Themed collection Molecular assembly of organic electronics

Dean M. DeLongchamp and Ying Diao introduce the Molecular Systems Design & Engineering themed issue on molecular assembly of organic electronics.

This review summarized the fundamentals and recent developments of organic semiconductor morphology dependent organic-transistor-based chemical sensors, which also gives corresponding strategies toward high-performance device construction.

Ion/charge transport in OECTs is sensitive to molecular packing and film morphology. This review summarizes recent progress on controlling and understanding the molecular packing and film morphology in OECTs.

This study highlights the importance of granular understanding of conductivity and structural changes in vapor doped semiconducting polymers.

Molecular systems are analyzed via the construction of a molecular graph and quantifying the resiliency for charge transport through metrics for graph centrality, in the context of charge pathways between the source and drain electrodes.

Crystal twisting introduces optical activity to organic semiconducting films of centrosymmetric tetrathiafulvalene.

We investigate the thermal behavior and a newly found high temperature polymorph of C10-DNTT thin films experimentally and theoretically.

2-Dimensional brickwork packing is desirable for high mobility organic semiconductors. We synthesised acene derivatives that adopt this packing without using heavier group 14 elements to investigate substituent effects on bulk transport properties.

We used a vesicle scaffold to form a ternary, quasi-panchromatic funnel for electronic excited states oriented from the outer surface towards the membrane. We did so via electronic energy transfer (EET) from two conjugated polyelectrolytes to a phthalocyanine.

A model of semiconducting polymers where the conjugated portion is described with atomistic detail and the alkyl side chains are approximated with a coarse grain potential is very promising for the molecular design of new polymeric materials.

An approach that combines atomistic molecular dynamics simulations and graph characterization is developed and deployed to follow the growth of organic crystals from the melt.

Crystallization of organic semiconductor small molecules from solution proceeds in multiple steps. This study describes how asymmetric molecules lead to long-lived transient phases and their impact on carrier mobility for electronic devices.