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Shape persistent conformations reduce the complexity of polymer materials. Herein, we propose a concept on the nanopolymer that is a nanoscale polymer chain with the repeat units of nanomonomers. In this article, a soluble organic nanopolymer of wide bandgap semiconductors was synthesized by the Yamamoto polymerization of nanogrid monomer as the repeat units with the rectangle size of ∼1.7 nm × 1.2 nm. The alkyl side chain substituent at 9-position of fluorenes guarantees the polygrid with excellent solubility. Tetrafluorenes in the conjugation-interrupted backbones of polygrid acts as the active light-emitting centers without obvious green band in the fluorescence spectra of the films after 10 h annealing at 180 °C, indicating this nanopolymer exhibits excellent spectral stability. Such soluble nanopolymers will be the fifthgeneration of macromolecular materials with a potential character of overall performance improvement.
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This work was partially financially supported by the National Natural Science Funds for Excellent Young Scholar (No. 21322402), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 21274064, 21504041, 21504047 and 61136003), Excellent Science and Technology Innovation Team of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (2013), Synergetic Innovation Center for Organic Electronics and Information Displays, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province (Nos. BK20150834 and BM2012010) and Open Project from State Key Laboratory of Supramolecular Structure and Materials at Jilin University (No. klssm201612). Project funded by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions (PAPD) and Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications Scientific Foundation (NUPTSF) (No. NY214179).
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Feng, Qy., Han, Yl., Yu, Mn. et al. A robust and soluble nanopolymer based on molecular grid-based nanomonomer. Chin J Polym Sci 35, 87–97 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10118-016-1856-7
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