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8 Organic Electronics in Memories and Sensing
Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
8.1 Functional Organic Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300
8.1.1 Organic Semiconductors . . . . . . . . . . . 300
8.1.2 DNA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
8.1.3 Electroactive Polymers . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
8.2 Single-Element Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
8.2.1 Memory Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
8.2.2 Single-Element Temperature and
Pressure Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
8.2.3 Light Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
8.3 Large-Area Pressure and Temperature
Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
8.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
9 Luminescent Conjugated Polymers for Staining
and Characterization of Amyloid Deposits . . . . . . . 329
9.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
9.2 Luminescent Conjugated Polymers . . . . . . . . 330

9.2.1 Definition and Examples . . . . . . . . . . 330
9.2.2 Optical Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
9.2.3 Conjugated Polymers as Optical
Sensors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
9.3 Amyloid Fibrils and Protein Aggregation
Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
9.3.1 Formation of Amyloid Fibrils . . . . . . 339
9.3.2 Protein Aggregation Diseases . . . . . . 341
9.3.3 Methods for Detection and Structural
Characterization of Amyloid Fibrils . . . 343
9.4 Luminescent Conjugated Polymers as

Amyloid Specific Dyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
9.4.1 Detection of Amyloid Fibrils in
Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344
9.4.2 Histological Staining of Amyloid
Deposits in Tissue Samples . . . . . . . . . 348
9.4.3 Toward in Vivo Staining of Amyloid
Deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354

10 Electrophoretically Deposited Polymers
for Organic Electronics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
10.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 361
10.2 Electrophoretic Deposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 363