ABSTRACT
Hybrid nanocomposites, comprising of semiconducting polymers and inorganic materials, offer favourable perspective for the development of highly efficient opto-electronic devices through its tunable band gap, charge carrier mobility, increased charge carrier concentration in combination with an easy processability in large area, flexibility, light weight and low cost. The synergistic properties arising from the designed structures are expected to exhibit properties and functions which are superior to its individual components. The incentive to co-assemble organic and inorganic semiconducting materials in the molecular level by tuning the interfacial interactions on the nanoscale can control the band gap and morphology for the formation of a highly efficient novel class of active materials for various electronic devices. The presence of conjugated polymer is expected to enhance the solution processability, light weight, flexibility, and low cost whereas the inorganic counter parts are endowed with unique opto-electronic, chemical and mechanical properties. The present chapter illustrates an overview of nanostructured semiconducting polymer-inorganic composites, its fundamental aspects on the properties and applications such as photocatalysts, opto-electronic devices such as memory, thermoelectric, organic field effect transistors, organic light emitting diodes, solar cell and so forth.
