Donor and Acceptor Functionalized Silsesquioxane Nanostructures for Organic-Based Photovoltaic Devices

Organic semiconductors functionalized nanostructures play a major role in optoelectronic device applications. Reliable synthesis of such nanostructures with narrow average size distributions or specific aspect ratios provides opportunities to study sizedependent optical and electrical properties. Much advancement has been made investigating novel functionalized nanostructures for electronic device applications.1-12

2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................... 19 2.2 Functionalized Polysilsesquioxanes ...............................................................20