Fluorinated building blocks for next-generation polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells

The purpose of this thesis is to design, create and study basic building blocks for the construction of self-assembled nanostructured electrodes and membranes for PEMFC. The research described deals with the synthesis of polymerizable fluorosurfactant (1) and its non-polymerizable analogue (2) and the study of their self-assembly properties....

Synthesis, Mesophase Behaviour and Charge Mobility of Phenyl-Thiophene Pentamers

The performance of opto-electronic devices based on semi-conducting organic molecules, dependence on the molecular order of the semi-conducting molecules. To get high charge transportation through the material a high order of the material is needed. In our research we used liquid crystalline phases to get relative high order over large distances...