Preparation and Thermoelectric Properties Study of Bipyridine-Containing Polyfluorene Derivative/SWCNT Composites

Polymer/inorganic thermoelectric composites have witnessed rapid progress in recent years, but most of the studies have focused on the traditional conducting polymers. The limited structures of traditional conducting polymers restrain the development of organic thermoelectric composites. Herein, we report the preparation and thermoelectric properties of a series of composites films based on SWCNTs and bipyridine-containing polyfluorene derivatives. The value of the power factor around 12 μW m−1 K−2 was achieved for the composite F8bpy/SWCNTs with a mass ratio of 50/50, and the maximum value of 62.3 μW m−1 K−2 was obtained when the mass ratio reached 10/90. Moreover, taking advantage of the bipyridine unit could chelate various kinds of metal ions to form polymer complexes. The enhanced power factor of 87.3 μW m−1 K−2 was obtained for composite F8bpy-Ni/SWCNTs with a mass ratio of 50/50. Finally, the thermoelectric properties of the bipyridine-containing polyfluorene derivative/SWCNT composites were conveniently tuned by chelating with different metal ions.

“Receptor free” inner filter effect based universal sensors for nitroexplosive picric acid using two polyfluorene derivatives in the solution and solid states

“Receptor free” and “interaction free” detection of nitroexplosive PA at remarkably low limit of detection (LOD) values of 110 nM and 219 nM using two new fluorescent polymers via the inner filter effect mechanism.

Achieving highly efficient blue light-emitting polymers by incorporating a styrylarylene amine unit

Polyfluorene derivatives containing a styrylarylene amine unit were developed with a luminous efficiency of over 8.0 cd A−1 and CIE of (015, 0.14).