The ability of chemists to design and synthesize p-conjugated organic polymers with precise control over the molecular weight with narrow polydispersities remains one of the keys to using polymeric materials in electronic and photonic devices. Being able to synthesize well-defined block copolymers, star shaped polymers and surface grafted polymers will expand the structural library of semiconducting polymers which will allow us to obtain a more in-depth knowledge of the relationship between the structure-property relationship of semiconducting polymers. Extensive research for nonlinear polymers has been conducted to prepare multifunctional molecular architectures with higher dimensionalities such as star-shaped, disk-like, and hyperbranched polymers. Their intrinsic compact structures and globular shape predetermine their unique properties in comparison with linear polymers, such as low viscosity and high solubility. In this talk, the synthetic advances that have been made in creating star and dendritic polymers will be discussed.

Controlling the architecture of semiconducting polymers

248th National Meeting (2014)

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