Corannulene derivatives for organic electronics: From molecular engineering to applications

Interface Engineering for Organic Electronics

Protein engineering for molecular electronics.

Recombinant DNA technology allows the manipulation of the physical properties of proteins that perform electron transport and photochemical processes. Recent work is reviewed that has a potential impact on the development of molecular electronic devices, within a general framework outlining strategies for device fabrication. This review is also published in Current Opinion in Structural Biology...

Organic and Molecular Electronics

Over recent years, a wide variety of challenges aiming for electrical pumping of organic laser diodes have been addressed. However, organic laser diodes have difficulty gaining widespread application due to their high lasing thresholds under electrical pumping. A variety of organic semiconductors have been developed to reduce the lasing threshold, which include not only small molecular material...

Molecular engineering of organic sensitizers for solar cell applications.

Novel organic sensitizers comprising donor, electron-conducting, and anchoring groups were engineered at molecular level and synthesized. The functionalized unsymmetrical organic sensitizers 3-{5-[N,N-bis(9,9-dimethylfluorene-2-yl)phenyl]-thiophene-2-yl}-2-cyano-acrylic acid (JK-1) and 3-{5'-[N,N-bis(9,9-dimethylfluorene-2-yl)phenyl]-2,2'-bisthiophene-5-yl}-2-cyano-acrylic acid (JK-2), upon anc...

Cruciform pi-systems for molecular electronics applications.

This study details a modular and general synthesis of a new class of molecules consisting of cruciform pi-systems. The key to synthesizing these molecules was an unprecedented double Staudinger cyclization. Once formed, these rigid compounds assemble into ordered monolayer films on metal and metal oxide surfaces to orient their conjugated, bis-phenyloxazole subunits upright. This surface orient...