High surface area porous poly(phenylene butadiynylene) networks were obtained (BET surface area up to 842 m(2) g(-1)) by the palladium-catalyzed homocoupling of 1,3,5-triethynylbenzene and 1,4-diethynylbenzene.

An electron-transport-type host was synthesized using a benzo[4,5]furo[3,2-d]pyrimidine (BFP) core to develop high triplet energy host. The designed have both the tetraphenylsilyl blocking group and hole-transport-type carbazole group. In device application, used as an mixed with 3,3†-di(9H-carbazol-9-yl)-1,1†-biphenyl (mCBP) in blue phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PhO-LEDs) doped...

Here we report the influence of the polyimide precursor type on the surface morphology and properties of poly(p-phenylene biphenyltetracarboximide) (BPDA-PDA PI)/silica hybrid composite films. Two types of precursor polymer were employed: poly(p-phenylene biphenyltetracarboxamic acid) (BPDA-PDA PAA) and poly(p-phenylene biphenyltetracarboxamic diethyl ester) (BPDA-PDA PES). These precursor poly...

The rheological behavior of different precursor poly(p-phenylene vinylene) (prec-PPV) monolayers at the air-water interface was investigated using an interfacial stress rheometer (ISR). This device nicely reveals a transition of the precursor poly(2,5-dimethoxy-1,4 phenylene vinylene) (prec-DMePPV) monolayer from Newtonian to elastic behavior with increasing surface pressure. The transition is ...

The kinetics and thermodynamics of intramolecular electron transfer (IET) can be subjected to redox control in a bistable [2]rotaxane comprised of a dumbbell component containing an electron-rich 1,5-dioxynaphthalene (DNP) unit and an electron-poor phenylene-bridged bipyridinium (P-BIPY(2+)) unit and a cyclobis (paraquat-p-phenylene) (CBPQT(4+)) ring component. The [2]rotaxane exists in the gro...

The role of intermediate nonluminescent states in the relaxation of singlet excitons in the conjugated polymer poly~phenylene vinylene! ~PPV! and its soluble derivative poly@(2-methoxy-5-hexyloxy-p-phenylene) vinylene# ~MH-PPV! is investigated. Time-resolved luminescence and absorption measurements provide evidence for a long-lived, weakly emissive species in PPV at 17 K, in addition to the lum...

The resonant Raman and UV/vis absorption spectra of two diradicaloïd compounds, methyl viologen and phenylene-extended viologen in their neutral state, have been simulated using multiconfigurational wavefunction methods. For methyl viologen, a good agreement with experiment is evidenced for the UV/vis absorption vibronic structure, provided dynamic correlation is accounted for to get the vibrat...

Highly luminescent inclusion complexes consisting of poly(para-phenylene) (PPP) or poly(4,4'-diphenylene-vinylene) (PDV) in the helical cavity of amylose have been synthesised, structurally characterised by nuclear Overhauser spectroscopy and used to fabricate electroluminescent light-emitting diodes.

We map the location of emitting sites within a single conjugated polymer molecule poly[2-methoxy-5-(2'-ethyl-hexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene vinylene] with nanometre accuracy by means of a single-molecule imaging technique.