The invention relates to a novel composition comprising n-type organic semiconducting (OSC) polymers and p-type OSCs, to its use as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photo-detectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising the compositions.

A conductive composition including a conductive polymer (A), a water-soluble polymer (B) other than the conductive polymer (A), and a solvent (C), wherein a peak area ratio is 0.44 or less, which is determined based on results of analysis performed using a high performance liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer with respect to a test solution obtained by extracting the water-soluble polymer (B) from the conductive composition with n-butanol, and calculated by formula (I):

Area ratio=Y/(X+Y)

wherein X is a total peak area of an extracted ion chromatogram prepared with respect to ions derived from compounds having a molecular weight (M) of 600 or more from a total ion current chromatogram, Y is a total peak area of an extracted ion chromatogram prepared with respect to ions derived from compounds having a molecular weight (M) of less than 600 from the total ion current chromatogram.

A conductive composition includes a binding resin and a conductive polymer, wherein the conductive polymer has a quinoid structure and a benzoid structure, and wherein a ratio of a half-width value of a peak intensity corresponding to the benzoid structure to a half width of a peak intensity corresponding to the quinoid structure in Raman spectra obtained by Raman spectroscopy is 0.5 to 12.

A display device and a manufacturing method of the display device are provided. The display device includes a substrate; a pixel definition layer disposed on the substrate and having a plurality of pixel openings; a surface-active nanolayer disposed on a surface of the substrate and on a surface extending to the pixel definition layer, wherein the surface-active nanolayer covers a plurality of nanoparticles; and a light-emitting layer disposed in the plurality of pixel openings.

Provided is a dopant with which a conductor material having high electrical conductivity can be formed. The present disclosure relates to a dopant containing a radical cation represented by Formula (1) and a counter anion. In Formula (1), R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 may be the same or different, and each denotes a monovalent aromatic group or a group represented by Formula (r). at least one of R.sup.1 to R.sup.3 is a group represented by Formula (r), and n indicates the valence of the radical cation and is equal to the quantity (n) of nitrogen atoms in the formula. In Formula (r), Ar.sup.1, Ar.sup.2, and Ar.sup.3 may be the same or different, and each denotes a divalent aromatic group, and Ar.sup.4, Ar.sup.5, Ar.sup.6, and Ar.sup.7 may be the same or different, and each denotes a monovalent aromatic group optionally having a substituent represented by Formula (sb) below. Furthermore, m and n may be the same or different, and each represents an integer of 0 or greater.

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The present disclosure relates to a responsive polymer film, a method of preparing the responsive polymer film, and a sensor using the polymer film.

The invention relates to novel organic semiconducting compounds containing a polycyclic unit, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to compositions, polymer blends and formulations containing them, to the use of the compounds, compositions and polymer blends as organic semiconductors in, or for the preparation of, organic electronic (OE) devices, especially organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, perovskite-based solar cell (PSC) devices, organic photodetectors (OPD), organic field effect transistors (OFET) and organic light emitting diodes (OLED), and to OE, OPV, PSC, OPD, OFET and OLED devices comprising these compounds, compositions or polymer blends.

Described are conjugated polymers and conjugated polymer nanoparticles formed therefrom. The conjugated polymers and conjugated polymer nanoparticles have a maximum emission of light that occurs within a tissue transparent window of the electromagnetic spectrum. These emission properties are particle-size independent. The sizes of the conjugated nanoparticles are controlled by altering the concentration of the conjugated polymer used to make conjugated polymer nanoparticles. Also described are methods of making conjugated polymer nanoparticles that have larger sizes than have been traditionally reported, involving a modified reprecipitation approach. The conjugated polymers and/or conjugated polymer nanoparticles can be used as fluorescent probes in biological imaging.

A terminal functional side chain-substituted diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based terpolymer and a preparation method and use thereof is described herein. The terpolymer has the following structural formula:

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where R.sub.1 is a terminal siloxy-substituted swallow-tailed chain with 22 to 52 carbon atoms in total, and t.sub.1 and t.sub.2 each are an integer of 1 to 18; R.sub.2 is a semifluoroalkyl-substituted swallow-tailed chain with 12 to 60 carbon atoms in total and 10 to 46 fluorine atoms in total, t.sub.3 and t.sub.4 each are an integer of 1 to 16, and t.sub.5 and t.sub.6 each are an integer of 1 to 10; and Ar is any one selected from the group consisting of aryl, heteroaryl, substituent-containing aryl, and substituent-containing heteroaryl, and m and n each are an integer of 5 to 100.

An electrically conductive material includes an anionic polymer having a polymer backbone that is bonded to a plurality of terminal catechol moieties and a plurality of terminal sulfonate moieties. It also includes a cationic polymer including poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene).