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Symposium UU: Integration of Natural and Synthetic Biomaterials with Organic Electronics

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Integration of Natural and Synthetic Biomaterials with Organic Electronics

The integration of organic electronics with biomaterial platforms using a bio-inspired strategy has the potential to transform current paradigms in green technology and biomedical research.  Biodegradable or biocompatible low-cost, large-volume devices will contribute to a vision of sustain-ability in plastic electronics.  Biomaterial-based electronics with biomimetic interfaces have the potential to be utilized in a wide range of medical technologies that require accurate sensing and stimulation with biological matter.  This symposium will discuss broad synergies in these respective areas in the context of the emerging field of bio-inspired organic electronic materials and devices.  Specific device applications will be discussed, including photovoltaics, field-effect transistors, memory elements, logic circuits, sensors, energy harvesting, tissue-device interfaces, etc.  Further-more, the symposium will explore concepts in large-area and nontraditional fabrication techniques as applied to organic electronic devices.  These applications will be united by the integration of bio-inspired strategies in materials development and subsequent device design.

Abstracts are solicited for the following topics:

Novel biocompatible and biodegradable small molecules and biocompatible polymers for organic electronics (substrates, smoothing layers, electrical conductors, dielectrics, semiconductors, encapsulates, etc.):

• Green and environmentally friendly organic electronic devices (i.e., bioFETs, bioLEDs, biophotovoltaics)
• Bio-inspired organic electronics for sustainable energy storage and distribution
• Organic electronic materials and devices as tools for bio-analytical sensing
• Organic electronic materials and conducting polymers at the interface of tissues and cells
• Electronically active soft materials and conducting polymers for biomedical applications

Invited speakers include:

Zhenan Bao (Stanford Univ.), Magnus Berggren (Linkoping Univ., Sweden), Annalisa Bonfiglio (Univ. degli Studi di Cagliari, Italy), George Malliaras (ENSM St-Etienne, France), David Martin (Univ. of Delaware), Paul Meredith (Univ. of Queensland, Australia), Michele Muccini (Inst. for Nanostructured Materials CNR-Bologna, Italy), Serdar Sariciftci (Johannes Kepler Univ. Linz, Austria), Andrew Steckl (Univ. of Cincinnati).

Symposium Organizers

Christopher J. Bettinger
Carnegie Mellon University
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Wean Hall, Rm. 4315, 5000 Forbes Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Tel 412-268-7677, Fax 412-268-7596
cbetting@andrew.cmu.edu  

John Rogers
University of Illinois
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Rm. 308, 1304 W. Green St.
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel 217-244-4979, Fax 217-333-2736
jrogers@illinois.edu 

Mihai Irimia-Vladu
Johannes Kepler University
Soft Mater Physics and Linz Institute for Organic Solar Cells
Altenberger Str. Nr. 69
4040 Linz, Austria
Tel 43-732-2468-8767, Fax 43-732-2468-8770
mihai.irimia-vladu@jku.at  

Luisa Torsi
Università di Bari "Aldo Moro"
Dipto. di Chimica
Via Orabona 4
I-70126 Bari, Italy
Tel/Fax 39-080-5442092
torsi@chimica.uniba.it