Polymers and the p-block elements

AM Priegert, BW Rawe, SC Serin… - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
A survey of the state-of-the-art in the development of synthetic methods to incorporate p-
block elements into polymers is given. The incorporation of main group elements (groups 13 …

Tellurium-containing polymers: Recent developments and trends

Y Dai, J Guan, S Zhang, S Pan, B Xianyu, Z Ge… - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Significant progresses have been made in tellurium-containing polymers over the past
decades. Just like other heteroatom-containing polymers, tellurium-containing polymers …

Chalcogenophene comonomer comparison in small band gap diketopyrrolopyrrole-based conjugated polymers for high-performing field-effect transistors and organic …

RS Ashraf, I Meager, M Nikolka, M Kirkus… - Journal of the …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The design, synthesis, and characterization of a series of diketopyrrolopyrrole-based
copolymers with different chalcogenophene comonomers (thiophene, selenophene, and …

Triplet tellurophene‐based acceptors for organic solar cells

L Yang, W Gu, L Lv, Y Chen, Y Yang, P Ye… - Angewandte …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Triplet materials have been employed to achieve high‐performing organic solar cells
(OSCs) by extending the exciton lifetime and diffusion distances, while the triplet non …

Enhancing the chemical stability and photovoltaic properties of highly efficient nonfullerene acceptors by chalcogen substitution: insights from quantum chemical …

L Benatto, JPA Souza, MFF das Neves… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The chemical stability of the nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) is the Achilles' heel of the research
on state-of-the-art organic solar cells (OSC). The fragility of NFA is essentially due to the …

A thieno [3, 2-b][1] benzothiophene isoindigo building block for additive-and annealing-free high-performance polymer solar cells

W Yue, RS Ashraf, CB Nielsen, E Collado-Fregoso… - 2015 - repository.kaust.edu.sa
A novel photoactive polymer with two different molecular weights is reported, based on a
new building block: thieno [3, 2-b][1] benzothiophene isoindigo. Due to the improved …

Alkylated selenophene-based ladder-type monomers via a facile route for high-performance thin-film transistor applications

Z Fei, Y Han, E Gann, T Hodsden… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report the synthesis of two new selenophene-containing ladder-type monomers,
cyclopentadiselenophene (CPDS) and indacenodiselenophene (IDSe), via a 2-fold and 4 …

Semiconducting polymers containing tellurium: perspectives toward obtaining high-performance materials

EI Carrera, DS Seferos - Macromolecules, 2015 - ACS Publications
The development of high-carbon-content polymers for optoelectronics is an area of intense
research; however, carbon-rich materials have certain limitations that arise from their …

Influence of the heteroatom on the optoelectronic properties and transistor performance of soluble thiophene-, selenophene-and tellurophene–vinylene copolymers

M Al-Hashimi, Y Han, J Smith, HS Bazzi… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the first soluble poly (3-dodecyl tellurophenylene-vinylene) polymer (P3TeV) by
Stille copolymerization and compare its properties to the analogous thiophene and …

Diazapentalene-containing ultralow-band-gap copolymers for high-performance near-infrared organic phototransistors

S Kim, D Lee, J Lee, Y Cho, SH Kang… - Chemistry of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Because of the limited availability of synthetic strategies and strong acceptor units,
constructing new types of low-band-gap donor–acceptor-type copolymers for use in multiple …