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    Green gold: prospects of lignin in organic electronics and bioelectronics

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    Lignin, a complex aromatic polymer from plant cell walls, has emerged as a promising material for organic electronics and bioelectronics due to its abundance, low cost, and renewability. Its unique chemical structure allows for the development of flexible, lightweight devices in organic electronics, from printed circuit boards, batteries and supercapacitors to field-effect transistors and solar cells, while its biocompatibility and low toxicity make it ideal for bioelectronic applications like in biosensors, artificial neural networks and cognitive computing. This perspective highlights lignin's potential to address sustainability challenges in the electronics industry and explores its current advancements and future prospects in these fields

    Quantitative cascade energy transfer in semiconductor thin films

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    In this contribution we report the photophysical study of three organic blend systems comprising [60]-PCBM along with different combinations of five extended semiconducting arylacetylenes, i.e. p-[(2-{[m, pdidodecyloxyphenyl] ethynyl}-7-fluorenyl) ethynyl] benzonitrile, 4,7-bis(5-{[m, p-bis(hexyloxy) phenyl]ethynyl} thien-2-yl)-2,1,3-benzothiadiazole, 9,10-bis-[(m, m-bis{[m, m-bis-(hexyloxy) phenyl] ethynyl}phenyl) ethynyl]-anthracene, pseudo-p-[(10-{[m, p-bis-(hexyloxy) phenyl] ethynyl}-9-anthryl[2.2] paracyclophane, and oligo{2,5-bis(hexyloxy)[1,4-phenylene ethynylene]-alt-[9,10-anthraceneethynylene]}, and one semiconducting arylvinylene, i.e. 9,10-bis-{(E)-[m, p-bis(hexyloxy) phenyl] vinyl}-anthracene, that evidenced an efficient quantitative energy transfer from the hypsochromic to the bathochromic species (the potential efficient charge-donor components), useful to extend the collection of sunlight. An interesting emission enhancement in thin films has been observed only for the arylvinylene derivative
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