Polyacetylene comes full circle Synthesis of cyclic polyacetylene offers fresh take on classic semiconducting polymer. by Mark Peplow, special to C&EN ...

To describe a mobile defect in polyacetylene chains, Su, Schrieffer and Heeger formulated a model assuming two degenerate energy configurations that are characterized by two different topological ...

Star-Shaped Polymers with Helical Polyacetylene Arms. Comparison of Solution- and Solid-State Properties with Linear Helical Polyacetylenes. Journal: Macromolecules Published: 2024-11-05 ...

It has been a longtime cherished interest to synthesize polyacetylene (PA) with ultimate control over the conjugation length as well as the stereochemistry. Scientists from China now make it ...

A recent article published in Polymers demonstrated density functional theory (DFT)-based first-principle calculations to analyze the influence of inter-oligomer interactions on photoluminescence (PL) ...