Abstract Optical nanoantennas are often based on plasmonic resonances in metal nanostructures, but their dynamic tunability is limited due to the fixed permittivity of conventional metals. Recently, we introduced PEDOT-based conducting polymers as an alternative materials platform for plasmonics and metasurfaces. Here, expand organic systems a wider class doped polythiophene-based semiconductin...

Scandium nitride has recently gained interest as a prospective compound for thermoelectric applications due to its high Seebeck coefficient. However, ScN also has a relatively high thermal conductivity, which limits its thermoelectric efficiency and figure of merit (zT). These properties motivate a search for other semiconductor materials that share the electronic structure features of ScN, but...

Semiconducting organic-inorganic nanocomposites were judiciously crafted by placing conjugated polymers in intimate contact with inorganic tetrapods via click reaction. CdSe tetrapods were first synthesized by inducing elongated arms from CdSe zincblende seeds through seed-mediated growth. The subsequent effective inorganic ligand treatment, followed by reacting with short bifunctional ligands,...

The development of solution-processable, high-performance n-channel organic semiconductors is crucial to realizing low-cost, all-organic complementary circuits. Single-crystalline organic semiconductor nano/microwires (NWs/MWs) have great potential as active materials in solution-formed high-performance transistors. However, the technology to integrate these elements into functional networks wi...

A dye-sensitized metal-organic framework, TMU-5S, was synthesized based on introducing the laser dye Rhodamine B into the porous framework TMU-5. TMU-5S was investigated as a ratiometric fluorescent sensor for the detection of explosive nitro aromatic compounds and showed four times greater selectivity to picric acid than any state-of-the-art luminescent-based sensor. Moreover, it can selective...

Photosynthetic microorganisms, such as algae, are sources of bioproducts. Because they require only sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to grow, have potential for future mitigation CO2 emissions. However, inefficient growth these organisms remains an issue realizing emission reductions, primarily in terms photosynthetic efficiency, photoinhibition, photolimitation. Here, we show how use light ...