Re. Gill et al., TUNING OF PHOTOLUMINESCENCE AND ELECTROLUMINESCENCE IN ALKYLATED POLYTHIOPHENES WITH WELL-DEFINED REGIOREGULARITY, Advanced materials, 6(2), 1994, pp. 132-135
Color tuning of luminescence via molecular engineering of the Active p
olymer is important for the commercial application of pi-conjugated po
lymers in photonic devices. The synthesis of a series of regiospecific
alkylated polythiophenes is described. in which the effective conjuga
tion length could be varied by altering the length of the coplanar blo
cks between head-to-head dyads. It is demonstrated that the color-tune
d materials obtained by this novel approach are potentially suitable f
or application in displays and other devices.