This invention relates to a polybenzoxazine precursor and a method of preparing the same, and more particularly, to a polybenzoxazine precursor which includes benzoxazine obtained by reacting a phenol novolak resin with an aldehyde compound and allylamine and diaminodiphenylmethane as an amine compound, and to a method of preparing the same. The polybenzoxazine precursor may serve to prepare a hardened material having excellent thermal and electrical characteristics and dimensional stability. Accordingly, the polybenzoxazine precursor may be available for use in a copper clad laminate, a semiconductor encapsulant, a printed circuit board, an adhesive, a paint, and a mold.

Disclosed are an organic semiconductor thin film, a manufacturing method thereof, and a thin film transistor and an electronic device including the organic semiconductor thin film. The organic semiconductor thin film includes a matrix. The matrix includes an elastomer and nanoconfined polymer structures embedded in the matrix. The nanoconfined polymer structures form a polymer network. The nanoconfined polymer structures include a conjugation semiconductor polymer. The conjugation semiconductor polymer includes a repeating unit having at least one conjugation system in its main chain. The nanoconfined polymer structures are present in an upper surface layer and a lower surface layer of the organic semiconductor thin film respectively.

The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more diindeno-thieno[3,2-b]thiophene based polycyclic repeating units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.

A method for preparing a magnetic chain structure is provided. The method comprises providing a plurality of magnetic particles; dispersing the plurality of magnetic particles in a solution comprising a dopamine-based material to form a reaction mixture; applying a magnetic field across the reaction mixture to align the magnetic particles in the reaction mixture; and polymerizing the dopamine-based material on the aligned magnetic particles to obtain the magnetic chain structure. A magnetic chain structure prepared by the method is also provided.

Conjugated donor-acceptor copolymers comprising a donor and an acceptor, wherein the acceptor comprises a fluorophenylene. Organic Field Effect Transistors (OFETs) comprising the conjugated donor-acceptor copolymers are also disclosed.

A polymer compound comprising a structural unit represented by the formula (1): ##STR00001##
wherein Ring A and Ring B represent each independently a heterocyclic ring, and the heterocyclic ring may have a substituent, Ring C represents an aromatic hydrocarbon ring obtained by condensing two or more benzene rings, the aromatic hydrocarbon ring has at least one of an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an amino group or a hydroxyl group, and these groups may have a substituent, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 represent each independently a group represented by the formula (Z-1), a group represented by the formula (Z-2), a group represented by the formula (Z-3), a group represented by the formula (Z-4) or a group represented by the formula (Z-5), ##STR00002##
wherein R represents an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an alkylthio group, an aryl group or a mono-valent heterocyclic group, and these groups may have a substituent, and when there exist a plurality of R, these may be the same or different.

An organic compound, a donor-acceptor conjugated polymer, a formulation and a thin film, wherein a solution of the donor-acceptor conjugated polymer exhibits a peak optical absorption spectrum red shift of at least 100 nm when the donor-acceptor conjugated polymer solution is cooled from 140° C. to room temperature.

An organic solar cell is provided. The organic solar cell includes a photoactive layer in which a low molecular weight conjugated compound as a first organic semiconductor material is mixed with an appropriate amount of a second organic semiconductor material. The first organic semiconductor material includes both electron donors and electron acceptors. The presence of the electron donors and the electron acceptors in the first organic semiconductor material improves the morphology of the photoactive layer, leading to high efficiency of the organic solar cell.

The present specification provides a copolymer and an organic solar cell including the same.

The present invention is generally directed to the field of organic semiconductor material. It provides a donor-acceptor conjugated polymer containing 3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene ring as a side chain and a photodetector device containing the same.