Semiconducting polymers ultrafast electron transfer

Our initial discovery of ultrafast electron transfer occurred in late 1992. It was a discovery based purely on curiosity. At that time, we had been working on the optical properties of semiconducting polymers for many years. Then, the fullerenes were discovered. Prof. Serdar Sariciftci was a Post-doc. 

Ultrafast photoinduced electron transfer in semiconducting polymers mixed with controlled amounts of acceptors this phenomenon has opened the way to a variety of applications including high-sensitivity plastic photodiodes, and efficient plastic solar cells ... 

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