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases due to the combustion of
fossil fuels and its impact on the temperature of the planet has led to the development of …