Design strategies for enhanced conductivity in metal–organic frameworks

EM Johnson, S Ilic, AJ Morris - ACS Central Science, 2021 - ACS Publications
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are a class of materials which exhibit permanent porosity,
high surface area, and crystallinity. As a highly tunable middle ground between …

Read between the molecules: computational insights into organic semiconductors

G Gryn'ova, KH Lin, C Corminboeuf - Journal of the American …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The performance and key electronic properties of molecular organic semiconductors are
dictated by the interplay between the chemistry of the molecular core and the intermolecular …

Energy barriers at grain boundaries dominate charge carrier transport in an electron-conductive organic semiconductor

I Vladimirov, M Kühn, T Geßner, F May, RT Weitz - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Semiconducting organic films that are at the heart of light-emitting diodes, solar cells and
transistors frequently contain a large number of morphological defects, most prominently at …

Hall effect in polycrystalline organic semiconductors: The effect of grain boundaries

HH Choi, AF Paterson, MA Fusella… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Highly crystalline thin films in organic semiconductors are important for applications in high‐
performance organic optoelectronics. Here, the effect of grain boundaries on the Hall effect …

Generic model for lamellar self-assembly in conjugated polymers: linking mesoscopic morphology and charge transport in P3HT

C Greco, A Melnyk, K Kremer, D Andrienko… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We develop a generic coarse-grained model of soluble conjugated polymers, capable of
describing their self-assembly into a lamellar mesophase. Polymer chains are described by …

The Impact of Grain Boundaries on Charge Transport in Polycrystalline Organic Field‐Effect Transistors

T Meier, H Bässler, A Köhler - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The active element of an organic field effect transistor (OFET) is a polycrystalline transport
layer. The crystallites are interrupted by grain boundaries (GB) that can act as traps or …

Processable high electron mobility π‐copolymers via mesoscale backbone conformational ordering

BJ Eckstein, FS Melkonyan, G Wang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The synthesis and experimental/theoretical characterization of a new series of electron‐
transporting copolymers based on the naphthalene bis (4, 8‐diamino‐1, 5‐dicarboxyl) …

Tuning near-infrared absorbing donor materials: a study of electronic, optical, and charge-transport properties of aza-BODIPYs

KS Schellhammer, TY Li, O Zeika, C Körner… - Chemistry of …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The class of 4, 4′-difluoro-4-bora-3a, 4a, 8-triaza-s-indacenes (aza-BODIPYs) are
promising near-infrared absorber materials which are successfully used in organic solar …

Impact of nanoscale morphology on charge carrier delocalization and mobility in an organic semiconductor

M Ellis, H Yang, S Giannini, OG Ziogos… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
A central challenge of organic semiconductor research is to make cheap, disordered
materials that exhibit high electrical conductivity. Unfortunately, this endeavor is hampered …

Modeling of charge transport in polymers with embedded crystallites

YV Burdakov, AY Saunina, H Bässler, A Köhler… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Modern organic semiconductors frequently adopt a semicrystalline morphology which
makes the analysis of charge transport challenging. In this paper, we employ Monte Carlo …