Organic crystal-based flexible smart materials

Crystal Growth of Organic Soft Materials in Template-controlling Systems

Crystallization phenomena of organic soft materials occurring in template-controlling systems such as emulsions, vesicles, micelles and air-water interfaces have been discussed by reviewing recent work. Long-chain molecular crystals and amino acids were chosen as the model substances of the organic soft materials which are key materials in food, pharmaceutical, nuetraceutical, cosmetic, and oth...

Modular adaptive implant based on smart materials.

Applications of biological methods and systems found in nature to the study and design of engineering systems and modern technology are defined as Bionics. The present paper describes a bionics application of shape memory alloy in construction of orthopedic implant. The main idea of this paper is related to design modular adaptive implants for fractured bones. In order to target the efficiency ...

Flexible and Cellulose-based Organic Electronics

Organic electronics is the study of organic materials with electronic functionality and the applications of such materials. In the 1970s, the discovery that polymers can be made electrically conductive led to an explosion within this field which has continued to grow year by year. One of the attractive features of organic electronic materials is their inherent mechanical flexibility, which has ...

Acetylene-Based Materials in Organic Photovoltaics

Fossil fuel alternatives, such as solar energy, are moving to the forefront in a variety of research fields. Organic photovoltaic systems hold the promise of a lightweight, flexible, cost-effective solar energy conversion platform, which could benefit from simple solution-processing of the active layer. The discovery of semiconductive polyacetylene by Heeger et al. in the late 1970s was a miles...

Pyrene-based materials for organic electronics.