SUT was founded in 1945 and is regularly ranked as one of the most prestigious technical universities in Poland. SUT has a student body of 33,000 and 12 faculties. The Faculty of Chemistry and its Department of Physical Chemistry and Technology of Polymers are internationally recognised in the field of conducting polymers, their synthesis, doping and characterisation.

DTU is one of Europe’s foremost technical universities with more than 2000 scientific staff members and 1200 PhD students. DTU Energy focuses on education, research and development within functional materials and their application in sustainable energy technologies. Research topics include advanced characterization and development of fuel cells, electrolysis cells, redox flow batteries, next-generation encapsulated batteries, sustainable energy storage materials, as well as computational materials design. Research spans from fundamental investigations to component manufacture and the department places significant focus on industrial collaboration and industrially relevant processes. Professor Piotr de Silva who will be a leader of the group is leading computational research activities in the area of organic charge-transfer materials. He is specialising in the modelling of molecular materials for applications in OLEDs, development of density functional theory methodology, and chemical bonding analysis.

The University of Glasgow has been named Scottish University of the Year 2018 by The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
The Skabara group is best known for its ability to synthesise novel organic semiconductors. The materials encompass small to large molecules (up to 8,000 Da), well-defined and monodisperse oligomers and polymers prepared by chemical or electrochemical methods. Highlights of their work include organic lasers with several record-breaking lowest thresholds recorded, materials for LiFi, organic solar cells with highly promising efficiencies for molecular species, and field effect transistors with excellent air stability.

The department of chemistry (WE Chemie) the HHU Düsseldorf offers three degree programs, business chemistry, biochemistry, and chemistry. All three programs are very popular with around 200 students enrolling per academic year. One of the research and teaching foci at the school of chemistry is “molecular photonics and excited state-processes (MPESP)”. At the department, there is expertise in inorganic (3 professors), organic (3), physical (5), theoretical (2), polymer (1), and biochemistry (2). One research focus of the department is the interaction between molecules and light as well as resulting processes.

The University of Durham is a member of the prestigious Russel Group and is ranked 5th in the UK (Complete University Guide 2015) and a World 100 University (QS World Rankings 2014). The Department of Physics in Durham is one of the leading physics and astronomy departments in the UK. Professor Monkman’s research group is one of the world’s leading groups for spectroscopic studies of OLED and OPV materials, especially studies of triplet exciton properties in materials and devices

University of Auckland (UoA) is the largest, most comprehensive and highest-ranked university in New Zealand and consistently places among the Top 100 universities in the world by QS World Rankings. The institution was established in 1883 as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand. School of Chemical Sciences (SCS), The University of Auckland, teaches and performs research in chemistry, medicinal chemistry, green chemical science, polymers, food science and nutrition, forensic science, and wine science. It is the largest chemistry department in the country. Professor Jadranka Travas-Sejdic is Director of the Polymer Biointerface Center at The University of Auckland (a cross-disciplinary research centre spanning three faculties at the University of Auckland; Science, Engineering and Medical and Health Sciences) and a Principal Investigator of the New Zealand Centre of Research Excellence – MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology. Her research interests are in the field of advanced polymeric materials, including conducting polymers for biosensing and bioelectronics, electrically and environmentally responsive polymers and smart materials for actuators and tissue engineering.

Osaka University is the sixth oldest university in Japan, having originally been founded in 1724. The 63rd best university in the world according to the QS World University Rankings® 2018. The Department of Applied Chemistry at Osaka University is internationally well recognized in the field of all kinds of chemistry including synthetic organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, functional material chemistry, physical organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and applied electrochemistry. The group led by Prof. Takeda is an expert of design, synthesis, and characterization of novel organic p-conjugated functional compounds and polymers for optoelectronic applications.

The Department of Chemistry in National Taiwan University is the leading chemistry  department in Taiwan for the developments of small-molecule materials for OLED and OPV working closely with the leading research groups for organic electronics and Taiwanese OLED companies.

The research groups of UFSC participant of this project are consolidated in the application of new organic molecular or hybrid systems in electronic devices such as OLEDs, OPVs and OFETs. Semiempirical and molecular dynamics techniques are used to study charge and energy transfer in large scale molecular systems.

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