The withdrawn patent applications involved molecular-scale transistors, organic electronics and superconductivity.
This year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry recognized one landmark achievement in the rise of organic electronics.
Organic electronics will never match silicon for processing speed, but such plastic devices would not have to be made in expensive clean rooms as today's chips are.
But without Dr. Batlogg's imprimatur, the remarkable findings in superconductivity and organic electronics, now discredited, would have been scrutinized more skeptically sooner.
This unexpected instability can limit their use for organic electronics.
Recent advances in organic electronics and plastic transistors may finally get the technology around that corner.
Bao says she hopes to use flexible organic electronics for this task as well.
Modified PEDOT PSS has potential to replace TCO in organic electronics for its high conductivity [15].
Her recent research focuses on carbon nanotube-based organic electronics for biosensing and photovoltaic application.
They must learn to produce for niche applications of organic electronics.
As a community we seem to be stepping into a development era of organic electronics.
