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Among the many synthetic challenges in electroactive polymers we consider here those which we believe are the most important: (a) to prepare polymers which have a very small semiconductor bandgap and (b) to prepare polymers which are soluble and hence fabricable. In this presentation we describe our efforts as well as those of others to achieve these goals.
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In references 7 and 8 it is claimed that polymer 3 is blue with a A,max of 692nm and a bandgap of 810nm (1.53 eV). The pure polymer is actually off white with A,max of 332nm and a hint of absorption in the 700- 800nm region (cf Fig. 2), indicating a small degree of unsaturation. However, both pure and impure polymers show qualitatively the same electronic spectroscopy behavior when brominated (the former less dramatically so than the latter).
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Wudl, F., Ikenoue, Y., Patil, A.O. (1988). Synthesis of Certain Specific Electroactive Polymers. In: Prasad, P.N., Ulrich, D.R. (eds) Nonlinear Optical and Electroactive Polymers. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0953-6_24
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