The combination of active molecules with electronic circuitry is opening up exciting new areas of science. Progress toward preparing and incorporating molecules as active components in electronic circuitry has advanced rapidly over the past five years, but still many difficulties need to be overcome to bring emerging science to innovative and viable technologies. Some molecular-based logic gates, memory circuits, rectifiers, sensors and many other fundamental components have been demonstrated while organic LEDs have reached the industry level. The molecular synthesis and assembling techniques, interfacing today’s existing technologies, such as silicon, are key issues to take advantage of the richness of chemically mastering the information storage and transfer at the nanoscale, and for processing information within the nanoelectronics environment.

Topics

The scope of this pluridisciplinary conference is to focus on the following topics :

• T1 Single Molecules & Quantum Dots : Junctions, Memories & Switches
• T2 Organic Electronics : Materials & Devices
• T3 Organic Optoelectronics & Photonics : Materials & Devices
• T4 Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes & Nanowires : Synthesis & Devices
• T5 Self-Assembly & Supramolecular Architectures
• T6 Scanning Probe Microscopies & Near Field Approaches
• T7 Molecular Theoretical Modelling
• T8 Bioinspired Approaches & Biomimetic Devices