A polymer includes a first repeating unit and a second repeating unit forming a main chain, the first repeating unit including at least one first conjugated system, and the second repeating unit including at least one second conjugated system and a multiple hydrogen bonding moiety represented by Chemical Formula 1.

An organic photovoltaic device comprising a polymer: ##STR00001##
and an acceptor. In this organic photovoltaic device, R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5 and R.sub.6 are independently selected from the group consisting of: a halogen, a substituted alkyl, an unsubstituted alkyl, a substituted aryl, an unsubstituted aryl, a substituted heteroaryl and an unsubstituted heteroaryl.

Embodiments of the invention relate to a composite film and a fabrication method thereof, a photoelectric element and a photoelectric apparatus. The fabrication method of the composite film includes: preparing a polyfluorene-based compound solution, wherein the polyfluorene-based compound solution includes polyfluorene or polyfluorene derivatives; preparing a quantum dot solution; mixing the polyfluorene-based compound solution and the quantum dot solution together to prepare a mixed solution; removing a solvent in the mixed solution to prepare the composite film.

Disclosed are conjugated polymers having desirable properties as semiconducting materials. Such polymers are cheap and easy to synthesize, and can exhibit good solubility and great solution processibility, and that enable highly efficient OPVs.

A composite material made of an amorphous (bi)metal sulfide nanoparticles directly linked, through coordinate covalent bonds, to a sulfur-containing polymer and a method of preparation of the composite material. The composite material can also be used as a catalyst for hydrogen production. Finally, a proton-exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyser and a photoelectrochemical cell, can both including the composite material.

Disclosed is a fluorine-substituted Pi(π)bridge selenide polymer acceptor material, its preparation and application. The selenide polymer acceptor material is named PYSe2FT and is synthesized by Knoevenagel condensation reaction and Still cross-coupling reaction; the material PYSe2FT takes a selenium-substituted core donor unit as a main structure, and combines a difluoro-substituted thiophene π-electronic connection unit, where the selenium-substituted core donor unit and the difluoro-substituted thiophene π-electronic connection unit can effectively regulate and control the molecular energy level, so that molecules generate good accumulation, thus making PYSe-2FT an excellent polymer acceptor material.

Polymers comprising at least one unit of formulae ##STR00001## and compounds of the formulae ##STR00002## wherein, in formulae 1, 1′, 2 and 2′ n is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 m is 0, 1, 2, 3 or 4 M1 and M2 are independently of each other an aromatic or heteroaromatic monocyclic or bicyclic ring system; X is at each occurrence selected from the group consisting of O, S, Se or Te, Q is at each occurrence selected from the group consisting of C, Si or Ge R is at each occurrence selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C.sub.1-100-alkyl, C.sub.2-100-alkenyl, C.sub.2-100-alkynyl, C.sub.5-12-cycloalkyl, C.sub.6-18-aryl, a 5 to 20 membered heteroaryl, C(O)—C.sub.1-100-alkyl, C(O)—C.sub.5-12-cycloalkyl and C(O)—OC.sub.1-100-alkyl. R.sup.2, R.sup.2′, R.sup.2″, R* are at each occurrence independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C.sub.1-30-alkyl, C.sub.2-30-alkenyl, C.sub.2-30-alkynyl, C.sub.5-12-cycloalkyl, C.sub.6-18-aryl, 5 to 20 membered heteroaryl, OR.sup.21, OC(O)—R.sup.21, C(O)—OR.sup.21, C(O)—R.sup.21, NR.sup.21R.sup.22, NR.sup.21—C(O)R.sup.22, C(O)—NR.sup.21R.sup.22, N[C(O)R.sup.21][C(O)R.sup.22], SR.sup.21, halogen, CN, SiR.sup.SisR.sup.SitR.sup.Siu and OH, L.sup.1 and L.sup.2 are independently from each other and at each occurrence selected from the group consisting of C.sub.6-30-arylene, 5 to 30 membered heteroarylene, ##STR00003##

A polymer containing at least one unit of formula

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is prepared by treating a compound of formula

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wherein Y.sup.2 is I, Br, Cl or O—S(O).sub.2CF.sub.3,
with an S-donor agent, in order to obtain the compound of formula

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wherein Y.sup.2 is as defined for the compound of formula (5).

Provided is a conductor material having high conductivity. The conductor material according to an embodiment of the present disclosure has a configuration in which a conjugated polymeric compound having an electron donating group containing a heteroatom in a side chain is doped with a dopant containing an anion selected from a nitrogen anion, a boron anion, a phosphorus anion and an antimony anion, and a counter cation. The anion is preferably an anion represented by Formula (1) below: where R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 are identical or different, and each represent an electron withdrawing group; and R.sup.1 and R.sup.2 may be bonded to each other to form a ring with an adjacent nitrogen atom.

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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.