More efficient solar and opto-electronic devices thanks to new molecular property

Chemists and polymer scientists collaborating at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report in Nature Communications this week that they have for the first time identified an unexpected property in an organic semiconductor molecule, directional intrinsic charge separation, in crystalline nanowires of an organic semiconductor known as 7,8,15,16-tetraazaterrylene (TAT).
This property could lead to more efficient and cost-effective materials for use in cell phone and laptop displays, for example, and in opto-electronic devices such as lasers, light-emitting diodes and fiber optic communications.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uoma-nmp022316.php

Journal article: http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160225/ncomms10629/full/ncomms10629.html