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Klaus Muellen

Chen Li

Arno Boehm

Neil Gregory Pschirer

Henrike Wonneberger

Robert Send

Ingmar Bruder

Martin Koenemann

Xinliang Feng

Helmut Reichelt

Thomas Gessner

Jianqiang Qu

Long Chen

Peter Erk

Marcel Kastler

Manuel Hamburger

Silke Annika Koehler

Glauco Battagliarin

Matthias Georg Schwab

Willi Helfer

Markus Klapper

Christopher Kohl

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Pascal Ruffieux

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Dirk Beckmann

Janusz Schinke

Yulian Zagranyarski

Peter Blaschka

Flavio Luiz Benedito

Felix Eickemeyer

Ralph Rieger

Gero Nordmann

Martin Baumgarten

Alfred Kuhn

Dirk Hammel

Erik Reuther

Heribert Quante

Andreas Herrmann

Anders Hagfeldt

Tomas Edvinsson

Malte Jesper

Yuri Avlasevic

Peter Schlichting

Milan Alt

Ruediger Sens

Karl Siemensmeyer

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Stefan Becker

Michael Fischer

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Friedrich-Wilhelm Raulfs

Walter Maechtle

Jochen Baurmeister

Torsten Freund

Torben Adermann

Sabine Kielhorn-Bayer

Jan Schoeneboom

Arno Bohm

Ulrike Schloesser

Mathias Dueggeli

Jurgen Koch

Harutyun Hanciogullari

Paul Delavier

Lorenz Siggel

Wojciech Pisula

Nobuyoshi Koshino

Lukas Friedrich Doessel

Peter Rossmanith

Stefan Hoefle

Qi Su

Ulrich Lemmer

Takahiro Ikeda

Alexander Colsmann

Takanori Wakebe

Ulrike Rohr

Akimitsu Narita

Marius Kuhn

Florian Schluetter

Ruili Liu

Milan Kivala

Ralph Reiger

Bo Yang

Miaoyin Liu

Tim Dumslaff

Jan Schoenbeboom

Jia Liu

Fabian Nolde

Sibylle Mueller

Peng Gao

Carlos Sanchez-Sanchez

Hoi Nok Tsao

Junzhi Liu

Jakob Jacek Wudarczyk

The present invention relates to a cyclic amine surface modifier. In addition the present invention also relates to organic electronic devices comprising such cyclic amine surface modifier.

Cyclic amine surface modifier and organic electronic devices comprising such cyclic amine surface modifier

The invention relates to new conjugated semiconducting polymers containing thermally cleavable side groups. The thermally cleavable side groups are selected from among carbonate groups and carbamate groups. By thermally cleaving side groups, the solubility or the polymers can be reduced in a targeted manner. The polymers are used as semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices, organic photodetectors (OPDs), organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and organic field effect transistors (OFETs).

Conjugated polymers

Provided is a 4-oxoquinoline compounds of the formula (I) (I) wherein A is selected from diradicals of the formulae (A.1), (A.2), (A.3), (A.4), (A.5) and (A.6), (A.1) (A.2) (A.3) (A.4) (A.5) (A.6) wherein R, R, R, R, R, if present R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, R, Rand Rare as defined in the claims and in the description. Also provided is a method for their preparation and their use. 

4-oxoquinoline compounds

To provide nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds with excellent oxygen reduction activity, metal complexes containing them, and catalysts and electrodes employing the same, the present invention provides an aromatic compound satisfying the following conditions (a) and (b):

Nitrogen-containing aromatic compounds and metal complexes

Provided are graphene nanoribbons with controlled zig-zag edge and cove edge configuration and methods for preparing such graphene nanoribbons. The nanoribbons are selected from the following formulae. 

Graphene nanoribbons with controlled zig-zag edge and cove edge configuration

The present invention relates to a methoxyaryl surface modifier. In addition the present invention also relates to organic electronic devices comprising such methoxyaryl surface modifier.

Methoxyaryl surface modifier and organic electronic devices comprising such methoxyaryl surface modifier

A polymer containing at least one unit of formula is prepared by treating a compound of formula wherein Yis I, Br, Cl or O&#x2014;S(O)CF,with an S-donor agent, in order to obtain the compound of formula wherein Yis as defined for the compound of formula (5).

Preparation of polymers comprising at least one benzo[c][1,2,5]thiadiazol-5,6-dicarbonitrile-unit

The present invention relates to a segmented graphene nanoribbon, comprising at least two different graphene segments covalently linked to each other, each graphene segment having a monodisperse segment width, wherein the segment width of at least one of said graphene segments is 4 nm or less and to a method for preparing it by polymerizing at least one polycyclic aromatic monomer compound and/or at least one oligo phenylene aromatic hydrocarbon monomer compound to form at least one polymer and by at least partially cyclodehydrogenating the one or more polymer.

Segmented graphene nanoribbons

The present invention relates to a graphene nanoribbon, comprising a repeating unit which comprises at least one modification, wherein the modification is selected from a heteroatomic substitution, a vacancy, a sphybridization, a Stone-Wales defect, an inverse Stone-Wales defect, a hexagonal sphybridized carbon network ring size modification, and any combination thereof.

Graphene nanoribbons with controlled modifications

The present invention provides the compounds of formulae (3) and (1) wherein n is 0 or 1, Rand Rare the same or different and are selected from the group consisting of NHR, NRR, OR, SRand R, or Rand Rtogether are selected from the group consisting of (a), (b) and (c), and X is CI, Br of I, and a process for the preparation of compounds of formula (3) comprising the compounds of formula (1) as key intermediates. 

Double donor functionalisation of the peri-positions of perylene and naphthalene monoimide via versatile building blocks

Boron-comprising perylene monoimides and a process for producing the boron-comprising perylene monoimides are provided. The boron-comprising perylene monoimides are useful as building blocks for producing perylene monoimide derivatives and monoimide derivatives. The boron-comprising perylene monoimides are also useful for preparing dye-sensitized solar cells.

Boron containing perylene monoimides, a process for their production, their use as building blocks for the production of perylene monoimide derivatives, monoimide derivatives and their use in dye-sensitized solar cells

An oligophenylene monomer of general formula (I) wherein Rand Rare independently of each other H, halogene, &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;NH, &#x2014;CN, &#x2014;NOor a linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated C-Chydrocarbon residue, which can be substituted 1-to 5-fold with halogene (F, Cl, Br, I), &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;NH, &#x2014;CN and/or &#x2014;NO, and wherein one or more CH-groups can be replaced by &#x2014;O&#x2014; or &#x2014;S&#x2014;, or an optionally substituted aryl, alkylaryl or alkoxyaryl residue; and m represents 0, 1 or 2. 

Polymeric precursors for producing graphene nanoribbons and methods for preparing them

Compounds of the general formula (I) and compounds of the general formula (II)  Use of compounds (I) or (II) as visible or invisible markers, for staining materials, in the laser welding of materials, for detecting bases, acids or pH changes, as a dispersing assistant, pigment additive for organic pigments and intermediates for the production of pigment additives, in heat management or energy management, in photovoltaics or in optical data storage.

Quinoid rylenedicarboximides as IR absorbers

Provided are graphene nanoribbon precursors comprising repeated units of the general formula (I) in which R, Rare each H, halogen, &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;NH, &#x2014;CN, &#x2014;NOor a hydrocarbyl radical which has 1 to 40 carbon atoms and may be linear or branched, saturated or unsaturated and mono- or poly-substituted by halogen (F, Cl, Br, I), &#x2014;OH, &#x2014;NH, &#x2014;CN, and/or &#x2014;NO, where one or more CHgroups may also be replaced by &#x2014;O&#x2014;, &#x2014;S&#x2014;, &#x2014;C(O)O&#x2014;, &#x2014;O&#x2014;C(O)&#x2014;, &#x2014;C(O)&#x2014;, &#x2014;NH&#x2014; or &#x2014;NR&#x2014;, in which R is an optionally substituted CC-hydrocarbyl radical, or an optionally substituted aryl, alkylaryl or alkoxyaryl radical. 

Graphene nanoribbon precursors and monomers suitable for preparation thereof

A sensitizer in a dye-sensitized solar cell, including a compound of formula (I') where: Rand Rare hydrogen, a halogen, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, a hetaryl group, an alkoxy group, an aryloxy group, an arylthio group, a hetaryloxy group, a hetarylthio group, a diarylamino group, or a dialkylamino group; m, n are each independently an integer from 0-4; X is sulfur, oxygen, or NR, where Ris hydrogen, an alkyl group, a cycloalkyl group, an aryl group, or a hetaryl group; Yis oxygen or N&#x2014;Z-A, where A is &#x2014;COOM, &#x2014;SOM, or &#x2014;POM, where M is hydrogen, an alkali metal cation, or [NR&#x2032;], where each R&#x2032; is independently hydrogen or an alkyl group, and where Z is C-C-alkylene or 1,4-phenylene, where the phenylene radical is optionally substituted by one or more alkyl, nitro, cyano, and halogen substituents.

Perylenemonoimide and naphthalenemonoimide derivatives and their use in dye-sensitized solar cells

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