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Rylene and related diimides for organic electronics.
Xiaowei Zhan,Antonio Facchetti,Stephen Barlow,Tobin J. Marks,Mark A. Ratner,Michael R. Wasielewski,Seth R. Marder +6 more
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In this review, recent developments in the area of high-electron-mobility diimides based on rylenes and related aromatic cores, particularly perylene- and naphthalene-diimide-based small molecules and polymers, for application in high-performance organic field-effect transistors and photovoltaic cells are summarized and analyzed.Citations
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An electron acceptor challenging fullerenes for efficient polymer solar cells.
TL;DR: A novel non-fullerene electron acceptor (ITIC) that overcomes some of the shortcomings of fullerene acceptors, for example, weak absorption in the visible spectral region and limited energy-level variability, is designed and synthesized.
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Oxide Semiconductor Thin‐Film Transistors: A Review of Recent Advances
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Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells
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Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability
TL;DR: A nonfullerene-based polymer solar cell (PSC) that significantly outperforms fullerene -based PSCs with respect to the power-conversion efficiency and excellent thermal stability is demonstrated for the first time.
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Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics
TL;DR: This review summarizes the developments in small molecular donors, acceptors, and donor-acceptor dyad systems for high-performance multilayer, bulk heterojunction, and single-component OPVs and focuses on correlations of molecular chemical structures with properties, such as absorption, energy levels, charge mobilities, and photovoltaic performances.
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A high-mobility electron-transporting polymer for printed transistors
He Yan,Zhihua Chen,Yan Zheng,Chris Newman,Jordan R. Quinn,Florian Dötz,Marcel Kastler,Antonio Facchetti +7 more
TL;DR: A highly soluble and printable n-channel polymer exhibiting unprecedented OTFT characteristics under ambient conditions in combination with Au contacts and various polymeric dielectrics is reported and all-printed polymeric complementary inverters have been demonstrated.
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Self-Organized Discotic Liquid Crystals for High-Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics
Lukas Schmidt-Mende,Andreas Fechtenkötter,Klaus Müllen,Ellen Moons,Richard H. Friend,J. D. MacKenzie +5 more
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.
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Electron and ambipolar transport in organic field-effect transistors.
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Perylene bisimide dyes as versatile building blocks for functional supramolecular architectures
TL;DR: Perylene bisimide dyes and their organization into supramolecular architectures through hydrogen-bonding, metal ion coordination and pi-pi-stacking is discussed; further self-assembly leading to nano- and meso-scopic structures and liquid-crystalline compounds is also addressed.
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Stability of n-type doped conducting polymers and consequences for polymeric microelectronic devices
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived the stability requirements on electrode potentials of n-type doped conducting polymers and compared the predictions with experimental data on stability of polymers, and showed that an electrode potential of about 0 to + 0.5 V (SCE) is required for stable polymers.