In recent years, organic semiconducting materials have enabled technological innovation in the field of flexible electronics. Substantial optimization and development of new p-conjugated materials has resulted in the demonstration of several practical devices, particularly in displays and photoreceptors. However, applications of organic semiconductors in bipolar junction devices, e.g. rectifier...

This Feature Article provides a brief overview of the latest development and emerging new synthesis solution strategies for II–VI semiconducting nanomaterials and inorganic-organic semiconductor hybrid materials. Research on the synthesis of II–VI semiconductor nanomaterials and inorganic–organic hybrid semiconducting materials via solution strategies has made great progress in the past few yea...

We succeeded to fabricate p-n heterojunction and bulkheterojunction small-molecular-weight organic thin-film solar cells by combination of dry (p-type = zinc phthalocyanine, n-type = fullerene) and wet (p-type = tetra-tert-butyl zinc phthalocyanine, n-type = [6,6]-phenylC61-buteric acid methyl ester) processes. Relationship between morphologies of semiconducting layers and photovoltaic properti...

Recent advances in inkjet-printed organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) based on organic semiconductor/insulating polymer blends are reviewed in this article. Organic semiconductor/insulating polymer blends are attractive ink candidates for enhancing the jetting properties, inducing uniform film morphologies, and/or controlling crystallization behaviors of organic semiconductors. Representat...

Polymer matrices have now been built to involve site specific receptors. These receptor sites have been called templates and can be used for molecular recognition.1,2,3 In some ways the templated site in the polymer cavity is analogous to an enzymatic site.' Such templated polymer systems show promise of enhancing selectivity in chromatographic separations of organic molecules. It is also known...

The CsSnI3 crystal belongs to an interesting class of semiconducting perovskite which is currently used in thin-film field-effect transistor made of organics-inorganics hybrid compounds. The benefit of using hybrid compounds resides in their ability to combine the advantage of these two classes of compounds: the high mobility of inorganic materials and the ease of processing of organic material...

Inorganic layered crystals exemplified by clay minerals can be exfoliated in solvents to form colloidal dispersions of extremely thin inorganic layers that are called nanosheets. The obtained “nanosheet colloids” form lyotropic liquid crystals because of the highly anisotropic shape of the nanosheets. This system is a rare example of liquid crystals consisting of inorganic crystalline mesogens....

Semiconducting polymer heterostructures with strong two-dimensional quantum confinement of excitons are prepared by self-assembly of two conjugated polymers in binary blends. Exciton confinement effects in the semiconducting polymer quantum wires were observed at room temperature by photoluminescence excitation and photoluminescence spectroscopies and by electric field-induced photoluminescence...

Antibiotics are chemical compounds that used to kill or prevent bacterial growth. They in different fields, such as the medical field, agriculture, and veterinary. end up wastewater, which causes threat of developing antibacterial resistance; therefore, antibiotics must be eliminated from wastewater. Different conventional elimination methods limited due their high cost effort, incomplete elimi...