| 초록 |
A tight electronic coupling between inorganic elements and carbon-rich π-conjugation gives rise to novel electronic properties that are difficult to realize with individual building blocks alone. We have been exploring structurally robust and functionally diverse inorganic cage molecules that can readily be assembled from boron-containing synthetic precursors. Electropolymerization of such bifunctional monomers furnished conducting polymers that have either (i) Lewis acidic boron centers that reversibly bind volatile chemicals to elicit dual signal response, or (ii) redox-active transition metal centers that function as hopping stations for vectorial charge transport across multilayer interfaces. In this presentation will be discussed the advent of this chemistry, current progress, and projected development of these inorganic–organic hybrid polymers for applications in chemical sensing, charge transport, and electrocatalysis. |
