The optical properties of two series of thiophene-based polymers are interpreted by torsion analysis. When approached by the calculated HOMO/LUMO energy gaps of model molecules, the wavelength shifts from solutions to films are reasonable in cyclohexyl-substituted series but not in hexyl-substituted series, indicating that solid packing force plays a more important role in the former than in th...

A family of stable and soluble bithiazole-centered heterocyclic aromatic fluorescent compounds is described herein. All these multiple N-donor containing compounds have effective π-conjugated systems and different imidazole, pyridine, thiophene, triphenylamino, benzoic acid, and ethyl benzoate tails showing distinguishable D-A-A-D and A-A-A-A structures. X-ray single-crystal structures of seven...

The effect of ketonic defects on electrical properties, i.e., the performance of organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) was examined in fluorene end capped fused bithiophene oligomers (BFTT). The long wavelength emission at 2.1–2.3 eV resulting from the ketonic defects was observed in photoluminescence spectra of BFTT films after UV irradiation in air. In addition, the peak corresponding to t...

The inclusionofbithiophenedicarboxylate (btDC) in La(III)[15-MCCu,N,L-phenylalaninehydroximate-5] hosts (LaMC) unexpectedly results in a clathratocomplex with a completely disrupted hydrophobic cavity. Structures best formulated as {(LaMC)2(μ2-O)} are formed that dimerize across the hydrophilic parts. This dimer appears stabilized by 5 phenyl-DMF-phenyl interactions and 10 DMFamine hydrogen bon...

The development of low-cost, reliable sensors will rely on devices capable of converting an analyte binding event to an easily read electrical signal. Organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) are ideal for inexpensive, single-use chemical or biological sensors because of their compatibility with flexible, large-area substrates, simple processing, and highly tunable active layer materials. We have ...

A new synthetic approach towards the preparation of functionalised, soluble, donor-acceptor (DA) alkylbithiophene derivatives of oxadiazole, thiadiazole and triazole is reported. Taking advantage of the Fiesselmann reaction, reactive bithiophene synthons having alkyl or alkoxy substituents at designated positions are prepared. Following a synthetic strategy, featuring the bottom-up approach, se...

We have used thermal treatment and rubbed polyimide alignment layers to produce large domains of poly(9,9dioctylfluorene-co-bithiophene) alternating copolymer (F8T2). The direction of rubbing on the polyimide surface determines the orientation of these domains, allowing us to create thin-film transistors with channel lengths parallel and perpendicular to the liquid crystal polymer director. We ...

Polystyrene (PS) nanoparticle (NP) copolymerized with acrylic acid (AA) and coloured monomer, i.e. 2,3,6,7-tetra(2,2'-bithiophene)-1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic-N,N'-di(2-methylallyl)-bisimide (ALN8T), was synthesized via the miniemulsion polymerization. Before applying for malaria antigen detection, the blue NP was conjugated with human polyclonal malaria IgG antibody (Ab) specific to Pla...