New Progress in Functional Conjugated Polymers
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Smart and Functional Polymers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 August 2024) | Viewed by 5400
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Conjugated polymers are organic macromolecules with a backbone chain of alternating double- and single- bonds. Delocalised π-electrons from neighbouring overlapping p-orbitals enable the traditional ‘plastics’ to achieve metallic electrical conductivity and lead to interesting and useful optical and electronic properties. These electronic materials have attracted the joint attention of synthetic chemists, material physicists, and device engineers. Importantly, conjugated polymers have demonstrated diverse applications in flexible organic photovoltaics, transistors, polymer light-emitting diodes, bioelectronics (with mixed ionic and electronic conductivity), and more.
This Special Issue aims to present the recent advancements in the field of functional conjugated polymers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Design and synthetic strategies for conjugated polymers;
- Novel functionalization and post-polymerization modifications;
- Structure-property relationships in conjugated polymers;
- Applications of conductive polymers, such as OPVs, OFETs, and OLED, etc.;
- Mixed ionic and electronic conduction in conjugated polymers and bioelectronics;
- Conjugated polymer composites;
- Sustainable conjugated polymers.
I sincerely invite you to submit original research articles, reviews, and short communications to this Special Issue. Please contact the editorial team if you have any enquiries related to your submission.
Kind regards,
Dr. Qiao He
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conjugated polymer
- organic semiconductor
- molecular design
- optoelectronic property
- structure-property relationship
- aggregation and self-assembly
- polymer electronic device
- flexible electronics
- energy conversion and storage
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