Application of terpyridyl ligands to tune the optical and electrochemical properties of a conducting polymer

• Main Authors: Lisak, Grzegorz, Wagner, Klaudia, Barnsley, Jonathan E., Veksha, Andrei, Huff, Gregory, Elliott, Anastasia B. S., Wagner, Paweł, Gordon, Keith C., Bobacka, Johan, Wallace, Gordon G., Ivaska, Ari, Officer, David L.
• Other Authors: School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Polymers; Engineering::Environmental engineering; Terpyridyl Ligands
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106354; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49582; http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C8RA05333B
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

We present a simple and effective way of using metal and metal–ligand modifications to tune the electrochemical and optical properties of conducting polymers. To that end, a polyterthiophene functionalized with terpyridine moieties was synthesized and then the resulting film's surface or bulk w...