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However, their operational instability remains a major challenge, primarily arising from poorly controlled semiconductor crystallization and stochastic conductive filament formation. Here, we report a high-performance solution-processed organic memristor based on a TIPS-pentacene\/PMMA\/CdSe-ZnS quantum-dot hybrid system, in which a dual-engineering strategy is employed to simultaneously regulate film crystallization and filament dynamics. Specifically, the PMMA matrix templates the molecular ordering of TIPS-pentacene to improve film uniformity and crystallinity, while CdSe\/ZnS quantum dots locally modulate the electric field to direct and confine conductive filament formation. As a result, the device exhibits ultralow and highly uniform switching voltages (0.473 V for set and \u22120.430 V for reset), suppressed device-to-device variation, long retention exceeding 104 s, and endurance over 1200 switching cycles. In addition, the memristor supports multilevel data storage and successfully emulates key synaptic functions, including long-term potentiation\/depression, paired-pulse facilitation, and spike-timing-dependent plasticity. This work provides a materials-level strategy for achieving reliable and low-power organic memristors, offering a viable route toward high-density nonvolatile memory and neuromorphic computing hardware.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma19143029","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,14]],"date-time":"2026-07-14T10:12:53Z","timestamp":1784023973000},"page":"3029","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Stable Low-Voltage Organic Memristors Enabled by Templated Crystallization and Quantum-Dot-Regulated Filament Formation"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Qi","family":"Lei","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yonghua","family":"Tu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zilong","family":"Yan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Junqing","family":"Wei","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Boning","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory for Photoelectric Materials & Devices, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9746-0385","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Haiwei","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2149-3663","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Yangyang","family":"Xie","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5593-7480","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Kailiang","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Tianjin Key Laboratory of Film Electronic and Communication Devices, School of Integrated Circuit Science and Engineering, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin 300384, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"2722","DOI":"10.1021\/acs.jpclett.5c00184","article-title":"Reconfigurable Al2O3-based memristor for all-in-one artificial synapse and nociceptor neurons","volume":"16","author":"Du","year":"2025","journal-title":"J. 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