Molecular design of stretchable polymer semiconductors: current progress and future directions

Y Zheng, S Zhang, JBH Tok, Z Bao - Journal of the American …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Stretchable polymer semiconductors have advanced rapidly in the past decade as materials
required to realize conformable and soft skin-like electronics become available. Through …

Intrinsically stretchable conjugated polymer semiconductors in field effect transistors

M Ashizawa, Y Zheng, H Tran, Z Bao - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Stretchable electronics have increasingly gained interest both in the academic and industrial
communities owing to its potential to enable a wide variety of applications, especially …

Flexible-spacer incorporated polymer donors enable superior blend miscibility for high-performance and mechanically-robust polymer solar cells

JW Lee, D Jeong, DJ Kim, TNL Phan, JS Park… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Developing polymer solar cells (PSCs) with high photovoltaic performance and mechanical
robustness is one of the most urgent tasks to ensure their operational reliability and …

Optimization requirements of efficient polythiophene: nonfullerene organic solar cells

Z Liang, M Li, Q Wang, Y Qin, SJ Stuard, Z Peng… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Polythiophene (PT) and its derivatives have attracted long-standing attention in the organic
photovoltaic community for their low cost and high scalability of synthesis. However, due to …

Semiconducting polymer blends that exhibit stable charge transport at high temperatures

A Gumyusenge, DT Tran, X Luo, GM Pitch, Y Zhao… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Although high-temperature operation (ie, beyond 150° C) is of great interest for many
electronics applications, achieving stable carrier mobilities for organic semiconductors at …

Highly deformable rigid glassy conjugated polymeric thin films

Y Wang, S Zhang, G Freychet, Z Li… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Wearable devices benefit from the use of stretchable conjugated polymers (CPs).
Traditionally, the design of stretchable CPs is based on the assumption that a low elastic …

Effects of flexible conjugation-break spacers of non-conjugated polymer acceptors on photovoltaic and mechanical properties of all-polymer solar cells

Q Chen, YH Han, LR Franco, CFN Marchiori… - Nano-Micro Letters, 2022 - Springer
Highlights A series of non-conjugated acceptor polymers with flexible conjugation-break
spacers (FCBSs) of different lengths were synthesized. The effect of FCBSs length on …

Influence of dopant size and electron affinity on the electrical conductivity and thermoelectric properties of a series of conjugated polymers

Z Liang, Y Zhang, M Souri, X Luo, AM Boehm… - Journal of Materials …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical doping is widely used to manipulate the electrical and thermoelectric properties of
organic semiconductors, yet intelligent design of polymer–dopant systems remains elusive …

Side-chain engineering of conjugated polymers for high-performance organic field-effect transistors

N Luo, P Ren, Y Feng, X Shao… - The Journal of Physical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Past decades have witnessed the rapid development of conjugated polymers because of
their promising semiconducting properties and applications in organic field-effect transistors …

Impact of backbone rigidity on the thermomechanical properties of semiconducting polymers with conjugation break spacers

LA Galuska, WW McNutt, Z Qian, S Zhang… - …, 2020 - ACS Publications
There remains a lack of fundamental understanding in the role of backbone rigidity on the
thermomechanical properties of conjugated polymers. Here, we provide the first holistic …