Date and time: 2 May 2024, 10:00 – 12:00
Venue: TU Delft Campus, Lecture hall E, building 22, room F005
Objective: Electronics is striving for enhanced sustainability and functionality. Organic conductors offer benefits over traditional silicon-based electrons, but a fundamental problem is how to achieve high electrical conductivity within a carbon-based material. In this mini-symposium, we present some important recent breakthroughs. New charge transport mechanisms are proposed that enable high conduction in organic crystals, while also microbial evolution seems to have discovered a miraculous way to make organic materials highly conductive.
10:00 – 10:45 Prof. Jochen Blumberger (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, UK)
The perspective of chemistry: “Highly efficient conduction in organic crystals: charge transport in the transient delocalization regime”
10:45 – 11:30 Prof. Filip Meysman (Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
The perspective of biology: “Highly efficient conduction in natural protein structures: centimeter-scale conduction in cable bacteria”