Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue focuses on latest research and reviews summarize different aspects in design of conjugated polymers (CPs) affecting theirs conductivity properties and electric band structure. Over the past several decades, CPs have gained increasing attention owing to their strong potential as alternatives to inorganic counterparts, which led to expend of fundamental knowledge and introduction of many practical applications. The various approaches in the new structure design can be discussed includes bond-length alternation, resonance energy, planarity of the conjugated structure, substituents effects, π-conjugation length,  donor–acceptor structures, degree of crystallinity, intra- and inter-chain interactions etc. New structural approaches in design of CPs is also consideration a variable conductive mechanism – electronic, ion, redox. You are encouraged to present the methods of polymerization and electropolymerization and compare a variety of theoretical and experimental methods in order to better characterize the electronic structure and conducting properties of CPs: DFT; photoelectron spectroscopy techniques UPS, XPS; electrochemical methods (CV, DPV, EVS, microelectrochemical transistor method), electrochemical scanning tunneling spectroscopy (EC-STS); UV-Vis, electron spin resonance ESR spectroscopy etc. We are also waiting for reports on the implementation of CPs in key but also less common applications –  OPVs, NIR emission OLEDs, NIR detectors, biosensors, memory devices.

Dr. Malgorzata Czichy
Dr. Wenpo Li
Guest Editors

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