Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Using automated synthesis to understand the role of side chains on molecular charge transport

  • Songsong Li,
  • Edward R. Jira,
  • Nicholas H. Angello,
  • Jialing Li,
  • Hao Yu,
  • Jeffrey S. Moore,
  • Ying Diao,
  • Martin D. Burke,
  • Charles M. Schroeder

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29796-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Development of organic electronic materials relies on understanding structure-function relationships in conjugated polymers but the synthetic workload to make large numbers of new compounds presents a practical barrier to properly survey conjugated organic derivatives. Here, the authors use automated synthesis to prepare a library of conjugated oligomers with systematically varied side chain composition followed by single-molecule characterization of charge transport.