Molecular Orientation of Conjugated Polymer Chains in Nanostructures and Thin Films: Review of Processes and Application to Optoelectronics

Direct Uniaxial Alignment of a Donor–Acceptor Semiconducting Polymer Using Single-Step Solution Shearing

(2016) Leo Shaw et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Achieving Above 60% External Quantum Efficiency in Organic Light-Emitting Devices Using ITO-Free Low-Index Transparent Electrode and Emitters with Preferential Horizontal Emitting Dipoles

(2016) Chun-Yang Lu et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Ultrahigh Mobility in an Organic Semiconductor by Vertical Chain Alignment

(2016) Vasyl Skrypnychuk et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Exploring the origin of high optical absorption in conjugated polymers

(2016) Michelle S. Vezie et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Crystallization of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Nanofiber in a Narrow Groove

(2016) Satoshi Kushi et al.   Polymers

Tailorable perylene-loaded fluorescent nanostructures: a multifaceted approach enabling their application in white hybrid LEDs

(2016) Francesco Galeotti et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Competition between deformability and charge transport in semiconducting polymers for flexible and stretchable electronics

(2016) Adam D. Printz et al.   Applied Physics Reviews

Realizing the full potential of conjugated polymers: innovation in polymer synthesis

(2016) Pierre-Olivier Morin et al.   Materials Horizons

Solution-Processed Donor-Acceptor Polymer Nanowire Network Semiconductors For High-Performance Field-Effect Transistors

(2016) Yanlian Lei et al.   Scientific Reports

High-Performing Thin-Film Transistors in Large Spherulites of Conjugated Polymer Formed by Epitaxial Growth on Removable Organic Crystalline Templates

(2015) Jae Yoon Kim et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Precise Control of Lamellar Thickness in Highly Oriented Regioregular Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) Thin Films Prepared by High-Temperature Rubbing: Correlations with Optical Properties and Charge Transport

(2015) Amer Hamidi-Sakr et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells with Improved Vertical Donor-Acceptor Compositional Gradient Via an Inverted Off-Center Spinning Method

(2015) Jiang Huang et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Investigating the effect of solvent boiling temperature on the active layer morphology of diffusive bilayer solar cells

(2015) Varun Vohra et al.   Applied Physics Express

High-Performance Organic Field-Effect Transistors with Directionally Aligned Conjugated Polymer Film Deposited from Pre-Aggregated Solution

(2015) Nam-Koo Kim et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Enhancement of Out-of-plane Mobility in P3HT Film by Rubbing: Aggregation and Planarity Enhanced with Low Regioregularity

(2015) Daisuke Kajiya et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry C

NEXAFS Spectroscopy Reveals the Molecular Orientation in Blade-Coated Pyridal[2,1,3]thiadiazole-Containing Conjugated Polymer Thin Films

(2015) Shrayesh N. Patel et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orientation

(2015) Varun Vohra et al.   Nature Photonics

Morphological and charge transport properties of amorphous and crystalline P3HT and PBTTT: insights from theory

(2015) Domenico Alberga et al.   PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS

Altering the emission properties of conjugated polymers

(2015) Ioan Botiz et al.   POLYMER INTERNATIONAL

Percolation, Tie-Molecules, and the Microstructural Determinants of Charge Transport in Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymers

(2015) Sonya A. Mollinger et al.   ACS Macro Letters

Intrinsic Polarization and Tunable Color of Electroluminescence from Organic Single Crystal-based Light-Emitting Devices

(2015) Ran Ding et al.   Scientific Reports

Fabrication and Characterization of Organic Single Crystal-Based Light-Emitting Devices with Improved Contact Between the Metallic Electrodes and Crystal

(2014) Ran Ding et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Molecular Orientation and Performance of Nanoimprinted Polymer-Based Blend Thin Film Solar Cells

(2014) Xinhui Lu et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Highly polarized emission of the liquid crystalline conjugated polymer by controlling the surface anchoring energy

(2014) Soo In Jo et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

High-Temperature Rubbing: A Versatile Method to Align π-Conjugated Polymers without Alignment Substrate

(2014) Laure Biniek et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Conformational Evolution of Elongated Polymer Solutions Tailors the Polarization of Light-Emission from Organic Nanofibers

(2014) Andrea Camposeo et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Ultra-high mobility transparent organic thin film transistors grown by an off-centre spin-coating method

(2014) Yongbo Yuan et al.   Nature Communications

Influence of Molecular Conformations and Microstructure on the Optoelectronic Properties of Conjugated Polymers

(2014) Ioan Botiz et al.   Materials

One-Step Macroscopic Alignment of Conjugated Polymer Systems by Epitaxial Crystallization during Spin-Coating

(2013) Christian Müller et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Biomimetic photonic materials with tunable structural colors

(2013) Jun Xu et al.   JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE

Orienting Semi-Conducting π-Conjugated Polymers

(2013) Martin Brinkmann et al.   MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

A general relationship between disorder, aggregation and charge transport in conjugated polymers

(2013) Rodrigo Noriega et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Uniaxial macroscopic alignment of conjugated polymer systems by directional crystallization during blade coating

(2013) Bernhard Dörling et al.   Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Addition of regiorandom poly(3-hexylthiophene) to solution processed poly(3-hexylthiophene):[6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester graded bilayers to tune the vertical concentration gradient

(2012) Varun Vohra et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Enhancement of hole injection and electroluminescence characteristics by a rubbing-induced lying orientation of alpha-sexithiophene

(2012) Toshinori Matsushima et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Organic solar cells based on nanoporous P3HT obtained from self-assembled P3HT:PS templates

(2012) Varun Vohra et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Enhanced Vertical Concentration Gradient in Rubbed P3HT:PCBM Graded Bilayer Solar Cells

(2012) Varun Vohra et al.   Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Roll-to-Roll fabrication of large area functional organic materials

(2012) Roar R. Søndergaard et al.   JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE PART B-POLYMER PHYSICS

Synthesis, Characterization, and Transistor and Solar Cell Applications of a Naphthobisthiadiazole-Based Semiconducting Polymer

(2012) Itaru Osaka et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

High-brightness polarized light-emitting diodes

(2012) Elison Matioli et al.   Light-Science & Applications

Nanoimprint-Induced Molecular Orientation in Semiconducting Polymer Nanostructures

(2011) Htay Hlaing et al.   ACS Nano

Electroluminescence from Conjugated Polymer Electrospun Nanofibers in Solution Processable Organic Light-Emitting Diodes

(2011) Varun Vohra et al.   ACS Nano

2D Versus 3D Crystalline Order in Thin Films of Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Oriented by Mechanical Rubbing and Epitaxy

(2011) Lucia Hartmann et al.   ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

Polarizing Organic Photovoltaics

(2011) Rui Zhu et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Molecular orientation in small-molecule organic light-emitting diodes

(2011) Daisuke Yokoyama   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Manipulation on the Morphology and Electrical Properties of Aligned Electrospun Nanofibers of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) for Field-Effect Transistor Applications

(2011) Jung-Yao Chen et al.   MACROMOLECULES

Toward White Light Emission through Efficient Two-Step Energy Transfer in Hybrid Nanofibers

(2010) Varun Vohra et al.   ACS Nano

π-Conjugated Polymers for Organic Electronics and Photovoltaic Cell Applications†

(2010) Antonio Facchetti   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Photoluminescence anisotropy of uni-axially aligned electrospun conjugated polymer nanofibers of MEH-PPV and P3HT

(2010) Kezhen Yin et al.   JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY

Enhancement of light polarization from electrospun polymer fibers by room temperature nanoimprint lithography

(2010) Stefano Pagliara et al.   NANOTECHNOLOGY

Polarized electroluminescence from organic light-emitting devices using photon recycling

(2010) Byoungchoo Park et al.   OPTICS EXPRESS

Nano-Confinement Induced Chain Alignment in Ordered P3HT Nanostructures Defined by Nanoimprint Lithography

(2009) Mukti Aryal et al.   ACS Nano

Energy Transfer in Fluorescent Nanofibers Embedding Dye-Loaded Zeolite L Crystals

(2009) Varun Vohra et al.   ADVANCED MATERIALS

Organic Thin-Film Transistors Based on Blends of Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and Polystyrene with a Solubility-Induced Low Percolation Threshold

(2009) Longzhen Qiu et al.   CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS

Control of crystal orientation in soft nanostructures by nanoimprint lithography

(2009) Zhijun Hu et al.   Soft Matter

Highly polarized luminescence from aligned conjugated polymer electrospun nanofibers

(2008) Mariano Campoy-Quiles et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

A new electrospinning method to control the number and a diameter of uniaxially aligned polymer fibers

(2008) Yuya Ishii et al.   MATERIALS LETTERS

Oriented growth of rubrene thin films on aligned pentacene buffer layer and its anisotropic thin-film transistor characteristics

(2008) Wei-Shan Hu et al.   ORGANIC ELECTRONICS