Helping COPs exploit their full potential on the optoelectronics beat
"Viñas’s research produced impressive results. She demonstrated a simple and efficient way to achieve tuning by focusing on the accompanying cations of the doping anions, which determine the stoichiometries of the COPs that, in turn, influence the electrochemical properties. This outcome was featured on the cover of ‘Chemistry – A European Journal’.
While investigating the intended use of metallacarboranes as tuneable doping anions, Viñas also serendipitously discovered their photoredox catalytic property and apparent thermoelectrical capacity. Experimental and computational studies of metallacarboranes led to papers regarding photoluminescence in bivalent and trivalent metallacarboranes."
“It was exciting to find that, after so many years of COPs research, something as trivial as the accompanying cation – usually considered innocent, or having a clear and predictable oxidation state – was able to modify the stoichiometry of the conducting polymer and alter its physicochemical properties,” says Viñas.
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Figure: Cover of "Chemistry - A Eurpean Journal" from the article "Are the Accompanying Cations of Doping Anions Influential in Conducting Organic Polymers? The Case of the Popular PEDOT" (Chem. Eur. J. 63/2019) by Isabel Fuentes, María José Mostazo‐López , Zsolt Kelemen, Vicente Compañ, Andreu Andrio, Emilia Morallón, Diego Cazorla‐Amorós, Clara Viñas and Francesc Teixidor. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201904331.
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