New triphenylethylene-phenanthrocarbazole (PCTrPE) was the first small molecule that exhibited dual fluorescence emission in the solid state providing a new strategy to realize a single-molecule white emissive material for white OLEDs.

Microbial bioelectronics require interfacing microorganisms with electrodes. The resulting abiotic/biotic platforms provide the basis of a range of technologies, including energy conversion and diagnostic assays. Organic semiconductors (OSCs) provide a unique strategy to modulate the interfaces between microbial systems and external electrodes, thereby improving the performance of these incipient technologies. In this review, we explore recent progress in the field on how OSCs, and related materials capable of charge transport, are being used within the context of microbial systems, and more specifically bacteria. We begin by examining the electrochemical communication modes in bacteria and the biological basis for charge transport. Different types of synthetic organic materials that have been designed and synthesized for interfacing and interrogating bacteria are discussed next, followed by the most commonly used characterization techniques for evaluating transport in microbial, synthetic, and hybrid systems. A range of applications is subsequently examined, including biological sensors and energy conversion systems. The review concludes by summarizing what has been accomplished so far and suggests future design approaches for OSC bioelectronics materials and technologies that hybridize characteristic properties of microbial and OSC systems. CONTENTS 5.1. Biosensors 4806 5.2. Energy Conversion Applications 4810 6. Future Directions 4813 Author Information 4814 Corresponding Authors 4814 Authors 4814 Notes 4814 Biographies 4814 Acknowledgments 4815 References 4815

Reconfigurable organic logic devices are promising candidates for next generations of efficient computing systems and adaptive electronics. Ideally, such devices would be of simple structure and design, be power efficient, and compatible with high‐throughput microfabrication techniques. This work reports an organic reconfigurable logic gate based on novel dual‐mode organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), which employ a self‐doped conjugated polyelectrolyte as the active material, which then allows the transistors to operate in both depletion mode and enhancement mode. Furthermore, mode switching is accomplished by simply altering the polarity of the applied gate and drain voltages, which can be done on the fly. In contrast, achieving similar mode‐switching functionality with other organic transistors typically requires complex molecular design or multi‐device engineering. It in shown that dual‐mode functionality is enabled by the concurrent existence of anion doping and cation dedoping of the films. A device physics model that accurately describes the behavior of these transistors is developed. Finally, the utility of these dual‐mode transistors for implementing reconfigurable logic by fabricating a logic gate that may be switched between logic gates AND to NOR, and OR to NAND on the fly is demonstrated.

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New solution-processable chrysene-based deep-blue fluorescent dendrimers bearing chrysene as a core end-capped by carbazole dendrons were designed, synthesized, and characterized. These dendrimers exhibit strong deep-blue emissions in solution and thin film states with decent hole mobility and high thermal and electrochemical stability. They are effectively utilized as non-doped emitters in organic light-emitting diode (OLED). The simple structure non-doped OLEDs show good electroluminescence (EL) performances (luminance of 2334-2400 cd m-2, external quantum efficiency (EQE) of 1.88-2.51%, and turn-on voltage of 3.8-4.0 V) and deep-blue EL spectra (CIEy ≈ 0.065 - 0.075) with narrow full width at half maximum of 61-65 nm.