At Prof. Kaneto's Lab we are basically working on two different areas of applications involving manly conducting polymers. One of the areas is that of Polymer semiconductors for the application of cheap, disposable, flexible, solution processed semiconductor devices. Some of the major breakthrough involving these materials have been in the device arena involving Polymeric Field Effect Transistors (PFETs), Polymeric Light Emitting Diodes (PLEDs) and Polymeric Solar Cells (PSCs). More recently memory and sensor related applications have also been envisioned using these materials. The other major application that involves use of conducting polymers is that of artificial muscles, for the possible applications in the field of Electroactive actuators. An actuator is a device that responds to the change in the potential by undergoing mechanical deformation. It is this deformation that can be suitably utilized iin varous application involving actuation.
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