eng Science and Education Publishing World Journal of Chemical Education 2375-1657 2018-01-27 6 1 54 62 10.12691/wjce-6-1-9 WJCE2018619 article Amitabh Banerji a.banerji@uni-koeln.de 1 Ann-Kathrin Schönbein 2 Lena Halbrügge 2 Institute of Chemistry Education, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany Department of Molecular Electronics, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany Organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs) are modern illuminants of the next generation. OLEDs use (among others) semiconducting polymers for light emission and open the pathway to innovative applications as flexible or transparent displays or luminaire. For the school-implementation of OLEDs low-cost experiments and teaching materials have been developed earlier. This contribution delivers a school-experiment for the synthesis of a semiconducting polymer and presents a successful example of a curricular innovation based on the cooperation between subject science and science education. http://pubs.sciepub.com/wjce/6/1/9/wjce-6-1-9.pdf OLED conjugated polymers organic semiconductors MEH-PPV future technology