Organic electronics

News and Updates

A graphical representation of a DNA biosensor device for clinical diagnostics that is the size and shape of a smartphone.

New DNA Biosensor Could Unlock Powerful, Low-Cost Clinical Diagnostics

January 24, 2023

The biosensor, developed by researchers at NIST, Brown University and the French research institute CEA-Leti , identifies biomarkers by measuring how binding

nucleic acid nanotechnology illustration

A Revolution Still in the Making: NIST Researchers Chart the Future of Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology

October 27, 2022

Trapped in a microscopic cage made of strands of DNA, molecules of a life-saving drug course through the bloodstream of a cancer patient. Only when receptors on

Projects and Programs

Electronic Structure and Dynamics in Quantum Materials

Ongoing

Electronic structure information obtained with photoemission-based measurements provides a keystone in understanding emerging quantum materials, and the unique

Sub-nanoscale electron microscopy of complex nanostructures

Ongoing

The aim of this project is to develop robust, quantitative measurement methods utilizing transmission electron microscopy methods for complex, nanostructured

Electronic Structure and Excited-state Dynamics in Photovoltaic Devices

Ongoing

Organic photovoltaic cells rely upon molecular interfaces to separate charge. Efficient charge separation depends on molecular structure and electronic band

Publications

Li+ transport in single-ion conducting side-chain polymer electrolytes with nanoscale self-assembly of ordered ionic domains

August 22, 2022

Author(s)

Jiacheng Liu, Lingyu Yang, Phillip Pickett, Bumjun Park, Jennifer Schaefer

Li-ion batteries based on organic liquid electrolytes have been commercialized for decades. However, the flammability of the liquid electrolyte and propensity

Using 4D-STEM to Track Structural Changes Due to Electrochemical Doping in Organic Electrochemical Transistors

July 22, 2022

Author(s)

Andrew Herzing, Lucas Flagg, Lee J. Richter

Organic single crystals of charge-transfer complexes: model systems for the study of donor/acceptor interactions

October 15, 2021

Author(s)

Katelyn Goetz, Hamna Iqbal, Emily Bittle, Christina Hacker, Sujitra Pookpanratana, Oana Jurchescu

The charge-transfer (CT) state arising as a hybrid electronic state at the interface between charge donor and charge acceptor molecular units is important to a

Structural and Morphological Characterization of Novel Organic Electrochemical Transistors via Four-dimensional (4D) Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

July 30, 2021

Author(s)

Andrew Herzing, Lucas Flagg, Lee J. Richter