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    A chemist is designing new polymer structures for use in plastic electronics. She is studying the relationship between polymer structures and their electronic, physical and optical properties. Her goal is to synthesize polymers that efficiently transport electrons, are stable at high temperatures, and can absorb photons, but without using harsh acids or high temperatures by making them soluble in organic solvents. If the polymers lack certain properties, her research group can do chemical restructuring to produce what's missing, unlike with silicon which has fixed properties. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and Iowa Power Fund to apply this work to solar cells and further fundamental understanding of how polymer structure impacts material properties.

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    A chemist is designing new polymer structures for use in plastic electronics. She is studying the relationship between polymer structures and their electronic, physical and optical properties. Her goal is to synthesize polymers that efficiently transport electrons, are stable at high temperatures, and can absorb photons, but without using harsh acids or high temperatures by making them soluble in organic solvents. If the polymers lack certain properties, her research group can do chemical restructuring to produce what's missing, unlike with silicon which has fixed properties. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and Iowa Power Fund to apply this work to solar cells and further fundamental understanding of how polymer structure impacts material properties.

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    A chemist is designing new polymer structures for use in plastic electronics. She is studying the relationship between polymer structures and their electronic, physical and optical properties. Her goal is to synthesize polymers that efficiently transport electrons, are stable at high temperatures, and can absorb photons, but without using harsh acids or high temperatures by making them soluble in organic solvents. If the polymers lack certain properties, her research group can do chemical restructuring to produce what's missing, unlike with silicon which has fixed properties. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and Iowa Power Fund to apply this work to solar cells and further fundamental understanding of how polymer structure impacts material properties.

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    A chemist is designing new polymer structures for use in plastic electronics. She is studying the relationship between polymer structures and their electronic, physical and optical properties. Her goal is to synthesize polymers that efficiently transport electrons, are stable at high temperatures, and can absorb photons, but without using harsh acids or high temperatures by making them soluble in organic solvents. If the polymers lack certain properties, her research group can do chemical restructuring to produce what's missing, unlike with silicon which has fixed properties. She has received funding from the National Science Foundation and Iowa Power Fund to apply this work to solar cells and further fundamental understanding of how polymer structure impacts material properties.

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    Chemist designs new polymer structures for

    use as 'plastic electronics'


    Those tricks improve the properties of certain organic polymers that mimic the properties of
    traditional inorganic semiconductors and could make the polymers very useful in organic
    solar cells, light-emitting diodes and thin-film transistors.
    Conductive polymers date back to the late 1970s when researchers Alan Heeger, Alan
    MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa discovered that plastics, with certain arrangements of
    atoms, could conduct electricity. The three were awarded the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    for the discovery.
    Jeffries-EL, an Iowa State assistant professor of chemistry, is working with a post-doctoral
    researcher and nine doctoral students to move the field forward by studying the relationship
    between polymer structures and the electronic, physical and optical properties of the
    materials. They're also looking for ways to synthesize the polymers without the use of harsh
    acids and temperatures by making them soluble in organic solvents.
    The building blocks of their work are a variety of benzobisazoles, molecules well suited for
    electrical applications because they efficiently transport electrons, are stable at high
    temperatures and can absorb photons.
    And if the polymers are lacking in any of those properties, Jeffries-EL and her research group
    can do some chemical restructuring.
    "With these polymers, if you don't have the properties you need, you can go back and change
    the wheel," Jeffries-EL said. "You can change the chemical synthesis and produce what's
    missing."
    That, she said, doesn't work with silicon and other inorganic materials for semiconductors:
    "Silicon is silicon. Elements are constant."
    The National Science Foundation is supporting Jeffries-EL's polymer research with a fiveyear, $486,250 Faculty Early Career Development grant. She also has support from the Iowa
    Power Fund (a state program that supports energy innovation and independence) to apply
    organic semiconductor technology to solar cells.
    The research group is seeing some results, including peer-reviewed papers over the past two
    years in Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Macromolecules, the Journal of Polymer
    Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, and the Journal of Organic Chemistry.

    "This research is really about fundamental science," Jeffries-EL said. "We're studying the
    relationships between structure and material properties. Once we have a polymer with a
    certain set of properties, what can we do?"
    She and her research group are turning to the molecules for answers.
    "In order to realize the full potential of these materials, they must be engineered at the
    molecular level, allowing for optimization of materials properties, leading to enhanced
    performance in a variety of applications," Jeffries-EL wrote in a research summary. "As an
    organic chemist, my approach to materials begins with small molecules."

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