Journal
ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 25, Issue 3, Pages 477-487Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.201201949
Keywords
supramolecular electronics; organic conductors; self-organized functional materials; addressable interconnects; nanotechnology
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Supramolecular organic electronics rests on the use of bottom-up chemical self-assembly processes in order to design conducting components on the 5100 nm scale. The challenges in this field are both the construction of 1D-nanostructures displaying optimized transport properties and their precise connections to electrodes. The present Research News highlights important advances in such materials regarding their electrical performances, from semiconductors to organic metals, but also regarding their processability. In particular, by externally controlling light-responsive supramolecular polymerization processes, and by using appropriate methods of casting with an applied electric field, it becomes possible to pre-determine the accurate positioning of organic interconnects within patterned nano-circuitry. These strategies using external stimuli to obtain addressability, thus hold promising alternatives to other conducting materials such as carbon nanotubes for further technological applications in nanosciences.
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