The field of organic based electronics has become a blossoming area of intensive study during the past decade. The promise of a cheaper and easier-to-process alternative to inorganic based semiconductor materials makes these materials highly desirable. Additionally, organic based electronics can be made into flexible structures, allowing for the fabrication of visual displays that can be folded...

The aim of this review is to summarize the recent progress in the fabrication of efficient nanostructured polymer-based sensors with special focus on polypyrrole. The correlation between physico-chemical parameters, mainly morphology of various polypyrrole nanostructures, and their sensitivity towards selected gas and volatile organic compounds (VOC) is provided. The different approaches of pol...

We introduce a new class of photo-electron-beam resists and solvents which are benign to organic electronic materials. We demonstrate that our patterning approach enables the fabrication of unique organic electronic devices, such as all organic thin film transistors, patterned light emitting diode displays and top-contact small channel length thin film transistors. Summary of Research: Organic ...

Intrinsic and extrinsic self-healing strategies can be employed to mitigate the effects of local damage in order to (partially) restore a lost property or functionality and to avoid premature catastrophic failure of the whole system. It is well known that polymer architecture has a crucial influence on mechanical, physical and thermal properties. However, the effect of polymer architecture on t...

abstract earthworms are an important component of soil fauna, and play a crucial role in the improvement of soil properties. however, very little is known of the interactive influence of earthworms and organic materials on soil enzyme activities, particularly in arid and semi-arid soils. the low organic matter content and the significant role of earthworms in stimulating microbiological and bio...

Our goal in this review is three-fold. First, we provide an overview of a number of quantum-chemical methods that can abstract charge-transfer (CT) information on the excited-state species of organic conjugated materials, which can then be exploited for the understanding and design of organic photodiodes and solar cells at the molecular level. We stress that the Composite-Molecule (CM) model is...