Green Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Organic Transistors. Issue 2 (28th July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Torricelli, Fabrizio; Alessandri, Ivano; Macchia, Eleonora; Vassalini, Irene; Maddaloni, Marina; Torsi, Luisa
• Is Part Of: Advanced materials technologies. Volume 7:Issue 2(2022)
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• Publication Date: 2021-07-28
• Subjects: green materials -- green technologies -- sustainable organic transistors; Materials science -- Periodicals; Technological innovations -- Periodicals; Materials science; Technological innovations; Periodicals; 620.1105
• DOI: 10.1002/admt.202100445
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2365-709X

Abstract

Abstract: Intelligent objects, autonomous factories and humans browsing the real world with artificial technology‐based capabilities is not the movie set of a new saga but what is going to happen with next‐generation electronics and bioelectronics fabricated with emerging materials, technologies, and devices. The emergence of (bio)electronics as a ubiquitous feature of an advanced modern society is posing the challenge of managing an ever‐increasing amount of e‐waste, also making the recovery more and more difficult. Thus, new design approaches are required considering that a possibly small but significant fraction of mass‐scale e‐products is inherently impossible to recover. In this perspective, organic materials and technologies can provide important solutions. This review presents and analyses green materials and technologies underpinning the development of sustainable organic transistors, which promise to become key components for Earth‐safe wide‐spread electronics and bioelectronics. Abstract : Research progress of green materials and technologies underpinning the development of sustainable organic transistors – key components for wide‐spread electronics and bioelectronics – is reviewed. The focus is on the rational design of organic transistors entirely (or almost entirely) fabricated with green sources and through green processes, which can be biodegraded, disassembled, and recycled in a circular production of added‐value technological products.