Organic and Polymer Materials for Plastic and Molecular Electronics Polymer 
Chemistry Division
ACS Fall Meeting, 2003
New York City, from September 7-11, 2003 

Deadline for abstract and preprint submission: May 2, 2003. 

General information on the 226th ACS meeting can be found at this address:
http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm

Please select Progam: POLY or use this link directly: 
http://oasys.acs.org/acs/226nm/poly/papers/index.cgi 

Then select topic:
Oral: Organic and Polymer Materials for Plastic and Molecular Electronics
and ‘submit topic selection’ at the bottom of the page and follow the instructions 
to submit title, authors and abstract. 



This symposium will address the chemistry, physics, and electronic and memory 
applications of molecules and molecular materials. Chemical synthesis enables the 
properties of individual molecules to be tailored and their organization onto 
surfaces and into bulk materials to be engineered. The preparation of 
semiconducting and metallic molecular systems that transport electrons and holes 
are exciting components for transistor and memory applications. Organic 
semiconductors and carbon nanotubes are attractive semiconducting channel 
materials for thin film transistors (TFTs), yet there are many challenges to 
controlling interfaces and contacts and achieving technologically viable TFTs. 
Organic semiconductors promise low-cost processing and flexible applications, but 
similarly low-cost, low-temperature patterning techniques must also be developed. 
Molecular monolayers toward single molecules show interesting switching behavior 
for memory and perhaps, one day, transistor applications. Fundamental 
understanding of charge transport in countable numbers of molecules and the 
physics and chemistry of electrical contacts are exciting questions. The self-
assembly or templating of molecules are important challenges toward fabricating 
controlled molecular device structures and eventually larger scale integration.

Confirmed invited speakers:

chemistry/synthesis
Peter Baeuerle (uni-ulm.de)
Klause Muellen (MPI)
Howard Katz (Lucent)
David Martin (U. Mich.)
Ali Afzali (IBM)
Luping Yu (U. Chicago)
Ruud Tromp (IBM)
Fraser Stoddart (UCLA)
Ben Ong (Xerox)

Devices and fabrication
Paul Blom (Groningen)
Lynn Loo (UT-Austin)
Graciela Blanchet (Du Pont)
Dan Gamota (Motorola)
Michael Kane (Sarnoff)
Ananth Dodabalapur (UT Austin)

Molecular Electronics
Nikolai Zhitenev (Lucent)
Eric Garfunkel (Rutgers)
Supriyo Datta (Purdue)
Marcel Mayor (Karlsburg Germany)


Organizers:

Zhenan Bao
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
600 Mountain Avenue, 1A261
Murray Hill, NJ 07974
Phone: 908-582-4716
Fax: 908-582-4868

Cherie R. Kagan
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
1101 Kitchawan Road
P.O. Box 218, Route 134
Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Phone: 914-945-3003
Fax : 914-945-2141

Bert de Boer
Physics of Organic Semiconductors
Materials Science Centre
University of Groningen
Nijenborgh 4, NL-9747 AG
Groningen, the Netherlands
Phone: +31 50 3634370
Fax: +31 50 3638751