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The first part of Semiconducting Polymer Composites describes the principles and concepts of semiconducting polymer composites in general, addressing electrical conductivity, energy alignment at interfaces, morphology, energy transfer, percolation theory and processing techniques.
List of contents
1. Solubility, Miscibility, and the Impact on Solid-State Morphology2. Nanoscale Morphological Characterization for Semiconductive Polymer Blends3. Energy Level Alignment at Semiconductive Polymer Interfaces: Correlating Electronic Energy Levels and Electrical Conductivity4. Energy and Charge Transfer5. Percolation Theory and Its Application in Electrically Conducting Materials6. Processing Technologies of Semiconducting Polymer Composite Thin Films for Photovoltaic Cell Applications7. Thin-Film Transistors Based on Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composites with Enhanced Charge Transport8. Semiconducting Organic Molecule/Polymer Composites for Thin-Film Transistors9. Enhanced Electrical Conductivity of Polythiophene/Insulating Polymer Composite and Its Morphological Requirement10. Intrinsically Conducting Polymers and Their Composites for Anticorrosion and Antistatic Applications11. Conjugated?Insulating Block Copolymers: Synthesis, Morphology, and Electronic Properties12. Fullerene/Conjugated Polymer Composite for the State-of-the-Art Polymer Solar Cells13. Semiconducting Nanocrystal/Conjugated Polymer Composites for Applications in Hybrid Polymer Solar Cells14. Conjugated Polymer Blends: Toward All-Polymer Solar Cells15. Conjugated Polymer Composites and Copolymers for Light-Emitting Diodes and Laser16. Semiconducting Polymer Composite Based Bipolar Transistors17. Nanostructured Conducting Polymers for Sensor Development
About the author
Xiaoniu Yang is presently an assistant director of the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry (CIAC), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
He is also the director of the Polymer Composites Engineering Laboratory of CAS. Having obtained his academic degrees from CIAC, he
spent a few years in Germany and the Netherlands before taking up his present appointment at CIAC. Professor Yang has authored more than 80 scientific publications, filed more than 20 patents and received the National Science Foundation Award for Distinguished
Young Scholars of China in 2009. He is also a committee member of the Applied Chemistry Division of the Chinese Chemical Society.
Summary
The first part of Semiconducting Polymer Composites describes the principles and concepts of semiconducting polymer composites in general, addressing electrical conductivity, energy alignment at interfaces, morphology, energy transfer, percolation theory and processing techniques. In later chapters, different types of polymer composites are discussed: mixtures of semiconducting and insulating or semiconducting and semiconducting components, respectively. These composites are suitable for a variety of applications that are presented in detail, including transistors and solar cells, sensors and detectors, diodes and lasers as well as anti-corrosive and anti-static surface coatings.
