Mechanical properties and peculiarities of molecular crystals

WM Awad, DW Davies, D Kitagawa… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In the last century, molecular crystals functioned predominantly as a means for determining
the molecular structures via X-ray diffraction, albeit as the century came to a close the …

Polymorphism as an emerging design strategy for high performance organic electronics

H Chung, Y Diao - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic electronics is a promising field spanning a wide range of applications, with
unrivaled advantages in low production cost, versatility in material synthesis, and …

Flow-enhanced solution printing of all-polymer solar cells

Y Diao, Y Zhou, T Kurosawa, L Shaw, C Wang… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Morphology control of solution coated solar cell materials presents a key challenge limiting
their device performance and commercial viability. Here we present a new concept for …

Tuning conformation, assembly, and charge transport properties of conjugated polymers by printing flow

KS Park, JJ Kwok, R Dilmurat, G Qu, P Kafle, X Luo… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
Intrachain charge transport is unique to conjugated polymers distinct from inorganic and
small molecular semiconductors and is key to achieving high-performance organic …

Understanding polymorphism in organic semiconductor thin films through nanoconfinement

Y Diao, KM Lenn, WY Lee… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Understanding crystal polymorphism is a long-standing challenge relevant to many fields,
such as pharmaceuticals, organic semiconductors, pigments, food, and explosives …

Role of polymorphism and thin-film morphology in organic semiconductors processed by solution shearing

S Riera-Galindo, A Tamayo, M Mas-Torrent - ACS omega, 2018 - ACS Publications
Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are promising materials for cost-effective production of
electronic devices because they can be processed from solution employing high-throughput …

Raman spectroscopy as an advanced structural nanoprobe for conjugated molecular semiconductors

S Wood, JR Hollis, JS Kim - Journal of Physics D: Applied …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Raman spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful and important characterisation tool for
probing molecular semiconducting materials. The useful optoelectronic properties of these …

Flow-directed crystallization for printed electronics

G Qu, JJ Kwok, Y Diao - Accounts of chemical research, 2016 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The solution printability of organic semiconductors (OSCs) represents a distinct
advantage for materials processing, enabling low-cost, high-throughput, and energy-efficient …

Multiscale assembly of solution-processed organic electronics: the critical roles of confinement, fluid flow, and interfaces

BB Patel, Y Diao - Nanotechnology, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Organic semiconducting small molecules and polymers provide a rich phase space for
investigating the fundamentals of molecular and hierarchical assembly. Stemming from …

Relating the Physical Structure and Optoelectronic Function of Crystalline TIPS‐Pentacene

S Sharifzadeh, CY Wong, H Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Theory and experiment are combined to investigate the nature of low‐energy excitons within
ordered domains of 6, 13‐bis (triisopropylsilylethynyl)‐pentacene (TIPS‐PEN) …