Polymer Semiconductors: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2025) | Viewed by 811
Special Issue Editor
Interests: organic field-effect transistors (OFETs); organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs); organic thermoelectric devices (OTEs); organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs)
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Polymeric semiconductor materials offer immense potential in flexible electronics, logic circuits, wearable tech, and bioelectronics due to their modifiable chemical structures, solution processability, flexibility, and biocompatibility. They complement traditional silicon-based semiconductors. Recent decades have seen significant advancements in their performance through novel structural designs and synthesis methods. Their performance relies on both chemical structure and solid-state multi-level microstructures. Polymeric semiconductors find wide applications in energy storage, conversion, and catalysis. Key applications include organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), organic field-effect transistors (OFETs), organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), organic thermoelectric devices (OTEs), and organic photovoltaic cells (OPVs). This Special Issue focuses on the current application status of polymeric semiconductor materials in organic electronic devices, highlighting research progress in designing, synthesizing, characterizing, and exploring novel applications of new semiconductor polymers.
Dr. Jianfeng Li
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- conjugated polymers
- imide
- N-type polymer semiconductors
- organic field-effect transistors
- organic thermoelectrics
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