Conjugated polymers

US10053542B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Merck Patent GmbH · DE

Inventors

• William Mitchell · Chandler's Ford, GB
• Changsheng Wang · Durham, GB
• Nicolas Blouin · Darmstadt, DE
• Mansoor D'Lavari · Bude, GB
• Jingyao SONG · 流花街道, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 10, 2013
• Grant date: Aug 21, 2018
• Expiry date: Apr 1, 2035

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P70/50
• WIPO field: Organic fine chemistry
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

The invention relates to novel conjugated polymers containing one or more polycyclic repeating units, to methods for their preparation and educts or intermediates used therein, to polymer blends, mixtures and formulations containing them, to the use of the polymers, polymer blends, mixtures and formulations as organic semiconductors in organic electronic (OE) devices, especially in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices and organic photodetectors (OPD), and to OE, OPV and OPD devices comprising these polymers, polymer blends, mixtures or formulations.