Semiconducting Polymer Composites

The first part of Semiconducting Polymer Composites describes the principles and concepts of semiconducting polymer composites in general, addressing electrical conductivity, energy alignment at interfaces, morphology, energy transfer, percolation theory and processing techniques. In later chapters, different types of polymer composites are discussed: mixtures of semiconducting and insulating or semiconducting and semiconducting components, respectively. These composites are suitable for a variety of applications that are presented in detail, including transistors and solar cells, sensors and detectors, diodes and lasers as well as anti-corrosive and anti-static surface coatings.

Auteur
Xiaoniu Yang is the Head of the Center for Polymer Composite Engineering at the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Having obtained his academic degrees from CIAC, he spent a few years in Germany and the Netherlands before taking up his present appointment at CIAC. Professor Yang has authored more than sixty scientific publications, filed sixteen patents and received the National Science Foundation Award for Distinguished Young Scholars of China in 2009. He is also a member of the commission for Applied Chemistry of the Chinese Chemical Society.

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The first part of Semiconducting Polymer Composites describes the principles and concepts of semiconducting polymer composites in general, addressing electrical conductivity, energy alignment at interfaces, morphology, energy transfer, percolation theory and processing techniques. In later chapters, different types of polymer composites are discussed: mixtures of semiconducting g and insulating or semiconducting and semiconducting components, respectively. These composites are suitable for a variety of applications that are presented in detail, including transistors and solar cells, sensors and detectors, diodes and lasers as well as anti-corrosive and anti-static surface coatings.

Contenu

1. Solubility, Miscibility, and the Impact on Solid-State Morphology
   
   2. Nanoscale Morphological Characterization for Semiconductive Polymer Blends
   3. Energy Level Alignment at Semiconductive Polymer Interfaces: Correlating Electronic Energy Levels and Electrical Conductivity
   4. Energy and Charge Transfer
   5. Percolation Theory and Its Application in Electrically Conducting Materials
   6. Processing Technologies of Semiconducting Polymer Composite Thin Films for Photovoltaic Cell Applications
   7. Thin-Film Transistors Based on Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composites with Enhanced Charge Transport
   8. Semiconducting Organic Molecule/Polymer Composites for Thin-Film Transistors
   9. Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composite and Its Morphological Requirement
   10. Intrinsically Conducting Polymers and Their Composites for Anticorrosion and Antistatic Applications
   11. Conjugated?Insulating Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Electronic Properties
   12. Fullerene/Conjugated Polymer Composite for the State-of-the-Art Polymer Solar Cells
   13. Semiconducting Nanocrystal/Conjugated Polymer Composites for Applications in Hybrid Polymer Solar Cells
   14. Conjugated Polymer Blends: Toward All-Polymer Solar Cells
   15. Conjugated Polymer Composites and Copolymers for Light-Emitting Diodes and Laser
   16. Semiconducting Polymer Composite Based Bipolar Transistors
   17. Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Sensor Development