J. D. MacKenzie

TL;DR: Self-organization of liquid crystalline and crystalline-conjugated materials has been used to create, directly from solution, thin films with structures optimized for use in photodiodes, demonstrating that complex structures can be engineered from novel materials by means of simple solution-processing steps and may enable inexpensive, high-performance, thin-film photovoltaic technology.

TL;DR: The emission color of fluorene-based polymers can be facilely tuned across the whole visible spectrum by copolymerization with perylene dyes by using efficient energy transfer for the emission to come solely from the dye units.

TL;DR: In this paper, the interplay between phase separation in polyfluorene blends which show photoinduced charge transfer and photovoltaic performance in photodiodes has been investigated, and the structure of the blend films was investigated using fluorescence microscopy, fluorescence scanning near-field optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy.

TL;DR: The influence of device structure on the open-circuit voltage of polyfluorene-based photovoltaic devices has been investigated in this paper, where hole-and electron-accepting polyfluororenes have been fabricated using an aqueous “float-off” lamination technique and subsequently incorporated into organic PV devices with a range of cathodes and anodes.