Silicon phthalocyanines: synthesis and resurgent applications

K Mitra, MCT Hartman - Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The intense far-red absorption and emission features have made silicon phthalocyanines
(SiPcs) distinct from the structurally related porphyrin analogues. Unlike most other …

Effect of third component on efficiency and stability in ternary organic solar cells: more than a simple superposition

S Jung, Y Cho, SH Kang, SJ Yoon, C Yang - Solar RRL, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ternary organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted much attention due to them being high‐
performance solar cells. Ternary OSCs represent an efficient strategy to gain both the …

The rise of silicon phthalocyanine: from organic photovoltaics to organic thin film transistors

BH Lessard - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2021 - ACS Publications
Silicon phthalocyanines are emerging n-type semiconductors for use in organic
photovoltaics (OPVs) and organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs). Their low synthetic …

Unique energy alignments of a ternary material system toward high‐performance organic photovoltaics

P Cheng, J Wang, Q Zhang, W Huang, J Zhu… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Incorporating narrow‐bandgap near‐infrared absorbers as the third component in a
donor/acceptor binary blend is a new strategy to improve the power conversion efficiency …

Reactive & efficient: Organic azides as cross-linkers in material sciences

M Schock, S Bräse - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
The exceptional reactivity of the azide group makes organic azides a highly versatile family
of compounds in chemistry and the material sciences. One of the most prominent reactions …

Photoinduced thermal polymerization reactions

AH Bonardi, F Bonardi, F Morlet-Savary… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The combination of thermally induced and photoinduced free radical polymerization of
(meth) acrylic monomers has only been scarcely presented in the literature. In this study, a …

Designing benzothiadiazole based highly efficient non-fullerene acceptor molecules for organic solar cells

QQ Afzal, K Jaffar, M Ans, J Rafique, J Iqbal… - Polymer, 2022 - Elsevier
This research is carried out to investigate photovoltaic characteristics of the six modified
molecules derived from benzothiadiazole core-based reference molecule JY5, using four …

Thermodynamic Property–Performance Relationships in Silicon Phthalocyanine-Based Organic Photovoltaics

MC Vebber, NA Rice, JL Brusso… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Axially substituted silicon phthalocyanines [(R3SiO) 2-SiPc] have recently emerged as
promising alternatives to fullerenes in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), with advances in both …

Silicon Phthalocyanines for n-Type Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Development of Structure–Property Relationships

B King, OA Melville, NA Rice, S Kashani… - ACS Applied …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Silicon phthalocyanines (SiPcs) have shown great potential as n-type or ambipolar organic
semiconductors in organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) and organic photovoltaics. Although …

Organic photovoltaics: where are we headed?

FM van der Staaij, IM van Keulen, E von Hauff - Solar RRL, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic photovoltaics (OPV) is an emerging technology that combines semi‐transparency
and flexibility in lightweight, ultrathin solar modules. The record power conversion …