Semiconducting Polymers Containing Tellurium: Perspectives Toward Obtaining High-Performance Materials

Ultra-sensitive ROS-responsive tellurium-containing polymers.

A novel tellurium-containing polymer micelle system is reported to be responsive to 100 μM H2O2 and can undergo a series of morphological changes. The polymer micelles also respond to 2 Gy gamma radiation, which is the exact dosage a patient receives per day for clinical radiation therapy.

Tellurium as a high-performance elemental thermoelectric

High-efficiency thermoelectric materials require a high conductivity. It is known that a large number of degenerate band valleys offers many conducting channels for improving the conductivity without detrimental effects on the other properties explicitly, and therefore, increases thermoelectric performance. In addition to the strategy of converging different bands, many semiconductors provide a...

Development of New Organic Semiconducting Materials Containing Quasiplanar Skeleton

Zhang, R.; Futagoishi, T.; Murata, M.; Wakamiya, A.; Murata, Y., Synthesis and Structure of an Open-Cage Thiafullerene C69S: Reactivity Differences of an Open-Cage C70 Tetraketone Relative to Its C60 Analogue, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 8193-8196 (2014). Hashikawa, Y.; Murata, M.; Wakamiya, A.; Murata, Y., Synthesis of Open-Cage Ketolactam Derivatives of Fullerene C60 Encapsulating a Hydrogen Mole...

Molecular Design of Semiconducting Polymers for High-Performance Organic Electrochemical Transistors

The organic electrochemical transistor (OECT), capable of transducing small ionic fluxes into electronic signals in an aqueous environment, is an ideal device to utilize in bioelectronic applications. Currently, most OECTs are fabricated with commercially available conducting poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-based suspensions and are therefore operated in depletion mode. Here, we presen...

Metal-containing and metallo-supramolecular polymers and materials.