A new approach captures ultra-thin pentacene film growth in real time, explaining the origin of grooves at silica–gold electrode interfaces. Imagine being able to follow individual molecules as they ...

Solar cell efficiency is limited because light at wavelengths shorter than the cell’s absorption threshold does not channel any of its excess energy into the generated electricity. Congreve et al.

Due to their high hole mobility, pentacene and its derivatives have been the representative organic semiconductors and have been the subject of much research, both basic and applied. In particular, ...

As the price of energy continues to rise, businesses are looking to renewable energy for cheaper sources of power. Making electricity from the most plentiful of these sources - the sun -can be ...

Organic thin film transistors (TFTs) have attracted much attention due to their wide and potential applications in, e.g., flexible displays, radio frequency identification cards, and sensors.

This is 9,10,11,20,21,22-hexaphenyltetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]pentacene, the most highly twisted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon ever prepared. Its X-ray structure shows an end-to-end twist of 144°. Unlike ...

If you've ever taken a chemistry class, you have seen plenty of diagrams of molecules. If you made it to organic chemistry, you fiddled with one of the tinker-toy-like molecule kits, building your own ...

Improving the efficiency of converting sunlight into electricity is a fundamental task if humanity is to overcome its dependence on fossil fuels. When light is shone onto a semiconductor, for example ...

For the first time, nanotechnology researchers in France have developed a hybrid nano-particle-organic transistor that can mimic the main functionalities of a synapse. Credit: Mil-Tech.com The NOMFET ...

Nanoscopically confined polymer films are known to exhibit substantially depressed glass transition temperatures ( $T_{\text{g}}$ 's) as compared to the corresponding ...

It may look like a piece of honeycomb, but this lattice-shaped image is the first ever close-up view of a single molecule. Scientists from IBM used an atomic force microscope (AFM) to reveal the ...