The
electronics era is flourishing and morphing itself into Internet
of Everything, IoE. At the same time, questions arise on the issue
of electronic materials employed: especially their natural availability
and low-cost fabrication, their functional stability in devices, and
finally their desired biodegradation at the end of their life cycle.
Hydrogen bonded pigments and natural dyes like indigo, anthraquinone
and acridone are not only biodegradable and of bio-origin but also
have functionality robustness and offer versatility in designing electronics
and sensors components. With this Perspective, we intend to coalesce
all the scattered reports on the above-mentioned classes of hydrogen
bonded semiconductors, spanning across several disciplines and many
active research groups. The article will comprise both published and
unpublished results, on stability during aging, upon electrical, chemical
and thermal stress, and will finish with an outlook section related
to biological degradation and biological stability of selected hydrogen
bonded molecules employed as semiconductors in organic electronic
devices. We demonstrate that when the purity, the long-range order
and the strength of chemical bonds, are considered, then the Hydrogen
bonded organic semiconductors are the privileged class of materials
having the potential to compete with inorganic semiconductors. As
an experimental historical study of stability, we fabricated and characterized
organic transistors from a material batch synthesized in 1932 and
compared the results to a fresh material batch.