Plastic electronics face severely challenges in terms of stability, reliability, besides device performances from inorganic electronics that make breakthrough in terms of large-area, flexible and solution-processed counterparts, although the great progresses have been achieved in the last decades. It is emergent to design conjugated nanopolymer semiconductors with obvious advantage of robust stability, solvent-independent, strongly mechanical properties over conventional conjugated polymers[1]. In this backgrounds, we proposed a kind of soluble nanopolymer semiconductors, called as poly(grid), serving as the next-generation polymer materials for mechanically stable, wearable, e-textile devices, chips and integrated systems. Herein, we make a proof-of-concept poly(grid) using complex diaryfluorenes with a geometric shape of square “口” as monomer backbones via a Friedel-Craft Bottom-up approach that set up by XIE-HUANG group [2-4].
1. Xie, L. H.; Yang, S. H.; Lin, J. Y.; Yi, M. D.; Huang, W., Fluorene-based macromolecular nanostructures and nanomaterials for organic (opto)electronics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society a-Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences 2013, 371 (2000), 20120337.
2. Xie, L. H.; Hou, X. Y.; Hua, Y. R.; Tang, C.; Liu, F.; Fan, Q. L.; Huang, W., Facile synthesis of complicated 9,9-diarylfluorenes based on BF3 center dot Et2O-mediated Friedel-Crafts reaction. Org. Lett. 2006, 8 (17), 3701-3704.
3. Zhang, G. W.; Wang, L.; Xie, L. H.; Hou, X. Y.; Liu, Z. D.; Huang, W., Diarylfluorene-Based Shape-Persistent Organic Nanomolecular Frameworks via Iterative Friedel-Crafts Protocol toward Multicomponent Organic Semiconductors.
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4. Wang, L.; Zhang, G.-W.; Ou, C.-J.; Xie, L.-H.; Lin, J.-Y.; Liu, Y.-Y.; Huang, W., Friedel–Crafts Bottom-up Synthesis of Fluorene-Based Soluble Luminescent Organic Nanogrids. Org. Lett. 2014, 16 (6), 1748-1751.