A molecular jigsaw puzzle

摘要

Ever since the discovery of conducting polymers, organic molecules and salts in the 1960s and 1970s, conducting organic solids and their potential for electronic and photonic functions have attracted interest~(1-3).This has been driven by their mechanical flexibility and their large-scale, low-cost production compared with their inorganic counterparts.When devices exploiting the electronic properties of single or few molecules were also proposed, aiming at reaching the ultimate limits of electronic circuit miniaturization4, organic and molecular electronics were born.