Videos

Videos of the Black Forest Focus 8 workshop

The Black Forest Focus on Soft Matter 8 took place in Schluchsee, from 10 -14 October 2012. The workshop focused on "Electronic and Excitonic Transport in Soft Matter".

Click on the names below in bold to see the video of the talk. More videos will be added shortly.

Thursday, October 11:

• Mark Ratner (Northwestern University)
  "Transport in molecular species: Some Ideas about Coherence, Timescales and Mechanism"
• Elke Scheer (University of Konstanz)
  "Mechanical Control of Electronic Transport in Single-Molecule Devices"
• Michel Calame (University of Basel)
  "Insights into the electronic and mechanical structure of molecular junctions"
• Heinz Bässler (University of Bayreuth)
  "To hop or not to hop - the transport of charges and excitations in disordered organic solid"
• Michel Schott (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris - INSP)
  "Polydiacetylenes - from perfect Quantum Wires to applications"
• Rodolfo Jalabert (University of Strasbourg)
  "Scattering phase in a single electron transistor: signatures of wave-function correlations"
• Maurizio Prato (University of Trieste)
  "Functional materials based on carbon nanostructures"

Friday, October 12:

• Dirk Guldi (University of Erlangen)
  "Low dimensional nanocarbons in solar energy conversion schemes"
• Frank C. Spano (Temple University)
  "Interplay Between Intrachain and Interchain Interactions in Semiconducting Polymer Assemblies"
• Laurens Siebbeles (Delft University of Technology)
  "Photogeneration, motion and decay of excitons and charges in polymer based blend films and covalent organic frameworks"
• Carlos Silva (University of Montréal)
  "The molecular-weight-dependent interplay between intramolecular and intermolecular exciton spatial coherence in semicrystalline polymeric semiconductos"

Saturday, October 13:

• Fred Wudl (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  "Evolution of Charge Transport in Organic Solids"
• David Vanden Bout (University of Texas)
  "Optical and electronic properties of single conjugated polymers and aggregates"
• Jenny Nelson (Imperial College London)
  "Relationship between conjugated polymer chain conformation and charge mobility"
• Nobert Koch (Humboldt University Berlin)
  "Interface and bulk charge carrier density manipulation in organic semiconductors"
• Ullrich Steiner (University of Cambridge, UK)
  "Interplay of demixing and crystallisation in P3HT/PCBM blends"
• Natalie Stingelin (Imperial College London)
  "Solid-state structure development in polymer semiconductors and its influence on optoelectronic processes"
• Michael Sommer (University of Freiburg)
  "Synthesis and self-organization of monodisperse and defect-free semicrystalline conjugated polymers"
• Laurent Simon (Institut de Sciences des Matériaux de Mulhouse)
  "Supramolecular assembly based on oligothiophene molecules deposited on monolayer graphene substrate"