Building molecular ladders for next-generation organic electronic materials (IMAGE)

Saitama University

Building molecular ladders for next-generation organic electronic materials

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This figure illustrates how researchers at Saitama University developed a strategy to build one additional thiophene ring onto an existing thiophene framework while controlling the orientation of the sulfur atom. To demonstrate the power of the method, they synthesized a complete set of ladder-type oligothiophenes covering every possible sulfur orientation. Such precisely defined molecular structures could broaden the design of organic semiconductors and other functional molecular materials.

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Hidenori Kinoshita from Saitama University

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