Light-Enabled Access to Oxidative Polymerization: A Short Perspective on Bioinspired Oxidative Photopolymerization

Solar irradiation provides critical energy to conduct chemical reactions. Many light-sensitive materials, such as semiconductors, guide photoredox-induced chemical pathways to tailor favored chemical conversions. Polymer synthesis by light is popular, however mainly addressed by conducting radical-based polymerization strategies. Oxidative...

Electrically conducting fibres for e-textiles: An open playground for conjugated polymers and carbon nanomaterials

Conducting fibres and yarns promise to become an essential part of the next generation of wearable electronics that seamlessly integrate electronic function into one of the most versatile and most widely used form of materials: textiles. This review explores the many types of conducting fibres and yarns that can be realised with conjugated...

Charge Transport in Disordered Molecular Systems

How does classical reality emerge from quantum mechanics? When does an electron in a molecule stop behaving as a wave and start behaving as a particle? What is the best way to describe the intermediate regime? Can quantum mechanical effects be put to practical use in molecular electronics? These are the questions that this thesis asks and...

Photoconductance of conjugated materials for organic electronics

The photogeneration and mobility of charge carriers in organic thin films, including bulk heterojunctions (BHJs), have been studied with the time resolved microwave photo-conductance technique (TRMC). The TRMC technique allows the electrodeless measurement of the photoconductance with nanosecond time resolution. The research focuses on the way...

Opto-electronic properties of charged conjugated molecules

The aim of this thesis is to provide fundamental insight into the nature and opto-electronic properties of charge carriers on conjugated oligomers and polymers. Electronic structure, optical absorption properties and distribution of charge carriers along the chains of different conjugated materials are central issues of this thesis. In order to...

Charge transport along molecular wires

Imagine plastic electronics ... Consumer products such as mobile phones, mp3 players and palmtop computers that do not break when you accidentally drop them, with flexible displays. Moreover, these all plastic products would be cheaper than the current products based on conventional semi conductors. Apart from these advantaged, there is also a...

Opto-Electronic Properties of Conjugated Molecular Wires

Conjugated polymers are of considerable current interest because of their semi-conducting and light-emitting properties. These properties, combined with their relatively low cost and good processability as compared to inorganic semiconductors, make them attractive candidates for application in plastic electronic devices. Conjugated polymers are...

Nanofabrication of electrodes with sub-5 nm spacing for transport experiments on single molecules and metal clusters

Charge transport in pi- and sigma-conjugated polymers