Effects of Φ-Stacking on the Absorption and Emission of Light by Conjugated Polymers and Oligomers

1999 ◽  
Vol 598 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. David Curtis ◽  
Amy Koren ◽  
Jeff W. Kampf
Keyword(s):  
Conjugated Polymers ◽  
Crystal Structures ◽  
Spectral Properties ◽  
Molecular Packing ◽  
Side Chains ◽  
Absorption And Emission ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Exciton Splitting

ABSTRACTWe have determined the crystal structures of regioregular HH-TT oligomers with a variety of side chains, including hydroxy-bearing side chains capable of H-bonding. The H-bonding orders the molecular packing into infinite 2-D sheets of Φ-stacks. In these H-bonded sheets, the Φ-stacks are insulated from each other by the aliphatic side chains and form one-dimensional “wires”. In contrast, the structures of similar oligomers that do not have H-bonded side-chains feature a structure in which neighboring Φ-stacks in are in contact (“shorted wires”). The effects of these differing molecular arrangements on the spectral properties and exciton splitting are discussed.

Electronic structure studies of conducting polymers by electron energy-loss spectroscopy

1996 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
pp. 160-161
Author(s):  
J. Fink
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Structure ◽  
Conducting Polymers ◽  
Conjugated Polymers ◽  
Electron Acceptors ◽  
Electron Donors ◽  
Light Emitting ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
New Class ◽  
Electrical Conductivities ◽  
Electron Energy Loss

Conducting polymers comprises a new class of materials achieving electrical conductivities which rival those of the best metals. The parent compounds (conjugated polymers) are quasi-one-dimensional semiconductors. These polymers can be doped by electron acceptors or electron donors. The prototype of these materials is polyacetylene (PA). There are various other conjugated polymers such as polyparaphenylene, polyphenylenevinylene, polypoyrrole or polythiophene. The doped systems, i.e. the conducting polymers, have intersting potential technological applications such as replacement of conventional metals in electronic shielding and antistatic equipment, rechargable batteries, and flexible light emitting diodes.Although these systems have been investigated almost 20 years, the electronic structure of the doped metallic systems is not clear and even the reason for the gap in undoped semiconducting systems is under discussion.

scholarly journals Building crystal structures of conjugated polymers through X‐ray diffraction and molecular modeling

SmartMat ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ze‐Fan Yao ◽  
Qi‐Yi Li ◽  
Hao‐Tian Wu ◽  
Yi‐Fan Ding ◽  
Zi‐Yuan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Modeling ◽  
Conjugated Polymers ◽  
Crystal Structures ◽  
X Ray Diffraction ◽  
X Ray

scholarly journals Infinitely many periodic solutions for a semilinear wave equation with x-dependent coefficients

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Hui Wei ◽  
Shuguan Ji
Keyword(s):  
Wave Equation ◽  
Periodic Solutions ◽  
Spectral Properties ◽  
Seismic Waves ◽  
Forced Vibrations ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Semilinear Wave Equation ◽  
Spatial Interval ◽  
Rational Multiple ◽  
Infinitely Many Periodic Solutions

This paper is devoted to the study of periodic (in time) solutions to an one-dimensional semilinear wave equation with x-dependent coefficients under various homogeneous boundary conditions. Such a model arises from the forced vibrations of a nonhomogeneous string and propagation of seismic waves in nonisotropic media. By combining variational methods with an approximation argument, we prove that there exist infinitely many periodic solutions whenever the period is a rational multiple of the length of the spatial interval. The proof is essentially based on the spectral properties of the wave operator with x-dependent coefficients.

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