Processing of Macromolecular Complex Architectures
Event details
| Date | 16.04.2012 |
| Hour | 13:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Natalie Stingelin, Imperial College |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
It would not be an understatement to conclude that the field of organic functional materials has witnessed over the last two decades major developments, resulting in a drastically expanded library of functionalities and vastly improved characteristics and performance of, e.g. electronic, photonic and/or magnetic devices based on soft (macromolecular) matter. While initial progress was mostly due to synthetic efforts in the form of the creation of new molecular species, enhanced regularity and/or purity, more recently, it has been new advances in the physico-chemical aspects of functional organics – notably the better and expanded control of their molecular order and solid state microstructure – that contributed to their increased attraction and further development. Here we show on the example of organic semiconductors and novel inorganic/organic molecular hybrids that a fundamental understanding of these physico-chemical issues is critical to realize the full intrinsic potential that functional organic matter possess. Thereby, an intimately integrated approach is required involving synthesis, processing and device design as we will demonstrate on the example of photo-charge generation in neat semiconductors, the phase behaviour of organic donor:acceptor blends for use in photovoltaic cells as well as simple solution-processed photonic structures including dielectric mirrors and wave guides.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Frauenrath Holger <[email protected]>