Prof. Simone Fabiano Linköping University, Sweden   Abstract Biointegrated neuromorphic hardware holds promise for new protocols to record and regulate signaling in biological systems. Traditional neuromorphic systems relying on silicon face limitations in bio-integration due to circuit complexity, poor biocompatibility, and low energy efficiency. Organic mixed ionic-electronic conductors (OMIECs), owing to their structural resemblance to biomolecules and coupled ionic-electronic transport functionalities, offer an excellent solution for bridging electronics and biology, facilitating energy-efficient signal transduction. In this presentation, I will explore…

Prof. Eric Vauthey University of Geneva Abstract A large number of symmetric molecular architectures, including the reaction centre of photosynthetic bacteria, undergo photoinduced charge transfer along one of several energetically equivalent pathways, resulting in a breaking of the symmetry. Some of our efforts toward a better understanding of the origin and dynamics of these processes will be presented. Two types of photoinduced symmetry-breaking charge-transfer process occurring in symmetric molecular systems will be addressed. The first concerns charge separation between two…