Solution-processable components for organic electronic devices

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This work offers valuable insights into advanced fabrication techniques for solution-processable organic electronics materials and devices, highlighting the significant role of printable organic electronics in materials science. This technology is poised to compete with conventional semiconductor devices, often surpassing them in performance, cost, and versatility for specific applications. Printing techniques enable large-scale production of organic electronic components for various uses, including wearable electronics, healthcare sensors, and environmental monitoring, as well as future applications yet to be imagined. The first section covers the synthesis of soluble conjugated polymers, solution-processable inorganic semiconductor nanoparticles, high-k nanoparticles through controlled radical polymerization, and advanced blending techniques that produce novel materials with exceptional properties. It also explores charge carrier photogeneration in nanostructured bulk heterojunctions and transport in multicomponent materials, including composites and photovoltaic device modeling. The second section focuses on organic electronic devices such as field-effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, photodiodes, and electronic memory devices, all produced via solution-based methods like printing and roll-to-roll manufacturing. Comprising 12 chapters, this comprehensive resource is ideal for both experienced resear