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Highly Conjugated Polymers and Molecules for Photonics

For the past twenty years, interest in organic polymers with high degrees of conjugation has grown exponentially. Part of this has been basic interest in the electronic structure of systems with highly mobile p-electrons, but much of the recent interest has been in potential applications of such molecules. Among the uses of such polymers that are of interest to the Lahti group are:

  • Chemical sensor and biosensor behavior of light emitting and conducting organic-based materials
  • Conducting materials
  • Nonlinear optical materials for information transmission media
  • Light emitting diode (LED) materials for flexible flat screen displays
  • Photoconductivity for photocopying applications
  • Optical switching for use as optical (rather than magnetic) information storage and computer memory materials.
  • Energy gathering and storage materials

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