Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Dongming Cheng, Ke Li, Hongying Zang, Jiajia Chen
Summary: This review provides an overview of the development of polyoxometalates (POMs) as solid-state electrolytes, including their structural and functional relationship, as well as their applications in energy devices.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Optics
Peng You, Guanqi Tang, Jiupeng Cao, Dong Shen, Tsz-Wai Ng, Zafer Hawash, Naixiang Wang, Chun-Ki Liu, Wei Lu, Qidong Tai, Yabing Qi, Chun-Sing Lee, Feng Yan
Summary: A unique approach of modifying the edges of perovskite grain boundaries with high-mobility 2D materials can significantly enhance the performance of PSCs by conducting holes from the grain boundaries to the hole transport layers, forming hole channels in the devices. This cost-effective strategy presents a synergistic effect between the 2D flakes and perovskite grain boundaries for improving the photovoltaic performance of PSCs.
LIGHT-SCIENCE & APPLICATIONS
(2021)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Yanxun Li, Kai-Kai Liu, Francis R. Lin, Alex K. -Y. Jen
Summary: Organic solar cells (OSCs) show great promise as a photovoltaic technology, but their operational stability remains a major challenge. This article summarizes strategies to improve the stability of OSCs, including material design, device processing, and encapsulation techniques, and discusses future prospects for their development.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Xiyue Yuan, Yunli Zhao, Dongsheng Xie, Langheng Pan, Xinyuan Liu, Chunhui Duan, Fei Huang, Yong Cao
Summary: A new promising electron donor polythiophene has been developed for organic solar cells, which shows improved performance due to cyano-group substitutions and varied fluorination degrees. The incorporation of cyano-group provides deep-lying energy levels, and fluorination leads to enhanced interchain interaction and improved crystallinity, resulting in a record efficiency of 17.2% in the new polythiophene-based solar cells.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jianxiao Wang, Chenyu Han, Fuzhen Bi, Da Huang, Yuanwei Wu, Yonghai Li, Shuguang Wen, Liangliang Han, Chunming Yang, Xichang Bao, Junhao Chu
Summary: Research on two different polymer donors as the third component to regulate the morphology and molecular accumulation of the active layer has improved the performance of organic solar cells. Enhancing intermolecular overlapping and packing in the active layer has great potential in improving the photovoltaic performance and stability of OSCs.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Review
Energy & Fuels
Silki Sardana, Anjli Gupta, Kuldeep Singh, A. S. Maan, Anil Ohlan
Summary: Conducting polymer hydrogels (CPHs) have gained significant interest in supercapacitors due to their unique features, such as large pseudocapacitance, interconnected 3D porous nanostructure, excellent conductivity, and high flexibility. The hierarchical 3D porous structure enables fast electron transfer and ion diffusion, leading to improved electrical and electrochemical properties of supercapacitors.
JOURNAL OF ENERGY STORAGE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Ambrose Ashwin Melvin, Bhavana Gupta, Kostiantyn Tieriekhov, Wojciech Nogala, Patrick Garrigue, Stephane Reculusa, Alexander Kuhn
Summary: An actuator controlled by light and electric field in a synergistic manner was reported, allowing for better control and a wider range of potential applications, especially in soft robotics. The actuator demonstrated reversible actuation in an aqueous solution through electrochemical reactions, leading to controlled motion based on logic gate operations. Such synergistic switching enables the development of original actuation schemes for complex mechanical tasks triggered by multiple stimuli.
ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Polymer Science
Mohamed M. H. Desoky, Matteo Bonomo, Nadia Barbero, Guido Viscardi, Claudia Barolo, Pierluigi Quagliotto
Summary: Perovskite solar cells have achieved impressive efficiency in a short period, but long-term stability remains a challenge due to doping of the Hole Transporting Material. Research focuses on stable dopant-free HTMs, which show promising efficiency and stability without the need for additional dopants. These polymers have attractive properties such as filming ability, tunability in molecular weight, and high hole mobility, making them a significant innovation in the field.
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Xin Chen, Chengcheng Zhao, Kai Yang, Shiyi Sun, Jinxin Bi, Ningrui Zhu, Qiong Cai, Jianan Wang, Wei Yan
Summary: Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have received increasing interest due to their high theoretical energy density, low cost, and environmental friendliness. Conducting polymers (CPs) show great potential in Li-S batteries as they can facilitate electron transfer, buffer volumetric changes, and adsorb polysulfides (LiPSs) when doped with heteroatoms. This review introduces various CPs and their application potential, summarizes the research progress in different components of Li-S batteries, and comprehensively discusses the application perspective of CPs in Li-S batteries.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Jiupeng Cao, Peng You, Guanqi Tang, Feng Yan
Summary: As one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic technologies, the use of 2D materials in organic-inorganic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has shown significant improvement in device performance. This review summarizes the recent progress in the application of 2D materials as electrodes, charge transport layers, and additives in PSCs. The effects of various 2D materials on charge transport characteristics, crystallization dynamics, and long-term stability of PSCs are discussed, and future challenges and prospects are addressed.
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING R-REPORTS
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Tuan Van Nguyen, Quyet Van Le, Shengjie Peng, Zhengfei Dai, Sang Hyun Ahn, Soo Young Kim
Summary: Electrochromism is the ability of a material to change its optical properties or color when an external potential is applied. Conventional electrochromic materials based on inorganic materials have drawbacks including single color change, expensive materials, and slow switching speed. To overcome these challenges, conducting polymers (CPs) have emerged as a promising alternative with advantages of multicolor, fast response, low cost, easy processing, and environmental friendliness. This review introduces the current state-of-the-art development of ECDs based on three popular CPs, namely, polyaniline, polypyrrole, and poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate, with emphasis on their synthetic approaches and electrochromic performance.
ADVANCED MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES
(2023)
Article
Energy & Fuels
Wei Gao, Francis R. Lin, Alex K-Y Jen
Summary: This article focuses on the development of near-infrared nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) in organic solar cells (OSCs), discussing their molecular design strategies, structure-property-performance relationships, and the potential in fabricating ternary and tandem OSCs. Outlooks for future design of NIR NFAs are also provided, considering material stability and production cost based on current knowledge, in hope of aiding the further development of the field.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Xiaoqing Jiang, Jiafeng Zhang, Yang Liu, Ziyuan Wang, Xuan Liu, Xin Guo, Can Li
Summary: Introducing a 2D perovskite layer at the interface of 3D perovskite and a dopant-free polymeric HTM can significantly enhance the efficiency and stability of PSCs, offering a promising solution to the stability issue faced by traditional PSCs.
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Emilie Dauzon, Xavier Sallenave, Cedric Plesse, Fabrice Goubard, Aram Amassian, Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Summary: Emerging forms of soft, flexible, and stretchable electronics have the potential to revolutionize the future electronics industry, with stretchable photovoltaics as self-powering systems showing great promise for various applications. Current research is focused on achieving wearability and stretchability in electronic systems, utilizing both extrinsic and intrinsic approaches for inducing stretchability.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Nong Hoang, Vasileios C. Nikolis, Lukasz Baisinger, Koen Vandewal, Maxim S. Pshenichnikov
Summary: Single-material organic solar cells are attracting research attention for their simplicity, morphological robustness, and high yield of exciton dissociation. Using alpha-sexithiophene as a model system, researchers have shown that while the single-event probability of exciton dissociation at the boundaries of polycrystalline domains with different molecular orientation is extremely low, a high efficiency of charge generation is achieved through multiple crossings of the domain boundaries.
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jian Sun, N. V. S. N. Murthy Konda, Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta, Feng Xu, Corinne D. Scown, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
(2016)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jian Sun, N. V. S. N. Murthy Konda, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Tanmoy Dutta, Marat Valiev, Feng Xu, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
Review
Chemistry, Physical
Xiaodong Yan, Yong Li, Ting Xia
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHOTOENERGY
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Aymerick Eudes, Tanmoy Dutta, Kai Deng, Nicolas Jacquet, Anagh Sinha, Veronica T. Benites, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Aurore Richel, Scott E. Sattler, Trent R. Northen, Seema Singh, Blake A. Simmons, Dominique Loque
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kwang Ho Kim, Tanmoy Dutta, Eric D. Walter, Nancy G. Isern, John R. Cort, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
(2017)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Tanmoy Dutta, Nancy G. Isern, Jian Sun, Eileen Wang, Sarah Hull, John R. Cort, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
(2017)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kwang Ho Kim, Tanmoy Dutta, Jian Sun, Blake Simmons, Seema Singh
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Florent P. Bouxin, Henri Strub, Tanmoy Dutta, Julie Aguilhon, Trevor J. Morgan, Florence Mingardon, Murthy Konda, Seema Singh, Blake Simmons, Anthe George
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Yong Li, Kyle R. Scheel, Robert G. Clevenger, Wan Shou, Heng Pan, Kathleen V. Kilway, Zhonghua Peng
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2018)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Tanmoy Dutta, Gabriella Papa, Eileen Wang, Jian Sun, Nancy G. Isern, John R. Cort, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
ACS SUSTAINABLE CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING
(2018)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Xiaodong Yan, Yuan Liu, Kyle R. Scheel, Yong Li, Yunhua Yu, Xiaoping Yang, Zhonghua Peng
FRONTIERS OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
(2018)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Weihua Wu, Tanmoy Dutta, Arul M. Varman, Aymerick Eudes, Bianca Manalansan, Dominique Loque, Seema Singh
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2017)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Aihua Zhang, Shaohua Li, Lynne Apone, Xiaoli Sun, Lixin Chen, Laurence M. Ettwiller, Bradley W. Langhorst, Christopher J. Noren, Ming-Qun Xu
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2018)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Jian Sun, Jian Shi, N. V. S. N. Murthy Konda, Dan Campos, Dajiang Liu, Stuart Nemser, Julia Shamshina, Tanmoy Dutta, Paula Berton, Gabriela Gurau, Robin D. Rogers, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS
(2017)
Article
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Kwang Ho Kim, Tanmoy Dutta, John Ralph, Shawn D. Mansfield, Blake A. Simmons, Seema Singh
BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS
(2017)
