A team of CCI researchers led by David Vanden Bout (UT-Austin) and Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University) have recently made important advances toward the strategic design of conjugated polymers with controlled optoelectronic properties. In a paper published in ACS Nano, the CCI team used a controlled solvent vapor annealing process to assemble single chains of phenylene-vinylene ... Read More

The CCI partners with the University of Texas - Pan American to offer hands-on instrument training to undergraduate students. ... Read More

Conjugated polymers continue to attract much attention owing to their potential use in low cost, plastic electronic devices such as OLEDs, photovoltaics, and field effect transistors. Toward this end, understanding the influence of the polymers’ morphology on the electronic properties and long term stability of such devices is critical. In particular, discerning how the structure ... Read More