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Electronic Materials, Volume 2, Issue 2

2021 June - 14 articles

Cover Story: Synthetic approaches to efficiently tune the optical, electrochemical and morphological characteristics of oligothiophene-naphthalimide assemblies are reviewed. Variables such as the planarity and the length of the semiconductor π-conjugated backbones, as well as the topology and energy levels of the frontier molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO) and their molecular dipole moments, are finely tuned. The tuning of these properties is connected to the microstructure properties observed by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) in thin films, as well as to the performances of photocatalysts in the degradation of organic pollutants and of active materials in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs). View this paper
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Articles (14)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,248 Views
21 Pages

The article demonstrates an original, non-destructive technique that could be used to in situ monitor charge transport in organic light-emitting diodes. Impedance spectroscopy was successfully applied to determine an OLED’s charge carrier mobility an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,628 Views
31 Pages

Oligothiophene-Naphthalimide Hybrids Connected through Rigid and Conjugated Linkers in Organic Electronics: An Overview

  • Matías J. Alonso-Navarro,
  • Elena Gala,
  • M. Mar Ramos,
  • Rocío Ponce Ortiz and
  • José L. Segura

In this article, we summarize the synthetic approaches developed in our research groups during the last decade to efficiently tune the optical, electrochemical and morphological characteristics of oligothiophene–naphthalimide assemblies. Different va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,362 Views
12 Pages

Silk fibroin is a well-known biopolymer that is used in several applications in which interactions with biological tissue are required. Fibroin is extremely versatile and can be shaped to form several constructs that are useful in tissue engineering...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
10,618 Views
24 Pages

Organic optoelectronic device behaviour is heavily dependent on interfacial effects due to the device architecture and thickness. Interfaces between the inorganic electrodes and the active organic layers play a defining role in the all of the electro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,066 Views
12 Pages

Portable Photovoltaic-Self-Powered Flexible Electrochromic Windows for Adaptive Envelopes

  • Antonio Cánovas-Saura,
  • Ramón Ruiz,
  • Rodolfo López-Vicente,
  • José Abad,
  • Antonio Urbina and
  • Javier Padilla

Variable transmission applications for light control or energy saving based on electrochromic materials have been successfully applied in the past in the building, sports, or automotive fields, although lower costs and ease of fabrication, installati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,129 Views
20 Pages

To improve the energy density of lithium-ion batteries, the development of advanced electrolytes with enhanced transport properties is highly important. Here, we show that by confining the conventional electrolyte (1 M LiPF6 in EC-DEC) in a microporo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,305 Views
12 Pages

Pyrimidine-Based Push–Pull Systems with a New Anchoring Amide Group for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

  • Egor V. Verbitskiy,
  • Alexander S. Steparuk,
  • Ekaterina F. Zhilina,
  • Viktor V. Emets,
  • Vitaly A. Grinberg,
  • Ekaterina V. Krivogina,
  • Sergey A. Kozyukhin,
  • Ekaterina V. Belova,
  • Petr I. Lazarenko and
  • Valery N. Charushin
  • + 3 authors

New donor–π–acceptor pyrimidine-based dyes comprising an amide moiety as an anchoring group have been designed. The dyes were synthesized by sequential procedures based on the microwave-assisted Suzuki cross-coupling and bromination reactions. The in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,926 Views
17 Pages

A Model for Bias Potential Effects on the Effective Langmuir Adsorption–Desorption Processes

  • Luiz Roberto Evangelista,
  • Giovanni Barbero and
  • Anca Luiza Alexe-Ionescu

We discuss the foundations of a model based on an extension of the Langmuir approximation for the adsorption–desorption phenomena, in which the phenomenological coefficients depend on the bias potential, in addition to their dependence on the adsorpt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,824 Views
9 Pages

Long pulse-repetition intervals of 100 to 500 ms of a 193 nm ArF excimer laser successfully increased the height of the photochemical micro-/nano-swelling of silicone rubber, observed with a scanning electron microscope. The effect of the interval wa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,797 Views
11 Pages

Towards Sustainable Crossbar Artificial Synapses with Zinc-Tin Oxide

  • Carlos Silva,
  • Jorge Martins,
  • Jonas Deuermeier,
  • Maria Elias Pereira,
  • Ana Rovisco,
  • Pedro Barquinha,
  • João Goes,
  • Rodrigo Martins,
  • Elvira Fortunato and
  • Asal Kiazadeh

In this article, characterization of fully patterned zinc-tin oxide (ZTO)-based memristive devices with feature sizes as small as 25 µm2 is presented. The devices are patterned via lift-off with a platinum bottom contact and a gold-titanium top conta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,154 Views
23 Pages

We predict that conduction electrons in a semiconductor film containing a centered square array of metal nanowires normal to its plane are bound in quantum states around the central wires, if a positive bias voltage is applied between the wires at th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,812 Views
10 Pages

We report on the high-throughput non-lithographic microprinting of a high-wiring-density interdigitated array electrode (line and space = 5 µm/5 µm), based on a facile wet/dewet patterning of silver nanoparticle ink. The trade-off between high-densit...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,710 Views
12 Pages

Solution-Processed Organic and ZnO Field-Effect Transistors in Complementary Circuits

  • John Barron,
  • Alec Pickett,
  • James Glaser and
  • Suchismita Guha

The use of high κ dielectrics lowers the operating voltage in organic field-effect transistors (FETs). Polymer ferroelectrics open the path not just for high κ values but allow processing of the dielectric films via electrical poling. Poled ferroelec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,801 Views
11 Pages

NiO and Cr2O3 are transition metal oxides with a partially filled d electron band that supports p-type conduction. Both are transparent to the visible light due to optical absorption beginning at wavelengths below 0.4 μm and the creation of holes by...

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