Special issue: Organic materials for electronics

The seminal 1986 paper by Prof. Ching Tang describing organic photocells and the subsequent paper published in1987 describing organic solar cells were published during the days when most scientists considered organic materials to be not worth the effort. Even the report of polymer transistors in 1988 and polymer LEDs in 1990, by Friend's group, didn't make much impact on the perception of the general scientific community. Over the following decade a relatively small group of “fanatics”, most of which being chemists and physicists and a few engineers, devoted their efforts to developing materials and devices that would be good enough to convince more scientists and engineers to join the game