John Wiley & Sons, 2010. — 1030 р.A comprehensive overview of functional nanosystems based on organic and polymeric materials and their impact on current and future research and technology in the highly interdisciplinary field of materials science. As such, this handbook covers synthesis and fabrication methods, as well as properties and characterization of supramolecular architectures. Much of the contents are devoted to existing and emerging applications, such as organic solar cells, transistors, diodes, nanowires and molecular switches.
The result is an indispensable resource for materials scientists, organic chemists, molecular physicists and electrochemists looking for a reliable reference on this hot topic.Contents
Preface;
List of Contributors;Volume IModeling and Theory:
Charge Transport in Organic Semiconductors: A Multiscale Modeling;
Monte Carlo Studies of Phase Transitions and Cooperative Motion in Langmuir Monolayers with Internal Dipoles;
Molecules on Gold Surfaces: What They Do and How They Go Around to Do It;
Supramolecular Synthetic Chemistry:
Conjugated Polymer Sensors: Design, Principles, and Biological Applications;
Chromophoric Polyisocyanide Materials;
Functional Polyphenylenes for Supramolecular Ordering and Application in Organic Electronics;
Molecular Tectonics: Design of Hybrid Networks and Crystals Based on Charge-Assisted Hydrogen Bonds
Synthesis and Design of p-Conjugated Organic Architectures Doped with Heteroatoms;
Nanopatterning and Processing:
Functionalization and Assembling of Inorganic Nanocontainers for Optical and Biomedical Applications;
Soft Lithography for Patterning Self-Assembling Systems;
Colloidal Self-Assembly of Semiconducting Polymer Nanospheres: A Novel Route to Functional Architectures for Organic Electronic Devices;
Photolithographic Patterning of Organic Electronic Materials;
Scanning Probe Microscopies:
Toward Supramolecular Engineering of Functional Nanomaterials: Preprogramming Multicomponent 2D Self-Assembly at Solid–Liquid Interfaces;
STM Characterization of Supramolecular Materials with Potential for Organic Electronics and Nanotechnology;
Scanning Probe Microscopy Insights into Supramolecular p-Conjugated Nanostructures for Optoelectronic Devices;
Single-Molecule Organic Electronics: Toward Functional Structures;Volume IIElectronic and Optical Properties:
Charge Transfer Excitons in Supramolecular Semiconductor
Optical Properties and Electronic States in Anisotropic Conjugated Polymers: Intra- and Interchain Effects;
Nanoscale Shape of Conjugated Polymer Chains Revealed by Single-Molecule Spectroscopy;
Electronic Structure Engineering Through Intramolecular
Field-Effect Transistors:
Crystal Structure Performance Relationship in OFETs;
Bioactive Supramolecular Architectures in Electronic Sensing Devices;
Field-Effect Devices Based on Organic Semiconductor Heterojunctions;
Functional Semiconducting Blends;
Solar Cells:
Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Photovoltaic Diodes: Photoaction at the Heterojunction and Charge Collection Through Mesostructured Composites;
Nanostructured Hybrid Solar Cells;
Determination and Control of Microstructure in Organic Photovoltaic Devices;
Morphology and Photovoltaic Properties of Polymer–Polymer Blends;
LEDs/LECs:
The Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cell: Utilizing Ions for Self-Assembly and Improved Device Operation;
Optical and Electroluminescent Properties of Conjugated Polyrotaxanes;
Index.
