Recent advances in conjugated polythiophene-based rod–rod block copolymers: From morphology control to optoelectronic applications

Supramolecular Conjugated Block Copolymers

While the performance of polymer−polymer bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics (OPVs) is poor compared with polymer−fullerene OPVs, reducing or eliminating micrometer-scale phase separation in all-polymer OPVs may dramatically improve performance. Herein, we demonstrate that 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone (UPy) quadruple hydrogen bonding interactions can be used to prevent micrometer-scale pha...

Recent Advances in Dual Temperature Responsive Block Copolymers and Their Potential as Biomedical Applications

The development of stimuli responsive polymers has progressed significantly with novel preparation techniques, which has allowed access to new materials with unique properties. Dual thermoresponsive (double temperature responsive) block copolymers are particularly of interest as their properties can change depending on the lower critical solution temperature (LCST) or upper critical solution te...

Control of Barite Morphology by Double-Hydrophilic Block Copolymers

Barite particles with a rich variety of well-defined morphologies have been synthesized by using double-hydrophilic block copolymers (which consist of a hydrophilic solvating block and a hydrophilic binding block) as crystal growth modifiers to direct the controlled precipitation of barium sulfate from aqueous solution. The influences of variation in functional group and molecular structure of ...

Design, Synthesis, Characterization and Use of Random Conjugated Copolymers for Optoelectronic Applications

We report the synthesis and the optoelectronic characterization of a new family of random conjugated copolymers based on 9,9-bisalkylfluorene, thiophene and benzothiadiazole monomers unit synthesized by a palladiumcatalyzed Suzuki cross-coupling reaction. The photophysical, thermal, electrochemical properties were investigated. The electronic structures of the copolymers were simulated via quan...

Recent Advances in EMG Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Control