The meniscus-guided deposition of semiconducting polymers

X Gu, L Shaw, K Gu, MF Toney, Z Bao - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
The electronic devices that play a vital role in our daily life are primarily based on silicon and
are thus rigid, opaque, and relatively heavy. However, new electronics relying on polymer …

Chain conformations and phase behavior of conjugated polymers

B Kuei, ED Gomez - Soft matter, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Conjugated polymers may play an important role in various emerging optoelectronic
applications because they combine the chemical versatility of organic molecules and the …

Development and application of blade-coating technique in organic solar cells

X Zhang, H Zhang, S Li, L **ao, S Zhang, B Han… - Nano Research, 2023 - Springer
Due to the characteristics of lower material waste, higher crystallinity, roll-to-roll
compatibility, and high-throughput continuous processing, blade-coating has been widely …

Meniscus-guided coating of organic crystalline thin films for high-performance organic field-effect transistors

Z Lu, C Wang, W Deng, MT Achille, J Jie… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic semiconductors (OSCs) are promising materials for low-cost and large-area
electronic devices because they can be processed from solution employing scalable and …

In-plane aligned assemblies of 1D-nanoobjects: recent approaches and applications

H Hu, S Wang, X Feng, M Pauly, G Decher… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
One-dimensional (1D) nanoobjects have strongly anisotropic physical properties which are
averaged out and cannot be exploited in disordered systems. The goal of the present review …

Tuning Orientational Order of Highly Aggregating P(NDI2OD-T2) by Solvent Vapor Annealing and Blade Coating

D Trefz, YM Gross, C Dingler, R Tkachov… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Its inherent strong tendency to aggregate in solution is used in the following study to prepare
highly anisotropic films of the n-type copolymer poly {[N, N′-bis (2-octyldodecyl) …

Predictive modelling of structure formation in semiconductor films produced by meniscus-guided coating

JJ Michels, K Zhang, P Wucher, PM Beaujuge… - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
Meniscus-guided coating methods, such as zone casting, dip coating and solution shearing,
are scalable laboratory models for large-area solution coating of functional materials for thin …

Alignment and charge transport of one-dimensional conjugated polymer nanowires in insulating polymer blends

M Chang, Z Su, E Egap - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
Self-assembled and well-aligned nanowires (NWs) of poly (3-hexylthiophenes)(P3HT)
embedded within insulating polystyrene (PS) matrix were found to have a high field-effect …

NEXAFS spectroscopy reveals the molecular orientation in blade-coated pyridal [2, 1, 3] thiadiazole-containing conjugated polymer thin films

SN Patel, GM Su, C Luo, M Wang, LA Perez… - …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The characterization of the microstructure and molecular orientation is critical to
understanding the performance of conjugated polymer semiconductors. In this work, near …

Macroscopic alignment of one-dimensional conjugated polymer nanocrystallites for high-mobility organic field-effect transistors

M Chang, D Choi, E Egap - ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2016 - ACS Publications
Controlling the morphology of polymer semiconductors remains a fundamental challenge
that hinders their widespread applications in electronic and optoelectronic devices and …