title: Strategies for molecular designing of novel low-band-gap electrically conducting polymers.
abstract: Molecular designing of low-band-gap electrically conducting polymers continues to be a major challenge of the field of electrically conducting polymers. Such polymers are expected to show not only good intrinsic conductivity but also possibly a good transparency in the visible spectrum for their use as infrared sensors/detectors. Low-band-gap polymers can also be of great interest as new polymeric materials for nonlinear optics. Various routes presently followed to achieve this designing with special reference to the donor-acceptor polymers and important results obtained with this route are briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India. akbakhshi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: A K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Bakhshi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kaul
mesh_terms: D001709:Biotechnology / Q000379:methods*; D003517:Cyclopentanes / Q000737:chemistry*; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D008956:Models, Chemical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011108:Polymers
chemical_list: D003517:Cyclopentanes; D011108:Polymers