The use of Chiral Conjugated Polymers in Material Science

About the talk

How chirality built into conjugated polymers and non-fullerene acceptors can be put to work in materials science: from the design of helicene-based monomers, to circularly polarised light emission, to the first organic solar cells whose performance improves because of donor-polymer chirality.

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Papers behind the talk

• Rational design of new conjugated polymers with main chain chirality for efficient optoelectronic devices: carbo[6]helicene and indacenodithiophene copolymers as model compounds

  First authorHighlightC. Gedeon, N. Del Rio, F. Furlan, A. Taddeucci, N. Vanthuyne, V. G. Gregoriou, M. J. Fuchter, G. Siligardi, N. Gasparini, J. Crassous, C. L. Chochos. Adv. Mater. 2024, 36, 2314337

  doi:10.1002/adma.202314337

• Circularly polarized luminescence from benzodithiophene and indacenodithiophene oligomers alternated with helicenes as chiral inducers

  First authorC. Gedeon, N. Del Rio, D. Tabor, J. Grzybowski, S. Cadeddu, N. Vanthuyne, V. G. Gregoriou, A. Gapin, C. Brochon, M. Srebro-Hooper, C. L. Chochos, J. Crassous. ACS Appl. Opt. Mater. 2025, 3, 2207–2220

  doi:10.1021/acsaom.5c00299

• The spin thermoelectric effect in nonmagnetic chiral materials

  S. Reiss, C. Gedeon, O. Golan, O. Vardi, D. Merhav, C. L. Chochos, S. Yochelis, D. H. Waldeck, J. Fransson, J. Crassous, R. Naaman, Y. Paltiel. J. Mater. Chem. A 2026, 14, 26220–26227

  doi:10.1039/d6ta01920j

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