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Advances in Fluorescent Polymers, Conjugated Polymers and Conducting Polymers

A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Networks".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 3675

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Dr. Young-Gi Kim

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Energy and Organic Electronics Lab, Department of Chemistry, Delaware State University, DuPont Highway, Dover, DE 19901, USA
Interests: polymers; conjugated polymers; fluorecent polymers; conductive polymers; variable band gap polymers; biopolymers; polymer electrolyres; polymer electrodes; polymer coates; organic chemistry; nanomaterials; carbon materials; metal complexes; energy storage and conversion; solar cells; supercapacitors; LEDs; sensors; molecualr assembly; synthesis and characterization of polymers; organic materials; nanomaterials and metal complexes
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Dear Colleagues,

It is my honor to invite your contributions to the Special Issue of the journal Polymers, entitled “Advances in Fluorescent Polymers, Conjugated Polymers, and Conducting Polymers”. This Special Issue aims to contribute to advancing and sharing the science and technology of innovative polymer materials, ranging from basic sciences to engineering at a large scale. The issue welcomes your contributions in innovation including design, synthesis, fabrication, characterization, and application of advanced polymer materials: fluorescent polymers, conjugated polymers, and conducting polymers. You are specially encouraged to submit a manuscript if the specialty area is aligned with advancing energy, optoelectronics, biomedical, nanotechnology, military, and smart window/building technology of innovative polymer materials.

Dr. Young-Gi Kim
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • fluorescent polymers
  • conjugated polymers
  • conducting polymers
  • electroactive polymers
  • polymer synthesis
  • polymer characterization
  • PLED
  • organic solar cells
  • energy conversion
  • energy storage
  • battery
  • supercapacitors
  • electrochromic devices
  • polymer lasers
  • chemosensors
  • biosensors
  • fluorescence amplified sensor
  • molecular assembly
  • biomedical
  • FETs
  • NVMs
  • smart windows
  • anti-COVID-19
  • anticorrosion
  • antibacterial
  • antivirus
  • self-healing skins
  • polymer coatings
  • photoinduced charge transport
  • near IR absorption
  • charge separation
  • electrical conducting
  • thermal conducting
  • greenhouse
  • smart agriculture
  • smart window
  • smart building
  • 3D printing
  • agrochemical

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Synthesis and Characterization of the Donor-Acceptor Conjugated Polymer PBDB-T Implementing Group IV Element Germanium
by Wafaa H. Abousamra, Destinee Thomas, Dan Yang, Shahidul M. Islam, Cherese Winstead and Young-Gi Kim
Polymers 2023, 15(11), 2429; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15112429 - 23 May 2023
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Here, we synthesized and characterized a novel two-dimensional (2D) conjugated electron donor–acceptor (D-A) copolymer (PBDB-T-Ge), wherein the substituent of triethyl germanium was added to the electron donor unit of the polymer. The Turbo–Grignard reaction was used to implement the group IV element into [...] Read more.
Here, we synthesized and characterized a novel two-dimensional (2D) conjugated electron donor–acceptor (D-A) copolymer (PBDB-T-Ge), wherein the substituent of triethyl germanium was added to the electron donor unit of the polymer. The Turbo–Grignard reaction was used to implement the group IV element into the polymer, resulting in a yield of 86%. This corresponding polymer, PBDB-T-Ge, exhibited a down-shift in the highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) level to −5.45 eV while the lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) level was −3.64 eV. The peaks in UV-Vis absorption and the PL emission of PBDB-T-Ge were observed at 484 nm and 615 nm, respectively. Full article
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Synthesis of a Dual-Color Fluorescent Dendrimer for Diagnosis of Cancer Metastasis in Lymph Nodes
by Chie Kojima and Kento Nagai
Polymers 2022, 14(20), 4314; https://doi.org/10.3390/polym14204314 - 14 Oct 2022
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Detection of cancer metastasis spread in lymph nodes is important in cancer diagnosis. In this study, a fluorescence imaging probe was designed for the detection of both lymph node and tumor cells using always-ON and activatable fluorescence probes with different colors. Rhodamine B [...] Read more.
Detection of cancer metastasis spread in lymph nodes is important in cancer diagnosis. In this study, a fluorescence imaging probe was designed for the detection of both lymph node and tumor cells using always-ON and activatable fluorescence probes with different colors. Rhodamine B (Rho), a matrix metalloproteinase−2 (MMP−2)-responsive green fluorescence probe, and a tumor-homing peptide were conjugated to a carboxy-terminal dendrimer that readily accumulates in lymph nodes. The activatable green fluorescence signal increased in the presence of MMP−2, which is secreted by tumor cells. Both the always-ON Rho signal and the activatable green fluorescence signal were observed from tumor cells, but only the weak always-ON Rho signal was from immune cells. Thus, this type of dendrimer may be useful for non-invasive imaging to diagnose cancer metastasis in lymph nodes. Full article
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