High stability resistive switching mechanism of a screen-printed electrode based on BOBZBT organic pentamer for creatinine detection.

The resistive switching (RS) mechanism is resulted from the formation and dissolution of a conductive filament due to the electrochemical redox-reactions and can be identified with a pinched hysteresis loop on the I-V characteristic curve. In this work, the RS behaviour was demonstrated using a screen-printed electrode (SPE) and was utilized for creatinine sensing application. The working electrode (WE) of the SPE has been modified with a novel small organic molecule, 1,4-bis[2-(5-thiophene-2-yl)-1-benzothiopene]-2,5-dioctyloxybenzene (BOBzBT).

A Mini Review: Can Graphene Be a Novel Material for Perovskite Solar Cell Applications?

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have raised research interest in scientific community because their power conversion efficiency is comparable to that of traditional commercial solar cells (i.e., amorphous Si, GaAs, and CdTe).

1,4-Dibromo-2,5-dibut-oxy-benzene.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(14)H(20)Br(2)O(2), contains one half-mol-ecule located on an inversion centre. The mol-ecule is essentially planar, with a maximum deviation from the best plane of the non-H atoms of 0.054 (2) Å for the O atoms.

2,2'-[2,5-Bis(hex-yloxy)-1,4-phenyl-ene]dithio-phene.

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C(26)H(34)O(2)S(2), comprises one half-mol-ecule located on an inversion centre. The thio-phene groups are twisted relative to the benzene ring, making a dihedral angle of 5.30 (7)°, and the n-hexyl groups are in a fully extended conformation.

3,5-Dibromo-2-[2,5-dibut-oxy-4-(3,5-dibromo-thio-phen-2-yl)phen-yl]thio-phene.

The title mol-ecule, C(22)H(22)Br(4)O(2)S(2), is centrosymmetric with an inversion centre located at the centre of the benzene ring. The 3,5-dibromo-thio-phene groups are twisted relative to the benzene ring, making a dihedral angle of 41.43 (9)°.