DNA as Functional Material in Organic-Based Electronics

DNA as Functional Material in Organic-Based Electronics

Recently, biological materials such as DNA molecules, proteins, and albumen have been extensively investigated for various applications, as they are environmentally friendly and exhibit novel optical and electronic properties. Especially, over the last decades, DNA–lipid complex have been frequently reported as components of optical electronic devices. In this mini-review, the physicochemical p...

Decacyclene Trianhydride at Functional Interfaces: An Ideal Electron Acceptor Material for Organic Electronics.

We report the interface energetics of decacyclene trianhydride (DTA) monolayers on top of two distinct model surfaces, namely, Au(111) and Ag(111). On the latter, combined valence band photoemission and X-ray absorption measurements that access the occupied and unoccupied molecular orbitals, respectively, reveal that electron transfer from substrate to surface sets in. Density functional theory...

Add-on for High Throughput Screening in Material Discovery for Organic Electronics: “Tagging” Molecules to Address the Device Considerations

This work reflects the worth of intelligent modeling in controlling the nanostructure morphology in manufacturing organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. It suggests the idea of screening the pool of material design possibilities inspired by machine learning. To fulfill this goal, a set of experimental data on a BHJ solar cell with a donor structure of diketopyrrolopyrrole (DDP) and ...

DNA as functional material with one-dimensionally oriented molecular chains

Materials with the structures in nanometer scale have emerging importance in the technology. In the present article, the development in molecular chain alignment of DNA was reviewed, including our recent new technologies to fabricate molecular chain-oriented DNA films. It was found that two different mechanisms play essential roles in the orientation of DNA molecular chains. One is the alignmen...

Pyrene-based materials for organic electronics.