Thesis (PhD student) for the PhotoFreeze project

Organic electronics are on the rise: conjugated polymers and small molecules can be found in devices ranging from organic solar cells, organic-field effect transistors or biosensors among many others. Synthetizing size-defined and atomically precise graphene fragments to reach perfectly tuned optoelectronic properties is of high interest to discover new organic functional materials and their design rules. Expanding the diversity of structure and properties of electron-deficient organic semiconductors (n-type) is a crucial challenge in the field. PhotoFreeze will explore the use of a light-frozen dynamic covalent reaction recently discovered in our group to prepare mono- and multidimensional n-type conjugated materials for application in organic electronics.

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