Malika Jeffries-EL

TL;DR: Low polydispersity regioregular polythiophenes with number average molecular weights were cast under the same conditions from solution to form a series of FETs, indicating that conjugated backbones were oriented perpendicular to the nanofibril axes.

TL;DR: Using a modified Grignard metathesis (GRIM) reaction, a series of polymers have been synthesized bearing functional groups on one or both ends of the polymer as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, the Grignard metathesis polymerization (GRIM) method is used for the simple synthesis of regioregular polythiophenes bearing a wide variety of functional end groups.

TL;DR: In this article, a new method for the synthesis of poly(3-alkylthiophene) block copolymers using vinyl terminated regioregular poly( 3-alklythiophenes) as precursors via atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is described.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photophysical properties of nanocomposites of poly(3-hexylthiophene)−cadmium selenide (P3HT−CdSe) were synthesized by directly grafting vinyl-terminated P3HT onto [(4-bromophenyl)methyl]dioctylphosphine oxide (DOPO-Br)-functionalized CdSe QD surfaces via a mild palladium-catalyzed Heck coupling, thereby dispensing with the need for ligand exchange chemistry.