TCI Materials Science News  September 2020

TCI offers monomers useful for biomaterials research, such as acrylates, lactones, dithiols, and diisocyanates. Among these categories our acrylic monomers comprise the largest number of products and are often utilized for biomaterials or biocompatible materials research, using conventional radical polymerization or controlled radical polymerization. In addition to the common monomers for biomaterials research including 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) [M0085] and N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) [I0401], TCI has zwitterionic monomers such as 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine (MPC) [M2005], or monomers with reactive functional groups useful for conjugation with proteins or peptides.

P3HT [P2513] is widely useful in organic electronics research, and is a representative material of soluble organic semiconducting polymers. The performance of electronic materials is typically dependent on the quality of the material. Among them, purity and molecular weight are important factors for the material’s performance. P2513 features a highly regioselective structure with a consistent average molecular weight and polydispersity index. In addition, P3HT is useful for solution process-able organic solar cells(OPV), perovskite solar cells(PSC), and organic transistor research, due to its high solubility.