Presentation Year

2016

Depreciated Participant

Gregory PitchChemistry/ Environmental ScienceUndergraduate Student,Kiefer Bell-WilsonChemistryUndergraduate Student,Micah OjedaChemistryUndergraduate Student

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Short Description of your Research or Creative Project (700 characters or less)

An organic photovoltaic (OPV) is a polymeric or small molecule device that accepts photons and generates a current. Donor-acceptor molecules are used to create a heterojunction where an electronic environment dissociates excitons, which are bound excited electron-hole pairs. Charge dissociation is facilitated at the heterojunction by the interaction of an exciton on the donor molecule with the electronic configuration of the acceptor molecule. Thiophene derivatives have proven to be promising candidates for high efficiency donor molecules. Rational design and attempted synthesis of bis(diaryl)-thienothiadiazole compounds with pyridyl and pyrimidyl groups are reported.

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Yes

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157

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