Aditi Khirbat, Oded Nahor, Sara Marina Barbier, Artem Levitsky, Jaime Martín, Gitti Frey, Natalie Stingelin
Large strides have been made in designing an ever-increasing set of modern organic materials of high functionality and thus, often, of high complexity, including semiconducting polymers, organic ferroelectrics, light-emitting small molecules, and beyond. Here, we review how broadly applied thermal analysis methodologies, especially differential scanning calorimetry, can be utilized to provide unique information on the assembly and solid-state structure of this extensive class of materials, as well as the phase behavior of intrinsically intricate multicomponent systems...
February 29, 2024: Annual Review of Physical Chemistry