Electronic and optoelectronic materials and devices inspired by nature

Molecular Design of Photovoltaic Materials for Polymer Solar Cells: Toward Suitable Electronic Energy Levels and Broad Absorption

(2012) Yongfang Li   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

The Artificial Leaf

(2012) Daniel G. Nocera   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Improving the Performance of P3HT–Fullerene Solar Cells with Side-Chain-Functionalized Poly(thiophene) Additives: A New Paradigm for Polymer Design

(2012) Jose M. Lobez et al.   ACS Nano

Organic Dye Design Tools for Efficient Photocurrent Generation in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Exciton Binding Energy and Electron Acceptors

(2012) Bong-Gi Kim et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Nanostructured, Active Organic-Metal Junctions for Highly Efficient Charge Generation and Extraction in Polymer-Fullerene Solar Cells

(2012) Ajay K. Pandey et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Silk-Based Conformal, Adhesive, Edible Food Sensors

(2012) Hu Tao et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Efficient, Large Area ITO-and-PEDOT-free Organic Solar Cell Sub-modules

(2012) Hui Jin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Transparent, Optical, Pressure-Sensitive Artificial Skin for Large-Area Stretchable Electronics

(2012) Marc Ramuz et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

On the origin of electrical conductivity in the bio-electronic material melanin

(2012) A. Bernardus Mostert et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A 3D star-shaped non-fullerene acceptor for solution-processed organic solar cells with a high open-circuit voltage of 1.18 V

(2012) Yuze Lin et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Molecular engineering of sensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

(2012) Lingamallu Giribabu et al.   CHEMICAL RECORD

Small molecule semiconductors for high-efficiency organic photovoltaics

(2012) Yuze Lin et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Porphyrins in bio-inspired transformations: Light-harvesting to solar cell

(2012) Manas K. Panda et al.   COORDINATION CHEMISTRY REVIEWS

Recent advances in solution-processed interfacial materials for efficient and stable polymer solar cells

(2012) Hin-Lap Yip et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Improving the light-harvesting of amorphous silicon solar cells with photochemical upconversion

(2012) Yuen Yap Cheng et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

Organic field-effect transistors and solar cells using novel high electron-affinity conjugated copolymers based on alkylbenzotriazole and benzothiadiazole

(2012) Michael C. Gwinner et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Charge transfer state in highly efficient polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2012) Claudia Piliego et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Use of colloidal upconversion nanocrystals for energy relay solar cell light harvesting in the near-infrared region

(2012) Chunze Yuan et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Recent development of push–pull conjugated polymers for bulk-heterojunction photovoltaics: rational design and fine tailoring of molecular structures

(2012) Chunhui Duan et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Ultrafine Gold Nanowire Networks as Plasmonic Antennae in Organic Photovoltaics

(2012) Than Z. Oo et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

An Optimal Driving Force for Converting Excitons into Free Carriers in Excitonic Solar Cells

(2012) David C. Coffey et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

The Effect of Solvent Additives on Morphology and Excited-State Dynamics in PCPDTBT:PCBM Photovoltaic Blends

(2012) Fabian Etzold et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Rational Design of High Performance Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells

(2012) Huaxing Zhou et al.   MACROMOLECULES

IMPROVEMENT OF THE RESPONSE TIME FOR ORGANIC PHOTODETECTORS BY USING DISPLACEMENT CURRENT

(2012) BO LI   MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS B

Materials for neural interfaces

(2012) Ravi V. Bellamkonda et al.   MRS BULLETIN

Materials for stretchable electronics

(2012) Sigurd Wagner et al.   MRS BULLETIN

All-solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with high efficiency

(2012) In Chung et al.   NATURE

A flexible and highly sensitive strain-gauge sensor using reversible interlocking of nanofibres

(2012) Changhyun Pang et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Wrinkles and deep folds as photonic structures in photovoltaics

(2012) Jong Bok Kim et al.   Nature Photonics

Towards high-speed imaging of infrared photons with bio-inspired nanoarchitectures

(2012) Andrew D. Pris et al.   Nature Photonics

The renaissance of dye-sensitized solar cells

(2012) Brian E. Hardin et al.   Nature Photonics

Multiscale photosynthetic and biomimetic excitation energy transfer

(2012) A. K. Ringsmuth et al.   Nature Physics

Vacuum-processed polyethylene as a dielectric for low operating voltage organic field effect transistors

(2012) Yasin Kanbur et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Role of semiconductivity and ion transport in the electrical conduction of melanin

(2012) A. B. Mostert et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Physically Transient Form of Silicon Electronics

(2012) S.-W. Hwang et al.   SCIENCE

Infrared light excites cells by changing their electrical capacitance

(2012) Mikhail G. Shapiro et al.   Nature Communications

Pathways to a New Efficiency Regime for Organic Solar Cells

(2012) L. Jan Anton Koster et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Chemical and Engineering Approaches To Enable Organic Field-Effect Transistors for Electronic Skin Applications

(2011) Anatoliy N. Sokolov et al.   ACCOUNTS OF CHEMICAL RESEARCH

Electrically Bistable Properties of Layer-by-Layer Assembled Multilayers Based on Protein Nanoparticles

(2011) Yongmin Ko et al.   ACS Nano

Organic Resistive Memory Devices: Performance Enhancement, Integration, and Advanced Architectures

(2011) Byungjin Cho et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Direct Monolithic Integration of Organic Photovoltaic Circuits on Unmodified Paper

(2011) Miles C. Barr et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Simultaneous Enhancement of Open-Circuit Voltage, Short-Circuit Current Density, and Fill Factor in Polymer Solar Cells

(2011) Zhicai He et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Indigo - A Natural Pigment for High Performance Ambipolar Organic Field Effect Transistors and Circuits

(2011) Mihai Irimia-Vladu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Flexible Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Silk Fibroin as the Gate Dielectric

(2011) Chung-Hwa Wang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Chicken Albumen Dielectrics in Organic Field-Effect Transistors

(2011) Jer-Wei Chang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic Electrochemical Transistors Integrated in Flexible Microfluidic Systems and Used for Label-Free DNA Sensing

(2011) Peng Lin et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

The molecular nature of photovoltage losses in organic solar cells

(2011) Cody W. Schlenker et al.   CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS

Organic photoresponse materials and devices

(2011) Huanli Dong et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Design of New Electron Acceptor Materials for Organic Photovoltaics: Synthesis, Electron Transport, Photophysics, and Photovoltaic Properties of Oligothiophene-Functionalized Naphthalene Diimides

(2011) Eilaf Ahmed et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

DNA-Templated Photonic Arrays and Assemblies: Design Principles and Future Opportunities

(2011) Wu Su et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

Incorporating Multiple Energy Relay Dyes in Liquid Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2011) Jun-Ho Yum et al.   CHEMPHYSCHEM

Organic non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics

(2011) Prashant Sonar et al.   Energy & Environmental Science

High Performance Weak Donor–Acceptor Polymers in Thin Film Transistors: Effect of the Acceptor on Electronic Properties, Ambipolar Conductivity, Mobility, and Thermal Stability

(2011) Jonathan D. Yuen et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Toward Complementary Ionic Circuits: ThenpnIon Bipolar Junction Transistor

(2011) Klas Tybrandt et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Comparing plasmonic and dielectric gratings for absorption enhancement in thin-film organic solar cells

(2011) Khai Q. Le et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Integration of silk protein in organic and light-emitting transistors

(2011) R. Capelli et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b′]dithiophene-based conjugated polymers: band gap and energy level control and their application in polymer solar cells

(2011) Lijun Huo et al.   Polymer Chemistry

Porphyrin-Sensitized Solar Cells with Cobalt (II/III)-Based Redox Electrolyte Exceed 12 Percent Efficiency

(2011) A. Yella et al.   SCIENCE

Epidermal Electronics

(2011) D.-H. Kim et al.   SCIENCE

High mobility, low voltage operating C60 based n-type organic field effect transistors

(2011) G. Schwabegger et al.   SYNTHETIC METALS

Quantum Coherence in Photosynthetic Light Harvesting

(2011) Akihito Ishizaki et al.   Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics

A hybrid bioorganic interface for neuronal photoactivation

(2011) Diego Ghezzi et al.   Nature Communications

A polysaccharide bioprotonic field-effect transistor

(2011) Chao Zhong et al.   Nature Communications

Halogenated Boron Subphthalocyanines as Light Harvesting Electron Acceptors in Organic Photovoltaics

(2011) Paul Sullivan et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Printed Paper Photovoltaic Cells

(2011) Arved Hübler et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

Triplet–triplet annihilation based upconversion: from triplet sensitizers and triplet acceptors to upconversion quantum yields

(2011) Jianzhang Zhao et al.   RSC Advances

Ambipolar organic field effect transistors and inverters with the natural material Tyrian Purple

(2011) Eric Daniel Głowacki et al.   AIP Advances

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

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

Electrowetting on Paper for Electronic Paper Display

(2010) Duk Young Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Biocompatible and Biodegradable Materials for Organic Field-Effect Transistors

(2010) Mihai Irimia-Vladu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Morphology of All-Solution-Processed “Bilayer” Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Kwan H. Lee et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Bionanoelectronics

(2010) Aleksandr Noy   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Improved Film Morphology Reduces Charge Carrier Recombination into the Triplet Excited State in a Small Bandgap Polymer-Fullerene Photovoltaic Cell

(2010) Daniele Di Nuzzo et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

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

Water-Based Electrolytes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2010) ChunHung Law et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

A Low-Bandgap Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Benzothiadiazole-Based Copolymer for High-Mobility Ambipolar Organic Thin-Film Transistors

(2010) Prashant Sonar et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Near-Infrared Sunlight Harvesting in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Via the Insertion of an Upconverter-TiO2 Nanocomposite Layer

(2010) Guo-Bin Shan et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ionic/Electronic Hybrid Materials Integrated in a Synaptic Transistor with Signal Processing and Learning Functions

(2010) Qianxi Lai et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic bioelectronics in nanomedicine

(2010) Karl Svennersten et al.   BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-GENERAL SUBJECTS

Molecular and Cellular Approaches for Diversifying and Extending Optogenetics

(2010) Viviana Gradinaru et al.   CELL

Charge Photogeneration in Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Tracey M. Clarke et al.   CHEMICAL REVIEWS

Small-Molecule, Nonfullerene Acceptors for Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Organic Photovoltaics†

(2010) John E. Anthony   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Electronic Energy Transfer and Quantum-Coherence in π-Conjugated Polymers†

(2010) Inchan Hwang et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Interface investigation and engineering – achieving high performance polymer photovoltaic devices

(2010) Li-Min Chen et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Exotic materials for bio-organic electronics

(2010) Mihai Irimia-Vladu et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Singlet Annihilation in Films of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene): Estimates for Singlet Diffusion Lengths and the Correlation between Singlet Annihilation Rates and Spectral Relaxation

(2010) Steffan Cook et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

Plasmon-Enhanced Charge Carrier Generation in Organic Photovoltaic Films Using Silver Nanoprisms

(2010) Abhishek P. Kulkarni et al.   NANO LETTERS

Coherently wired light-harvesting in photosynthetic marine algae at ambient temperature

(2010) Elisabetta Collini et al.   NATURE

Highly sensitive flexible pressure sensors with microstructured rubber dielectric layers

(2010) Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Observation of long-range exciton diffusion in highly ordered organic semiconductors

(2010) H. Najafov et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Dissolvable films of silk fibroin for ultrathin conformal bio-integrated electronics

(2010) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Nanostructured materials for photon detection

(2010) Gerasimos Konstantatos et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Environmentally sustainable organic field effect transistors

(2010) Mihai Irimia-Vladu et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Tailoring side chains of low band gap polymers for high efficiency polymer solar cells

(2010) Weiwei Li et al.   POLYMER

Development of Semiconducting Polymers for Solar Energy Harvesting

(2010) Yongye Liang et al.   Polymer Reviews

Ion bipolar junction transistors

(2010) K. Tybrandt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-lived quantum coherence in photosynthetic complexes at physiological temperature

(2010) G. Panitchayangkoon et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Polymer–fullerene bulk heterojunction solar cells

(2010) Carsten Deibel et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Synthesis of a perylene bisimide with acetonaphthopyrazine dicarbonitrile terminal moieties for photovoltaic applications

(2010) John A. Mikroyannidis et al.   SYNTHETIC METALS

pH regulation and beyond: unanticipated functions for the voltage-gated proton channel, HVCN1

(2010) Melania Capasso et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

A Small Molecule Non-fullerene Electron Acceptor for Organic Solar Cells

(2010) Paul E. Schwenn et al.   Advanced Energy Materials

The Energy of Charge-Transfer States in Electron Donor-Acceptor Blends: Insight into the Energy Losses in Organic Solar Cells

(2009) Dirk Veldman et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Estimating the Maximum Attainable Efficiency in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2009) Henry J. Snaith   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Influence of Device Geometry on Sensor Characteristics of Planar Organic Electrochemical Transistors

(2009) Fabio Cicoira et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Ultrathin Silicon Circuits With Strain-Isolation Layers and Mesh Layouts for High-Performance Electronics on Fabric, Vinyl, Leather, and Paper

(2009) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic Thin-Film Transistors Fabricated on Resorbable Biomaterial Substrates

(2009) Christopher J. Bettinger et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Panchromatic Response in Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Containing Phosphorescent Energy Relay Dyes

(2009) Jun-Ho Yum et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Ionic Circuits Based on Polyelectrolyte Diodes on a Microchip

(2009) Ji-Hyung Han et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Strain and Hückel Aromaticity: Driving Forces for a Promising New Generation of Electron Acceptors in Organic Electronics

(2009) F. G. Brunetti et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Metal-Free Organic Dyes for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: From Structure: Property Relationships to Design Rules

(2009) Amaresh Mishra et al.   ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Silicon electronics on silk as a path to bioresorbable, implantable devices

(2009) Dae-Hyeong Kim et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Highly efficient energy excitation transfer in light-harvesting complexes: The fundamental role of noise-assisted transport

(2009) F. Caruso et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Photosynthetic Reaction Center Mimicry: Low Reorganization Energy Driven Charge Stabilization in Self-Assembled Cofacial Zinc Phthalocyanine Dimer−Fullerene Conjugate

(2009) Francis D’Souza et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Thin, lightweight, foldable thermochromic displays on paper

(2009) Adam C. Siegel et al.   LAB ON A CHIP

Gaseous Adsorption in Melanins: Hydrophilic Biomacromolecules with High Electrical Conductivities

(2009) A. Bernardus Mostert et al.   LANGMUIR

Increased light harvesting in dye-sensitized solar cells with energy relay dyes

(2009) Brian E. Hardin et al.   Nature Photonics

Selective floating gate non-volatile paper memory transistor

(2009) Rodrigo Martins et al.   Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters

Bioelectronic silicon nanowire devices using functional membrane proteins

(2009) N. Misra et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Coherent Intrachain Energy Migration in a Conjugated Polymer at Room Temperature

(2009) E. Collini et al.   SCIENCE

High-Detectivity Polymer Photodetectors with Spectral Response from 300 nm to 1450 nm

(2009) X. Gong et al.   SCIENCE

Exploiting Ionic Coupling in Electronic Devices: Electrolyte-Gated Organic Field-Effect Transistors

(2008) Matthew J. Panzer et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Exciton Diffusion Measurements in Poly(3-hexylthiophene)

(2008) Paul E. Shaw et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Photosynthetic energy conversion: natural and artificial

(2008) James Barber   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Novel Zinc Porphyrin Sensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: Synthesis and Spectral, Electrochemical, and Photovoltaic Properties

(2008) Cheng-Wei Lee et al.   CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL

On the mechanism of charge transport in pentacene

(2008) H. A. v. Laarhoven et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Solution processable bulk-heterojunction solar cells using a small molecule acceptor

(2008) Zi En Ooi et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Compositional and Electric Field Dependence of the Dissociation of Charge Transfer Excitons in Alternating Polyfluorene Copolymer/Fullerene Blends

(2008) Dirk Veldman et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

Enhance the Optical Absorptivity of Nanocrystalline TiO2Film with High Molar Extinction Coefficient Ruthenium Sensitizers for High Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

(2008) Feifei Gao et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The missing memristor found

(2008) Dmitri B. Strukov et al.   NATURE

Direct transfer patterning on three dimensionally deformed surfaces at micrometer resolutions and its application to hemispherical focal plane detector arrays

(2008) Xin Xu et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS

Electrical Resistance of Long Conjugated Molecular Wires

(2008) S. Ho Choi et al.   SCIENCE