Tuning the thermal conductivity of solar cell polymers through side chain engineering

Thiophene-Thiazolothiazole Copolymers: Significant Impact of Side Chain Composition on Backbone Orientation and Solar Cell Performances

(2014) Itaru Osaka et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

High-Contrast, Reversible Thermal Conductivity Regulation Utilizing the Phase Transition of Polyethylene Nanofibers

(2013) Teng Zhang et al.   ACS Nano

Thermal transport in organic semiconducting polymers

(2013) John C. Duda et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Gallium arsenide thermal conductivity and optical phonon relaxation times from first-principles calculations

(2013) Tengfei Luo et al.   EPL

Controlling Conformations of Conjugated Polymers and Small Molecules: The Role of Nonbonding Interactions

(2013) Nicholas E. Jackson et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Linear Side Chains in Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene–Thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6-dione Polymers Direct Self-Assembly and Solar Cell Performance

(2013) Clément Cabanetos et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Thermal Conductivity of High-Modulus Polymer Fibers

(2013) Xiaojia Wang et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Nanoscale heat transfer – from computation to experiment

(2013) Tengfei Luo et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Exceptionally Low Thermal Conductivities of Films of the Fullerene Derivative PCBM

(2013) John C. Duda et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

A polymer tandem solar cell with 10.6% power conversion efficiency

(2013) Jingbi You et al.   Nature Communications

Thermopower enhancement in conducting polymer nanocomposites via carrier energy scattering at the organic–inorganic semiconductor interface

(2012) Ming He et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Origins of thermal boundary conductance of interfaces involving organic semiconductors

(2012) Yansha Jin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Morphology-influenced thermal conductivity of polyethylene single chains and crystalline fibers

(2012) Teng Zhang et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Influence of a ternary donor material on the morphology of a P3HT:PCBM blend for organic photovoltaic devices

(2012) Florian Machui et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Accurate Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Forcefield from First-Principle Modeling

(2012) Tran Thinh To et al.   Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Letters

P3HT:PCBM, Best Seller in Polymer Photovoltaic Research

(2011) Minh Trung Dang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Optical Measurement of Thermal Conductivity Using Fiber Aligned Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance

(2011) Jonathan A. Malen et al.   JOURNAL OF HEAT TRANSFER-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

Alkyl Side Chain Impact on the Charge Transport and Photovoltaic Properties of Benzodithiophene and Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Copolymers

(2011) Zhao Li et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Side-Chain Tunability of Furan-Containing Low-Band-Gap Polymers Provides Control of Structural Order in Efficient Solar Cells

(2011) Alan T. Yiu et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Hierarchical Nanomorphologies Promote Exciton Dissociation in Polymer/Fullerene Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

(2011) Wei Chen et al.   NANO LETTERS

Optimization of the thermoelectric figure of merit in the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)

(2011) Olga Bubnova et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

A New Class of Semiconducting Polymers for Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells with Exceptionally High Performance

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

When Function Follows Form: Effects of Donor Copolymer Side Chains on Film Morphology and BHJ Solar Cell Performance

(2010) Jodi M. Szarko et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

For the Bright Future-Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells with Power Conversion Efficiency of 7.4%

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Water-Processable Polymer−Nanocrystal Hybrids for Thermoelectrics

(2010) Kevin C. See et al.   NANO LETTERS

Polyethylene nanofibres with very high thermal conductivities

(2010) Sheng Shen et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

A comparative MD study of the local structure of polymer semiconductors P3HT and PBTTT

(2010) Khanh Do et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Tuning the thermal conductivity of polymers with mechanical strains

(2010) Jun Liu et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW B

Electrical and Thermoelectric Properties of Poly(2,7-Carbazole) Derivatives

(2009) Réda Badrou Aïch et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Computational Study of the Structure and Charge-Transfer Parameters in Low-Molecular-Mass P3HT

(2009) David L. Cheung et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Highly Efficient Solar Cell Polymers Developed via Fine-Tuning of Structural and Electronic Properties

(2009) Yongye Liang et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Synthesis, Characterization, and Photovoltaic Properties of a Low Band Gap Polymer Based on Silole-Containing Polythiophenes and 2,1,3-Benzothiadiazole

(2008) Jianhui Hou et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Charge Transport, Photovoltaic, and Thermoelectric Properties of Poly(2,7‐Carbazole) and Poly(Indolo[3,2‐b]Carbazole) Derivatives

(2008) Salem Wakim et al.   Polymer Reviews

Pulse accumulation, radial heat conduction, and anisotropic thermal conductivity in pump-probe transient thermoreflectance

(2008) Aaron J. Schmidt et al.   REVIEW OF SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS