Research at ICMM Seminar Series: by Amparo Ruiz Carretero

TITLE: Small, chiral and self-assembled: the recipe for organic electronics

AUTHOR: Amparo Ruiz Carretero, ATRAE researcher at ICMM

WHEN: September, 25, 12PM

WHERE: Salón de Actos, ICMM-CSIC

ABSTRACT: Providing global energy supply in a sustainable manner is one of the main challenges of our generation, we are therefore in the urge to find alternative energy resources and materials. In this sense, organic materials are great candidates for energy conversion since they are flexible, light, portable, scalable, and more importantly, we can tune their properties by molecular design. Still, the efficiency of organic energy technologies is far from the one of inorganic materials. Despite the progress in the field, the race for efficiency records, hampers research on solving fundamental issues, such as device morphology and charge recombination. In this talk, I will show you how to control the morphology of organic nanostructures using supramolecular chemistry (Figure 1),1,2 and how to decrease charge recombination thanks to the selective spin transport in chiral nanostructures (Figure 1).3 These two strategies combined have the potential to improve the efficiency of organic electronic and spintronic devices.