Polymer semiconductors: synthesis, processing, and applications

L Ding, ZD Yu, XY Wang, ZF Yao, Y Lu… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Polymer semiconductors composed of a carbon-based π conjugated backbone have been
studied for several decades as active layers of multifarious organic electronic devices. They …

From solution to thin film: molecular assembly of π-conjugated systems and impact on (opto) electronic properties

A Khasbaatar, Z Xu, JH Lee… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of conjugated organic molecules from solution to solid-state plays a critical
role in determining the thin film morphology and optoelectronic properties of solution …

The meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers

X Gu, L Shaw, K Gu, MF Toney, Z Bao - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The electronic devices that play a vital role in our daily life are primarily based on silicon and
are thus rigid, opaque, and relatively heavy. However, new electronics relying on polymer …

Printable semiconductors for backplane TFTs of flexible OLED displays

H Zhu, ES Shin, A Liu, D Ji, Y Xu… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Studies on printable semiconductors and technologies have increased rapidly over recent
decades, pioneering novel applications in many fields, such as energy, sensing, logic …

Strategies to enhance the conductivity of n-type polymer thermoelectric materials

Y Lu, JY Wang, J Pei - Chemistry of Materials, 2019 - ACS Publications
In the past several decades, conducting polymers have achieved remarkable progress and
have been widely applied as the active materials for optoelectronics. So far, p-type …

Optimizing morphology to trade off charge transport and mechanical properties of stretchable conjugated polymer films

Z Ding, D Liu, K Zhao, Y Han - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conjugated polymers are a promising candidate for large-area stretchable electronics
because of their tunable electrical and mechanical properties, light weight, and low-cost …

Recent progress in tuning polymer oriented microstructures for enhanced thermoelectric performance

L Deng, G Chen - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, the research of conjugated polymer-based thermoelectric (TE) materials has
experienced exponential growth due to their diverse advantages and promising application …

Recent advances in the orientation of conjugated polymers for organic field-effect transistors

M Pandey, N Kumari, S Nagamatsu… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Solution processable conjugated polymers (CPs) possess unique molecular structures in
terms of extended π-conjugation in combination with quasi 1-dimensionality, imparting them …

Enabling high efficiency of hydrocarbon‐solvent processed organic solar cells through balanced charge generation and non‐radiative loss

B Fan, F Lin, J Oh, H Fu, W Gao, Q Fan… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Using non‐halogenated solvents to process organic solar cells is preferable because they
are less harmful to human health. However, it is challenging to mitigate the delicate trade …

(Semi) ladder-type bithiophene imide-based all-acceptor semiconductors: Synthesis, structure–property correlations, and unipolar n-type transistor performance

Y Wang, H Guo, A Harbuzaru, MA Uddin… - Journal of the …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Development of high-performance unipolar n-type organic semiconductors still remains as a
great challenge. In this work, all-acceptor bithiophene imide-based ladder-type small …