Thienothiophenes, dithienothiophenes, and thienoacenes: syntheses, oligomers, polymers, and properties

ME Cinar, T Ozturk - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Heterocyclic compounds comprising various biochemical materials are an indispensable
member of our life such as nucleic acids. Moreover, many naturally occurring pigments …

Synthesis of conjugated polymers for organic solar cell applications

YJ Cheng, SH Yang, CS Hsu - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered as
being one of the most important ways to address growing global energy needs using a …

Functional oligothiophenes: molecular design for multidimensional nanoarchitectures and their applications

A Mishra, CQ Ma, P Bauerle - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Functional Oligothiophenes: Molecular Design for Multidimensional Nanoarchitectures and Their
Applications | Chemical Reviews ACS ACS Publications C&EN CAS Find my institution Log In …

Polymers for electronics and spintronics

P Bujak, I Kulszewicz-Bajer, M Zagorska… - Chemical Society …, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
This critical review is devoted to semiconducting and high spin polymers which are of great
scientific interest in view of further development of the organic electronics and the emerging …

Semiconducting thienothiophene copolymers: design, synthesis, morphology, and performance in thin‐film organic transistors

I McCulloch, M Heeney, ML Chabinyc… - Advanced …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors are emerging as a viable alternative to amorphous silicon in a
range of thin‐film transistor devices. With the possibility to formulate these p‐type materials …

Highly Disordered Polymer Field Effect Transistors: N-Alkyl Dithieno[3,2-b:2′,3′-d]pyrrole-Based Copolymers with Surprisingly High Charge Carrier Mobilities

J Liu, R Zhang, G Sauvé, T Kowalewski… - Journal of the …, 2008 - ACS Publications
A series of novel electroactive and photoactive conjugated copolymers based on N-alkyl
dithieno [3, 2-b: 2′, 3′-d] pyrroles (DTP) and thiophene (TH) units (DTP-co-THs) were …

Highly Efficient Inverted Organic Solar Cells Through Material and Interfacial Engineering of Indacenodithieno[3,2‐b]thiophene‐Based Polymers and Devices

JJ Intemann, K Yao, YX Li, HL Yip… - Advanced Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
A synergistic approach combining new material design and interfacial engineering of
devices is adopted to produce high efficiency inverted solar cells. Two new polymers, based …

High performance amorphous metallated π-conjugated polymers for field-effect transistors and polymer solar cells

NS Baek, SK Hau, HL Yip, O Acton, KS Chen… - Chemistry of …, 2008 - ACS Publications
Both high charge carrier mobility in OFETs and high power conversion efficiency in solar
cells were demonstrated in a series of amorphous metallated π-conjugated polymers. The …

Influence of side-chain regiochemistry on the transistor performance of high-mobility, all-donor polymers

Z Fei, P Pattanasattayavong, Y Han… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Three novel polythiophene isomers are reported whereby the only difference in structure
relates to the regiochemistry of the solubilizing side chains on the backbone. This is …

Synthesis and structure of alkyl-substituted fused thiophenes containing up to seven rings

M He, F Zhang - The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2007 - ACS Publications
We have established a series of synthetic methods to synthesize alkyl-substituted fused
thiophenes with degrees of fusion from two to seven rings. These fused thiophene ring …