The development of organic semiconductors for photovoltaic devices, over the last three
decades, has led to unexpected performance for an alternative choice of materials to convert …

Constructing highly planar, extended π-electron systems is an important strategy for
achieving high-mobility organic semiconductors. In general, there are two synthetic …

Conducting polymers (CPs) have drawn considerable attention because of their economical
importance, good environmental stability and electrical conductivity as well as due to their …

Optical detection and spectroscopy of single molecules and single nanoparticles have been
achieved at room temperature with the use of surface-enhanced Raman scattering …

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 …

This article summarizes and reviews the various preparation methods, physical properties,
and potential applications of one-dimensional nanostructures of conjugated polyaniline …

An overview of one of the most successful conducting polymers, poly (3, 4‐
ethylenedioxythiophene)(PEDT) and its derivatives, is presented, detailing its early …

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the literature on one-dimensional (1D)
nanostructures (nanowires, nanoribbons, nanotubes, nanobelts, and nanofibers) of π …

Low band gap polymer materials and their application in organic photovoltaics (OPV) are
reviewed. We detail the synthetic approaches to low band gap polymer materials starting …

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 …