Electrosynthesis utilizes electrons as a powerful, controllable, and traceless alternative to chemical oxidants or reductants. It generally offers a more sustainable alternative to conventional redox reactions and can sometimes achieve superior selectivity. Both thermodynamics and kinetics at the solid-liquid interface can be enhanced, while electrochemistry also simplifies purification and post-treatment processes. Our approach particularly emphasizes understanding the synthesis of electroactive and photoactive polymers through electrochemical methods. The solid-phase electrosynthetic technique developed in our group enables real-time monitoring of molecular growth while producing complex compositions and sequences of monomers, coupling reactions, and ions within non-, d-π, and π-π* conjugated polymers. Recent updates on our group's research activities, focusing on solid-phase electrosynthesis, are available in our publications.
Keywords: solid-phase electrosynthesis, iterative synthesis, sequence-controlled synthesis, precise synthesis, metallopolymer, polymer monolayer, end-on polymers, polymer brush, negative differential resistance, organic mixed ionic-electronic transport, intrinsic polymer structure-property relationship, memristor
