Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors can simultaneously transport ionic and electronic charges, thus enabling exciting new opportunities for energy harvesting and storage and bio-/opto-electronic applications. This symposium aims to provide a forum for discussing interdisciplinary research in organic ionic, electronic, and mixed ionic-electronic conductors. The emphasis of this symposium will be on the following:
- Provide a theoretical framework for the wide range of ionic, electronic, and mixed ionic-electronic transport processes in organic conductors.
- Understand the fundamental mechanisms of electrical (molecular) and electrochemical doping.
- Explore the impact of chemical functionality, (macro)molecular structure, and film morphology on ionic, electronic, and mixed ionic-electronic transport.
- Discuss the challenges and opportunities for in-operando characterization of organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors, including spectroscopy, scattering, microbalance, microprobe, and electron microscopy.
- Electrical/electrochemical doping
- Structure-property relationships
- In-operando characterization
- Charge transport theory
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Gabriel Gomila has got a PhD in Physics from the University of Barcelona (1997) with a thesis based on the theoretical modelling of electron transport at semiconductor interfaces. Later on, he was post-doctoral researcher at three different universities in Italy, France and Spain where he specialized in the theoretical modelling of nanoescale electronic devices. In 2001 he moved to the Department of Electronics at the University of Barcelona thanks to a Ramon y Cajal fellowship, where he expanded his research interests towards the merge of electronics and biological fields, thus focusing on microsystems for biological applications on-a-chip and on Atomic Force Microscopy for the electrical study of biological samples. In 2005 he became Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona and in 2008 Group Leader at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalunya (IBEC). In 2014 and 2022 he was awarded with the ICREA Academia prize, which recognizes and promotes the research excellence of the university staff of Catalonia. Since 2017 he is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics of the University of Barcelona. His current research interests are centred on the understanding of the bioelectrical phenomena at the nanoscale. He combines research activities with teaching on Nanobiotechnology, Scanning Probe Microscopy, Bioelectricity and Nanomedicine at the University of Barcelona.
Jenny Nelson is a Professor of Physics at Imperial College London, where she has researched novel varieties of material for use in solar cells since 1989. Her current research is focussed on understanding the properties of molecular semiconductor materials and their application to organic solar cells. This work combines fundamental electrical, spectroscopic and structural studies of molecular electronic materials with numerical modelling and device studies, with the aim of optimising the performance of plastic solar cells. She has published around 200 articles in peer reviewed journals, several book chapters and a book on the physics of solar cells.