Executive Summary : | Conducting polymers are highly sought after due to their ease of preparation, stability, redox properties, and high conductivity. They are particularly useful in organic photovoltaic devices, sensors, and electronics. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are a potential material for the upcoming generation of solar cells due to their long life cycle, simple structure, inexpensive fabrication procedures, and high power conversion efficiencies. Despite their versatility, polymerization methodologies like Heck, Suzuki, and Stille cross-coupling reactions have drawbacks like low yield and uncontrolled polymer architecture. Recently, click and multicomponent tandem polymerization have gained attention as a simple, fast, and environmentally friendly alternative. This work focuses on synthesizing three types of conducting polymers containing perylene moiety through azide-alkyne click polymerization, thiol-yne click methodology, and multicomponent tandem polymerization techniques. These polymers will be converted into thin films using a thin film maker, and their semiconducting properties will be studied using an impedance analyzer. Density functional theory (DFT) methods will be used to study the structure and conductive properties of the synthesized polymers. The synthesized conjugated polymers with perylene units are expected to have higher absorption coefficients, tunable band gaps, and good chemical, thermal, and photochemical stability, making them promising materials for DSSC applications. |