Stability of organic solar cells: challenges and strategies

P Cheng, X Zhan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) present some advantages, such as simple preparation, light
weight, low cost and large-area flexible fabrication, and have attracted much attention in …

Glass transition phenomenon for conjugated polymers

Z Qian, Z Cao, L Galuska, S Zhang… - … Chemistry and Physics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Conjugated polymers are emerging as promising building blocks for a broad range of
modern applications including skin‐like electronics, wearable optoelectronics, and sensory …

On the glass transition of polymer semiconductors and its impact on polymer solar cell stability

C Müller - Chemistry of Materials, 2015 - ACS Publications
The glass transition temperature is a critical processing parameter that governs the kinetics
of molecular organization of polymer semiconductors during solidification. Yet, little attention …

Machine learning prediction of glass transition temperature of conjugated polymers from chemical structure

A Alesadi, Z Cao, Z Li, S Zhang, H Zhao, X Gu… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2022 - cell.com
Predicting the glass transition temperature (T g) is of critical importance as it governs the
thermomechanical performance of conjugated polymers (CPs). Here, we report a predictive …

Linking Glass‐Transition Behavior to Photophysical and Charge Transport Properties of High‐Mobility Conjugated Polymers

M Xiao, A Sadhanala, M Abdi‐Jalebi… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The measurement of the mechanical properties of conjugated polymers can reveal highly
relevant information linking optoelectronic properties to underlying microstructures and the …

Conformational disorder enhances solubility and photovoltaic performance of a thiophene–quinoxaline copolymer

E Wang, J Bergqvist, K Vandewal, Z Ma… - Advanced Energy …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The side‐chain architecture of alternating copolymers based on thiophene and quinoxaline
(TQ) is found to strongly influence the solubility and photovoltaic performance. In particular …

A Triple Axial Chirality, Racemic Molecular Semiconductor Based on Thiahelicene and Ethylenedioxythiophene for Perovskite Solar Cells: Microscopic Insights on …

A Zheng, X Xie, Y Wang, N Xu, J Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
For the low‐cost fabrication of large‐area, durable perovskite solar cells, it is of pivotal
importance to engineer organic semiconducting films with a combined property of matched …

Nanoporous silver thin films: Multifunctional platforms for influencing chain morphology and optical properties of conjugated polymers

Z Shen, DM O'Carroll - Advanced Functional Materials, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Disordered nanoporous silver (NPAg) thin films fabricated by a thermally assisted dewetting
method are employed as a platform to influence chain alignment, morphology, and optical …

Measuring and simulating morphology gradients in injection‐molded talc‐reinforced isotactic polypropylene

H Granlund, E Andreassen… - Journal of Polymer …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Injection molded polymer parts are known to exhibit structural gradients of crystallinity,
crystallite phases and crystallite orientations. The structural variations depend on the …

Charge transport and mechanical property study of high mobility conjugated polymers

M Xiao - 2020 - repository.cam.ac.uk
In this work, we systematically investigated the mechanical and electronic properties of a
range of high performance conjugated polymers. We use state-of-the-art characterisation …