Projects
Our research combines synthetic inorganic and organic chemistry with a focus on novel conjugated organic materials and their application to organic photovoltaics (OPVs or solar cells), photonic light detectors, and organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs). Conjugated organic materials exhibit the unique combination of the optical and electronic properties of inorganic semiconductors with the weight, flexibility, and processability of plastics. As a result, these materials are of considerable fundamental and technological interest with applications demonstrated for these materials that include their use in batteries, sensors, electrochromic devices, photovoltaics, OLEDs, and field effect transistors. Publications
Ryan L. Schwiderski and Seth C. Rasmussen. Synthesis and Characterization of Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine-based Terthienyls: Tunable Precursors for Low Band Gap Conjugated Materials. Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013, 78, 5453-5462.
Seth C. Rasmussen and Sean J. Evenson. Dithieno[3,2-b:2',3'-d]pyrrole-based Materials: Synthesis and Applications to Organic Electronics. Progress in Polymer Science 2013, 38, in press.
Prakash Sista, Ruvini S. Kularatne, Michael E. Mulholland, Mitchell Wilson, Natalie Holmes, Xiaojing Zhou, Paul C. Dastoor, Warwick Belcher, Seth C. Rasmussen, Michael C. Biewer, Mihaela C. Stefan. Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene -based semiconducting polymers with alkylthienyl substituents - Synthesis and electronic property study. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2013, 51, 2622-2630.
Benjamin C. Duck, Benjamin Vaughan, Nathan Cooling, Xiaojing Zhou, John L. Holdsworth, Li Wen, Seth C. Rasmussen, Paul C. Dastoor, and Warwick J. Belcher. An Equivalent Circuit Model for Ternary Blend P3HT:pC6TP:PCBM Low Band Gap Devices. Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 2013, 114, 65-70.
Benjamin C. Duck, Benjamin Vaughan, Li Wen, Christopher L. Heth, Seth C. Rasmussen, Xiaojing Zhou, Warwick J. Belcher, and Paul C. Dastoor. Probing the Structure-Function Relationship in pC6TP:PCBM Based Organic Photonic Devices. Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 2013, 110, 8-14.
Seth C. Rasmussen, Michael E. Mulholland, Ryan L. Schwiderski, and Cole A. Larsen. Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazines and Its Extended Analogues: Important Buildings Blocks for Conjugated Materials. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2012, 49, 479-493.
Michael E. Mulholland, Ryan L. Schwiderski, and Seth C. Rasmussen. Structure-Function Relationships in Conjugated Materials containing Tunable Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazine Units. Polymer Bulletin 2012, 69, 291-301.
Seth C. Rasmussen, Ryan L. Schwiderski, and Michael E. Mulholland. Thieno[3,4-b]pyrazines and Their Applications to Low Band Gap Organic Materials. Chemical Communications 2011, 47, 11394-11410.