Boron nitride polymers: Building blocks for organic electronic devices - art. no. 125207

Modern electronic devices an increasingly being designed by combining mater ials with different electronic properties. The conventional semiconductor i ndustry has achieved this by building heterostructures, such as quantum wel ls and superlattices, from materials with the same crystal structure but di fferent constituent atoms. We propose that boron nitride polymers, with the same structure as organic polymers, will allow the same idea to be applied to polymer materials, already recognized as a cheap alternative to inorgan ic semiconductors. We demonstrate the similarity between organic polymers a nd their boron nitride analogues and then explore the potential innovations , including band gap tuning, that these new polymers could bring to organic polymer research.