Monday, July 2, 2012

Vinyl-Type Polynorbornenes with Pendant PCBM: A Novel Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells

Vinyl-Type Polynorbornenes with Pendant PCBM: A Novel Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells 

Maengsun Eo, Soohyun Lee, Myung Hwan Park, Min Hyung Lee,* Seunghyup Yoo,* Youngkyu Do*

In this work, PCBM functionalized norbornenes are "vinyl addition"-homo/co-polymerized via Pd (II) catalysis (resulting in a saturated polymer backbone).  While the authors claim to have developed a solution processable PCMB-containing series of polymers, these polymers seem to be only soluble in such solvents as ODCB, which isn't too exciting.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/marc.201200023/abstract



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