SYMPOSIUM C - SUPRAMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND DEVICES

Rapid advances in complex macromolecular materials, mainly in the organic domain, have provided expansive opportunities for the development of new materials with electronic, optical and nonlinear optical properties. The establishment of structure-property-processing relationships of supramolecular systems provides a framework to evaluate theirs potential for applications in electronic, optoelectronic, photonic and electroacoustic devices. The development of the architecture of new supramolecular materials certainly will benefit the wide area of sensors, signaling devices, energy-conversion systems, and display technology. To be successful this endeavor requires interactions across several branches of the material science: synthesis, physicochemical characterizations, processing, etc. The strong interaction with devices engineering is also essential. The proposed symposium will be devoted to the study and applications of supramolecular materials: organics (polymers included), organic/inorganic hybrids, nanostructured materials and complex fluids. It will also cover all approaches of film fabrications: casting, spin-coating, Langmuir-Blodgett, self-assembly, sol-gel processing, electrochemistry, etc. With regard to devices, the study of injection phenomena at interfaces, transport and recombination mechanisms are also included in the scope of this symposium. Finally, the dielectric properties, such as ferroelectricity, piezo- and pyroelectricity are subjects of interest.

The following and related topics will be covered:

• Synthesis, fabrication and characterization of supramolecular materials;

• Electrical and optical characterization of organic thin films;

• Theoretical studies of electronic structures and molecular conformation;

• Application of supramolecular systems to electronic and optoelectronic;

• Application of supramolecular systems to photonics;

• Advances in liquid crystals and applications;

• Ferroelectric films: properties and applications;

• Physical properties of metal/organic interfaces;

• Devices: theory and experimental studies;

• Electronic Plastics;
• Molecular Electronics.

 
Keywords: supramolecular materials.

Symposium Organizers

Giovanni Marletta
Universitá di Catania, Italy
gmarletta@dipchi.unict.it

Rodrigo Martins
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
rm@uninova.pt 

Osvaldo Novais Oliveira Jr.
IF/USP São Carlos
chu@if.sc.usp.br