Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Post-polymerisation functionalisation of conjugated polymer backbones and its application in multi-functional emissive nanoparticles

  • Adam Creamer,
  • Christopher S. Wood,
  • Philip D. Howes,
  • Abby Casey,
  • Shengyu Cong,
  • Adam V. Marsh,
  • Robert Godin,
  • Julianna Panidi,
  • Thomas D. Anthopoulos,
  • Claire H. Burgess,
  • Tingman Wu,
  • Zhuping Fei,
  • Iain Hamilton,
  • Martyn A. McLachlan,
  • Molly M. Stevens,
  • Martin Heeney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05381-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Functionalisation of conjugated polymers is essential for performance in many applications, yet there are limited approaches to achieve this. Here the authors developed a method for the direct postpolymerisation modification of the aromatic backbone of conjugated polymers and used them to create multifunctional semiconducting nanoparticles.