This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. Organic conductive polymers and oligomers having extensive p-conjugation along their backbones are unique semiconducting materials that have demonstrated interesting transistor, photovoltaic, electroluminescent and display properties. The structural versatility coupled with easily tunable electronic properties of these low-band gap electro- and photoactive materials make them particularly attractive candidates as active components for the construction of minuscule molecular-scale electronic devices. Research efforts will be directed toward the molecular design, synthesis, physical characterization, and device test-structures study of a broad class of architecturally new functional organic materials that are of relevant interests in the burgeoning field of molecular electronics, optoelectronics, supramolecular self-assembly, and functional device fabrication.
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