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 …

The coupling of aryl halides with catalytically activated aryl C–H bondsprovides a desirable
and atom-economical alternative to standard cross-coupling reactions for the construction of …

During the last decade the field of polymer photovoltaics has seen a tremendous
improvement in both device efficiency and understanding of the underlying physical …

Conjugated poly-ynes and poly (metalla-ynes) constitute an important class of new materials
with potential application in various domains of science. The key factors responsible for the …

Over the past two decades, organic semiconductors have been the subject of intensive
academic and commercial interests. Thiazole is a common electron‐accepting heterocycle …

The design of novel conjugated polymers with appropriate frontier orbital energy levels, low
band gap (LBG) and suitable carrier transport properties are needed to improve the power …

This review describes the synthesis and photovoltaic performance of donor–acceptor (D–A)
semiconducting polymers that have been reported during the last decade. 9, 9‐Dialkyl‐2, 7 …

World energy needs grow each year. To address global warming and climate changes the
search for renewable energy sources with limited greenhouse gas emissions and the …

The most effective synthetic methodologies currently employed for producing polymeric
semiconductors are affected by cost, safety, and environmental issues which may seriously …

Four D–A copolymers of tetradodecyl-substituted indacenodithiophene (IDT) donor unit with
different acceptor units including bis (thiophen-2-yl)-bithiazole (BTz), bis (thiophen-2-yl) …