Building better molecules for bendable electronics
Friday, October 11, 2013 - 08:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Organic semiconductors made from small aromatic molecules can be dissolved and screen-printed onto many substrates, including plastics, opening the path for 'flexible' electronic devices such as low-cost polymer solar cells. Kazuo Takimiya and colleagues from the Emergent Molecular Function Research Group at the RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, in collaboration with researchers from Hiroshima University, have now developed a synthetic procedure that makes it easier to tailor the chemical structure of an important organic semiconductor.