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Synfacts 2008(6): 0582-0582  
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1067058
Synthesis of Materials and Unnatural Products
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Nanostructured Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes

Contributor(s): Timothy M. Swager, Brett VanVeller
Q. Niu, Y. Zhou, L. Wang, J. Peng, J. Wang, J. Pei, Y. Cao
South China University of Technology, Guangzhou and Peking University, P. R. of China
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21 May 2008 (online)

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Significance

There has been extensive research devoted to the improvement of polymer light-emitting diodes (PLED) by the addition of nanostructures to improve charge transport and overall efficiency within the device. Recently this has involved the use of inorganic nanoparticles; however, these often require non-trivial processing steps. Molecules similar to 1 have been shown to self-assemble into nanowires (J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 12386), and the authors demonstrate that uniformly distributed nanowires of 1 can be obtained within the device through in situ self-assembly. This facile, solution-processed, nanostructured PLED shows an increased performance by a factor of about two.