Semiconducting polymers based on isoindigo and its derivatives: synthetic tactics, structural modifications, and applications

X Wei, W Zhang, G Yu - Advanced Functional Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The past few decades have witnessed the tremendous development of semiconducting
polymers in electronic applications, which is inextricably related to the diversity of polymer …

Lead-free hybrid perovskite photocatalysts: surface engineering, charge-carrier behaviors, and solar-driven applications

Y Tang, CH Mak, G Jia, KC Cheng, JJ Kai… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Lead-based hybrid perovskites have sparked substantial research interest due to the
immense progress in the fields of optoelectronics and photocatalysis. However, owing to the …

In situ formation of bismuth‐based perovskite heterostructures for high‐performance cocatalyst‐free photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Y Tang, CH Mak, R Liu, Z Wang, L Ji… - Advanced Functional …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐to‐fuel conversion with organic–inorganic hybrid halide perovskites has attracted
growing attention as a result of their excellent optoelectronic properties as well as the low …

Unravelling the Interfacial Dynamics of Bandgap Funneling in Bismuth‐Based Halide Perovskites

Y Tang, CH Mak, J Zhang, G Jia, KC Cheng… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
An environmentally friendly mixed‐halide perovskite MA3Bi2Cl9− xIx with a bandgap funnel
structure has been developed. However, the dynamic interfacial interactions of bandgap …

Heterogenization of homogeneous photocatalysts utilizing synthetic and natural support materials

CH Mak, X Han, M Du, JJ Kai, KF Tsang… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Homogeneous photocatalysis has considerably contributed to green applications such as
energy production and environmental decontamination. Currently, researchers mainly focus …

Enhancing indacenodithiophene acceptor crystallinity via substituent manipulation increases organic solar cell efficiency

TJ Aldrich, SM Swick, FS Melkonyan, TJ Marks - Chemistry of Materials, 2017 - osti.gov
The post-fullerene indacenodithiophene acceptor ITIC is a highly effective n-type component
of high-performance bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) polymer solar cells (PSCs) for reasons that …

Recent progress in surface modification and interfacial engineering for high-performance perovskite light-emitting diodes

CH Mak, X Huang, R Liu, Y Tang, X Han, L Ji, X Zou… - Nano Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Perovskite-based light-emitting diodes (PeLEDs) are an emerging lighting and display due
to their extraordinarily photoelectric characteristics. In the past few years, external quantum …

Bandgap Funneling in Bismuth‐Based Hybrid Perovskite Photocatalyst with Efficient Visible‐Light‐Driven Hydrogen Evolution

Y Tang, CH Mak, C Wang, Y Fu, FF Li, G Jia… - Small …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The photocatalytic system using hydrohalic acid (HX) for hydrogen production is a promising
strategy to generate clean and renewable fuels as well as value‐added chemicals (such as …

Molecular understanding of fullerene–electron donor interactions in organic solar cells

SM Ryno, MK Ravva, X Chen, H Li… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells hold promise of providing low‐cost, renewable power generation, with
current devices providing up to 13% power conversion efficiency. The rational design of …

Effect of acceptor unit length and planarity on the optoelectronic properties of isoindigo–thiophene donor–acceptor polymers

NM Randell, CL Radford, J Yang, J Quinn… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Conjugated polymers with a donor–acceptor (DA) structural motif have found extensive use
in a wide variety of optoelectronic devices; however, despite their ubiquity in the literature …