title: Thiazole-based organic semiconductors for organic electronics.
abstract: Over the past two decades, organic semiconductors have been the subject of intensive academic and commercial interests. Thiazole is a common electron-accepting heterocycle due to electron-withdrawing nitrogen of imine (C=N), several moieties based on thiazole have been widely introduced into organic semiconductors, and yielded high performance in organic electronic devices. This article reviews recent developments in the area of thiazole-based organic semiconductors, particularly thiazole, bithiazole, thiazolothiazole and benzobisthiazole-based small molecules and polymers, for applications in organic field-effect transistors, solar cells and light-emitting diodes. The remaining problems and challenges, and the key research direction in near future are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Key Laboratory of Organic Solids, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P. R. China.
authors.forename: Yuze
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Haijun
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Yongfang
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Xiaowei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhan
mesh_terms: D003460:Crystallization; D004583:Electrons; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012666:Semiconductors; D012993:Solar Energy; D013844:Thiazoles / Q000737:chemistry*; D014173:Transistors, Electronic
chemical_list: D011108:Polymers; D013844:Thiazoles