Organic Nanomolecular Electronics: From Fundamental Aspects to Device Applications

The organic photofunctional materials bearing the fl exibility, softness and capability of facile large active area fabrication will bene fi t the fi elds of biomedical/biomimetic devices like sensors, soft actuators, and fl exible and wearable optoelectronic devices, which are cumbersome to achieve utilizing conventional inorganic semiconductors. It is worth to mention that that the functions of optoelectronic devices mostly originate from electronic states at the interface between constituent organic materials by the depth of the nanometric region. The intricate interactions and cooperative existence amongst various components of the living organism indicate the possibility of the realization of ef fi - cient multifunctional devices. Therefore, the investigations of electronic behaviour, mass transport, energy transfer and molecular alignments near the interface are signi fi cantly important and suggest to us the unknown functions that can be developed into molecular electronics. This special issue has been dedicated to the 13th International Conference on Nano-Molecular Electronics (ICNME-2022), which was held from December 12-14, 2022 at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ookayama, Tokyo, Japan. The conference was of the open style and provided a unique platform for researchers from industry and academia interested in fundamental and applied aspects of functional organic materials, including liquid crystals, polymeric materials, biomaterials etc. to interact and exchange scienti fi c ideas. The program of this conference consisted of the plenary talk, keynote lecture, invited talk, oral and poster presentations. The conference consisted of 8 versatile sessions such as organic semiconductor materials and devices I & II, Fabrication and characterization of organic and molecular devices I & II, Bioelectronics, AI and materials informatics, Organic-Inorganic hybrid material and applications, and Haptic, wearable, fl exible devices and applications. A total of 125 papers (39 Oral and 86 poster) have been contributed from universities, research laboratories and companies in Japan and overseas. The topics of electrical, optical, and physical properties at