The added value of small-molecule chirality in technological applications

JR Brandt, F Salerno, MJ Fuchter - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2017 - nature.com
Chirality is a fundamental symmetry property; chiral objects, such as chiral small molecules,
exist as a pair of non-superimposable mirror images. Although small-molecule chirality is …

Molecular semiconductors for logic operations: dead‐end or bright future?

G Schweicher, G Garbay, R Jouclas, F Vibert… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The field of organic electronics has been prolific in the last couple of years, leading to the
design and synthesis of several molecular semiconductors presenting a mobility in excess of …

Rationally Tailoring Chiral Molecules to Minimize Interfacial Energy Loss Enables Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells Using Vacuum Flash Technology

X Zhao, Z Zhang, Y Zhu, F Meng, M Li, C Wang… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Facing the defects and energy barrier at the interface of perovskite solar cells, we propose a
chiral molecule engineering strategy to simultaneously heal interfacial defects and regulate …

Supramolecular energy materials

O Dumele, J Chen, JV Passarelli… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is a bioinspired strategy to craft materials for renewable and clean energy
technologies. In plants, the alignment and assembly of the light‐harvesting protein …

Microtubular self‐assembly of covalent organic frameworks

B Gole, V Stepanenko, S Rager… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Despite significant progress in the synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), reports
on the precise construction of template‐free nano‐and microstructures of such materials …

Enantiomerically Pure Fullerenes as a Means to Enhance the Performance of Perovskite Solar Cells

W Shi, Q Zhuang, R Zhou, X Hou… - Advanced Energy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The rapidly advancing improvements in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are driven, in part, by
the inclusion of suitable electron transport layers (ETLs) in high performance devices …

Emergent properties of an organic semiconductor driven by its molecular chirality

Y Yang, B Rice, X Shi, JR Brandt, R Correa da Costa… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Chiral molecules exist as pairs of nonsuperimposable mirror images; a fundamental
symmetry property vastly underexplored in organic electronic devices. Here, we show that …

Fused‐Ring Electron‐Acceptor Single Crystals with Chiral 2D Supramolecular Organization for Anisotropic Chiral Optoelectronic Devices

L Liu, Y Yang, SCJ Meskers, Q Wang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Supramolecular chiral organization gives π‐conjugated molecules access to fascinating
specific interactions with circularly polarized light (CPL). Such a feature enables the …

Stereoisomeric Non‐Fullerene Acceptors‐Based Organic Solar Cells

L Liu, Y Yan, S Zhao, T Wang, W Zhang, J Zhang… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chiral alkyl chains are ubiquitously observed in organic semiconductor materials and can
regulate solution processability and active layer morphology, but the effect of stereoisomers …

A–π–D–π–A Electron‐Donating Small Molecules for Solution‐Processed Organic Solar Cells: A Review

Z Wang, L Zhu, Z Shuai, Z Wei - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells based on semiconducting polymers and small molecules have attracted
considerable attention in the last two decades. Moreover, the power conversion efficiencies …