%0 Journal Article %@ 1359-7345 %A Schroeder, BC %A Ashraf, RS %A Thomas, S %A White, AJP %A Biniek, L %A Nielsen, CB %A Zhang, W %A Huang, Z %A Tuladhar, PS %A Watkins, SE %A Anthopoulos, TD %A Durrant, JR %A McCulloch, I %D 2012 %F discovery:10048398 %I ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY %J Chemical Communications %N 62 %P 7699-7701 %T Synthesis of novel thieno[3,2-b]thienobis(silolothiophene) based low bandgap polymers for organic photovoltaics %U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10048398/ %V 48 %X Thieno[3,2-b]thienobis(silolothiophene), a new electron rich hexacyclic monomer has been synthesized and incorporated into three novel donor–acceptor low-bandgap polymers. By carefully choosing the acceptor co-monomer, the energy levels of the polymers could be modulated and high power conversion efficiencies of 5.52% were reached in OPV devices. %Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.