Manufacturing of a device to connect at least one nano-object to an external electrical system, comprising a support provided with a semiconducting layer in which the first doped zones are formed at a spacing from each other, an external electrical system being connectable to the first doped zones, each first doped zone (8a, 8b) being in contact with a second doped zone on which a portion of the nano-object is located, the second doped zones being separated from each other and with a thickness less than the thickness of the first doped zones.

In various embodiments of the present disclosure, a molecular electronics sensor array chip comprises: (a) an integrated circuit semiconductor chip; and (b) a plurality of molecular electronic sensor devices disposed thereon, each of said sensor devices comprising: (i) a pair of nanoscale source and drain electrodes separated by a nanogap; (ii) a gate electrode; and (iii) a bridge and/or probe molecule spanning the nanogap and connecting the source and drain electrodes, wherein the molecular electronic sensor devices are organized into an electronically addressable, controllable, and readable array of sensor pixels.

A sensor for detection of a target species is provided. The sensor includes a capture layer on an organic semi-conductor to which biomolecules may be bound. The capture layer polymer is deposited from a non-aqueous solution and the polymer is insoluble in water and has reactive groups for interaction with the analyte directly or via a conjugated species. Organic electronic devices, for example organic thin-film transistors having the capture layer are also provided. Use of a capture layer provides a low cost high quality biosensor which may be reliably produced in large quantities.

Provided is a biosensing device including unit cells each including a source electrode and a drain electrode spaced apart from each other, a sensing membrane for forming a channel between the source and drain electrodes, a gate electrode spaced apart from the sensing membrane, and a dam structure surrounding at least parts of an edge of the sensing membrane and made of an insulator, wherein the dam structure is configured to contain a precursor solution to be solidified to generate the sensing membrane.

An object of the present invention is to provide a thermoelectric conversion element having excellent thermoelectric conversion performance and excellent high-temperature durability, a method for manufacturing the thermoelectric conversion element, a thermoelectric conversion module, and a method for manufacturing the thermoelectric conversion module. A thermoelectric conversion element of the present invention has a thermoelectric conversion layer containing an organic thermoelectric conversion material and a dopant, a pair of electrodes disposed at positions separated from each other, and a buffer layer which is disposed between the thermoelectric conversion layer and each of the electrodes and electrically connects the thermoelectric conversion layer and the electrodes to each other, in which the buffer layer contains the same material as the organic thermoelectric conversion material contained in the thermoelectric conversion layer, the buffer layer does not contain a dopant or contains a dopant, and in a case where the buffer layer contains a dopant, a ratio of the dopant contained in the buffer layer to the dopant contained in the thermoelectric conversion layer is equal to or lower than 0.1.

The complexes disclosed herein are cyclometalated metal complexes of Formula (I) that are useful for full color displays and lighting applications. ##STR00001##

The present disclosure relates to a cellulose-polymer composite solar cell that is substantially biodegradable and fabricated using environmentally friendly materials and methods. The polymer solar cell comprises an electrically conductive cellulose-polymer composite and an electrically semiconductive cellulose-polymer composite.

An energy conversion device comprises an apparatus and a method for employing energy from an electron- and, optionally, photon-containing energy wave that is induced in one or more aggregated molecular ensembles. Emission is stimulated from the ensembles by a wide variety of energy inputs, and energy derived from this electron and/or photon energy wave is useful for modulation of signals in circuits; performing chemical reduction reactions; and performing as an energy conversion device, e.g., as a photovoltaic energy converter. Although differing from a laser by virtue its production of, inter alia, a charge transfer rather than merely light, the device of the invention can be employed in virtually all of the same fields in which a laser is utilized.

Disclosed herein are embodiments of halogenated nanohoop compounds and assemblies thereof that can be used to for a variety of biological and chemical applications. The halogenated nanohoop compounds described herein exhibit non-covalent interactions that promote their ability to stack and form column-like assemblies having uniform pore size and that do not exhibit structural defects typically associated with other column-like structures, such as carbon nanotubes. Assemblies described herein also are capable of non-covalent interactions with other assemblies and thus can be used to form networks of the assemblies described herein.

A bio-solar cell including: one or more photosynthetic complexes, each photosynthetic complex including one or more chlorophyll compounds and one or more components of Photosystem II; one or more carbon nanotubes upon which the one or more photosynthetic complexes are bound at a first region of the one or more carbon nanotubes; and a conductive substrate attached to a second region of the one or more carbon nanotubes.