Yuxiang Liu

TL;DR: A polythiophene derivative containing thermally removable branched ester solubilizing groups has been prepared and tested as a processable organic semiconductor polymer with tunable electronic and chemical properties for hybrid polymer-inorganic solar cells.

TL;DR: In this article, the hole mobility in regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) can be enhanced by a factor of 20 by infiltrating it into straight nanopores of anodic alumina.

TL;DR: In this article, a well-ordered array of organic and inorganic semiconductors is used to increase the efficiency of polymer photovoltaic cells, where almost all excitons formed are close enough to the organic-inorganic interface to be dissociated by electron transfer and all charge carriers have an uninterrupted pathway to the electrodes.

TL;DR: In this article, high-resolution TEM studies were conducted on a Philips Tecnai F30 analytical TEM at an operating voltage of 300 kV and on a TEM EM420 electron microscope at a voltage of 120 kV.

TL;DR: This work demonstrates that care must be taken when using carboxylic acid side groups to attach polymers to titania surfaces in photovoltaic cells, if the density of attachment groups is just enough to attach the polymer, then the benefits of the interface modifier can be realized without substantially decreasing the open-circuit voltage.