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High‐Efficiency Organic Photovoltaics using Eutectic Acceptor Fibrils to Achieve Current Amplification

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Multi‐Selenophene‐Containing Narrow Bandgap Polymer Acceptors for All‐Polymer Solar Cells with over 15% Efficiency and High Reproducibility

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(2021) Chao Li et al.   Nature Energy

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Sub-picosecond charge-transfer at near-zero driving force in polymer:non-fullerene acceptor blends and bilayers

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Over 15% Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by Conformation Tuning of Newly Designed Asymmetric Small‐Molecule Acceptors

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Efficient Organic Solar Cell with 16.88% Efficiency Enabled by Refined Acceptor Crystallization and Morphology with Improved Charge Transfer and Transport Properties

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Nanoscale Domain Imaging of All-Polymer Organic Solar Cells by Photo-Induced Force Microscopy

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Resonant Soft X-Ray Scattering Provides Protein Structure with Chemical Specificity

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Resonant soft X-ray scattering reveals cellulose microfibril spacing in plant primary cell walls

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Aluminum oxide free-standing thin films to enable nitrogen edge soft x-ray scattering

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Fine-tuning of the chemical structure of photoactive materials for highly efficient organic photovoltaics

(2018) Baobing Fan et al.   Nature Energy

Optimisation of processing solvent and molecular weight for the production of green-solvent-processed all-polymer solar cells with a power conversion efficiency over 9%

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High-Efficiency Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells with Medium Bandgap Polymer Donor and Narrow Bandgap Organic Semiconductor Acceptor

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A Novel Naphtho[1,2-c:5,6-c′]Bis([1,2,5]Thiadiazole)-Based Narrow-Bandgap π-Conjugated Polymer with Power Conversion Efficiency Over 10%

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Fullerene-Free Polymer Solar Cells with over 11% Efficiency and Excellent Thermal Stability

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A Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Non-fullerene Electron Acceptor for High-Performance Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells

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Side-Chain Isomerization on an n-type Organic Semiconductor ITIC Acceptor Makes 11.77% High Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells

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Combining theory and experiment for X-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant X-ray scattering characterization of polymers

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High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

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All-Polymer Solar Cells Based on Absorption-Complementary Polymer Donor and Acceptor with High Power Conversion Efficiency of 8.27%

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A Series of Simple Oligomer-like Small Molecules Based on Oligothiophenes for Solution-Processed Solar Cells with High Efficiency

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Probing and Controlling Liquid Crystal Helical Nanofilaments

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Calculation of the Kramers-Kronig transform of X-ray spectra by a piecewise Laurent polynomial method

(2014) Benjamin Watts   OPTICS EXPRESS

Relating Chemical Structure to Device Performance via Morphology Control in Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Low Band Gap Polymers

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Characterization of the morphology of solution-processed bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaics

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Quantitative Determination of Organic Semiconductor Microstructure from the Molecular to Device Scale

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Polarized X-ray scattering reveals non-crystalline orientational ordering in organic films

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Soft x-ray scattering facility at the Advanced Light Source with real-time data processing and analysis

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Absolute Measurement of Domain Composition and Nanoscale Size Distribution Explains Performance in PTB7:PC71BM Solar Cells

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Fluorine Substituted Conjugated Polymer of Medium Band Gap Yields 7% Efficiency in Polymer−Fullerene Solar Cells

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Defining the Nanostructured Morphology of Triblock Copolymers Using Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering

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Enhanced Photovoltaic Performance of Low-Bandgap Polymers with Deep LUMO Levels

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Toward a Rational Design of Poly(2,7-Carbazole) Derivatives for Solar Cells

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