Many semiconducting polymers are luminescent. If they are phosphorescent (typically with a heavy metal dopant), they may be useful materials for triplet harvesting.
However, some polymers, such as poly(3-thienylene-vinylene) are not luminsecent. Are there applications where this is an advantage? Why would it be and how do they work?
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I guess there has to be many applications for such systems. You should start testing their electrochromic properties. I expect some red to light blue transitions with such systems. I have seen other researchers functionalize them with 6-10 membered rings and use them as sensors for various ions and even explosives.
If it can self assemble in a controlled manner, it can be used for sensing applications. As it has conductivity, it can be utilised in gas sensing. Lot of reports are there using conducting polymers as gas sensors by monitoring their conductivity variation in the presence or absence of gases like ammonia, carbon dioxide etc
Thank you! We still need to run a lot of tests. But is there anything where the non-luminescence is actually desirable?
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