Semiconducting Polymer Composites: Principles, Morphologies, Properties and Applications

• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 550
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Polymer composites made functional and customizable: new materials for real-life applications 

The academic and industrial interest in semiconducting polymer composites is rising, owing to the unique combination of easy and low-cost processability and versatility of these materials

This comprehensive book provides broad coverage addressing the principles of semiconducting polymer blends such as morphology, energetics and processing as well as the wide range of applications in optics, electronics and optoelectronics.

Fostering interdisciplinary research, the book combines the fields of polymer composites and functional polymers, allowing for cross-fertilization between these two scientific communities.

Content:
Chapter 1 Solubility, Miscibility, and the Impact on Solid?State Morphology (pages 1–38): Florian Machui and Christoph J. Brabec
Chapter 2 Nanoscale Morphological Characterization for Semiconductive Polymer Blends (pages 39–64): Joachim Loos
Chapter 3 Energy Level Alignment at Semiconductive Polymer Interfaces: Correlating Electronic Energy Levels and Electrical Conductivity (pages 65–106): Nobuo Ueno
Chapter 4 Energy and Charge Transfer (pages 107–143): Ralf Mauer, Ian A. Howard and Frederic Laquai
Chapter 5 Percolation Theory and Its Application in Electrically Conducting Materials (pages 145–169): Isaac Balberg
Chapter 6 Processing Technologies of Semiconducting Polymer Composite Thin Films for Photovoltaic Cell Applications (pages 171–190): Hui Joon Park and L. Jay Guo
Chapter 7 Thin?Film Transistors Based on Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composites with Enhanced Charge Transport (pages 191–217): Longzhen Qiu, Xiaohong Wang and Kilwon Cho
Chapter 8 Semiconducting Organic Molecule/Polymer Composites for Thin?Film Transistors (pages 219–249): Jeremy N. Smith, John G. Labram and Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Chapter 9 Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composite and Its Morphological Requirement (pages 251–268): Guanghao Lu and Prof. Xiaoniu Yang
Chapter 10 Intrinsically Conducting Polymers and Their Composites for Anticorrosion and Antistatic Applications (pages 269–298): Yingping Li and Xianhong Wang
Chapter 11 Conjugated–Insulating Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Electronic Properties (pages 299–330): Dahlia Haynes, Mihaela C. Stefan and Richard D. McCullough
Chapter 12 Fullerene/Conjugated Polymer Composite for the State?of?the?Art Polymer Solar Cells (pages 331–360): Wanli Ma
Chapter 13 Semiconducting Nanocrystal/Conjugated Polymer Composites for Applications in Hybrid Polymer Solar Cells (pages 361–397): Michael Krueger, Michael Eck, Yunfei Zhou and Frank?Stefan Riehle
Chapter 14 Conjugated Polymer Blends: Toward All?Polymer Solar Cells (pages 399–425): Christopher R. McNeill
Chapter 15 Conjugated Polymer Composites and Copolymers for Light?Emitting Diodes and Laser (pages 427–455): Thien Phap Nguyen and Pascale Jolinat
Chapter 16 Semiconducting Polymer Composite Based Bipolar Transistors (pages 457–487): Claudia Piliego, Krisztina Szendrei and Maria Antonietta Loi
Chapter 17 Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Sensor Development (pages 489–521): Yen Wei, Meixiang Wan, Ten?Chin Wen, Tang?Kuei Chang, Gaoquan Shi, Hongxu Qi, Lei Tao, Ester Segal and Moshe Narkis