Chinese scholars synthesize organic nanopolymers, which may affect flexible electronic devices, etc.

Recently, Huang Wei, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor Xie Linghai's team from the Institute of Information Materials and Nanotechnology of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, drawing on Chinese square and circle culture and ancient window pane structures, broke through the new concept of polymers and synthesized organic nanopolymers, achieving stereoselective latticeization and polylatticeization based on centrosymmetric molecular arrangement.

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In recent years, the team led by Academician Huang Wei and Professor Jie Linghai proposed the concept of organic nanopolymers to address the limitation of polymers, and pioneered a new research direction of lattice-type organic nanopolymers. They named this type of nanopolymer after the painting "Hand Drawing Hands" created by Dutch printmaker Maurits Cornelis Escher in 1948, namely hand-drawn hand lattice, which shows the key characteristics of organic nanopolymers.

According to Science and Technology Daily, Xie Linghai said that in this study, the A2B2 synthon we designed not only overcame the cross-linking problem, but also effectively controlled the stereoregularity of the nanopolymer.

In addition, Academician Huang Wei also stated that organic nanopolymer semiconductors will provide new solutions for plastic electronics, which will affect the development of new generation organic wide bandgap semiconductor materials, electrically pumped lasers, flexible electronic devices, printed display technology, as well as information storage and neuromorphic computing technologies.

It is reported that on April 9, the results were published online in the journal Nature Communications.