Recent advances in triplet–triplet annihilation upconversion and singlet fission, towards solar energy applications

AJ Carrod, V Gray, K Börjesson - Energy & Environmental Science, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar energy is an ample renewable energy resource, with photovoltaic (PV) technology
enabling a direct route from light to electricity. Currently, PVs are limited in photon …

Persistent and stable organic radicals: Design, synthesis, and applications

ZX Chen, Y Li, F Huang - Chem, 2021 - cell.com
Open-shell radicals are usually thermodynamically and kinetically unstable due to their
incompletely satisfied valency. However, the rapid development of radical chemistry in the …

Recent progress in high‐mobility organic transistors: a reality check

AF Paterson, S Singh, KJ Fallon, T Hodsden… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past three decades, significant research efforts have focused on improving the
charge carrier mobility of organic thin‐film transistors (OTFTs). In recent years, a commonly …

Mixed electronic states in molecular dimers: Connecting singlet fission, excimer formation, and symmetry-breaking charge transfer

RM Young, MR Wasielewski - Accounts of chemical research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Chromophore aggregates are capable of a wide variety of excited-state
dynamics that are potentially of great use in optoelectronic devices based on organic …

Theoretical modeling of singlet fission

D Casanova - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission is a photophysical reaction in which a singlet excited electronic state splits
into two spin-triplet states. Singlet fission was discovered more than 50 years ago, but the …

Unconventional singlet fission materials

T Ullrich, D Munz, DM Guldi - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Singlet fission (SF) is a photophysical downconversion pathway, in which a singlet excitation
transforms into two triplet excited states. As such, it constitutes an exciton multiplication …

Pyrazine-flanked diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP): a new polymer building block for high-performance n-type organic thermoelectrics

X Yan, M Xiong, JT Li, S Zhang, Z Ahmad… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
n-Doped conjugated polymers usually show low electrical conductivities and low
thermoelectric power factors, limiting their applications in n-type organic thermoelectrics …

The effect of H‐and J‐aggregation on the photophysical and photovoltaic properties of small thiophene–pyridine–DPP molecules for bulk‐heterojunction solar cells

M Más‐Montoya, RAJ Janssen - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The performance of organic semiconductors in optoelectronic devices depends on the
functional properties of the individual molecules and their mutual orientations when they are …

Elastic organic semiconducting single crystals for durable all-flexible field-effect transistors: insights into the bending mechanism

R Samanta, S Das, S Mondal, T Alkhidir… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Although many examples of mechanically flexible crystals are currently known, their utility in
all-flexible devices is not yet adequately demonstrated, despite their immense potential for …

Exploiting excited-state aromaticity to design highly stable singlet fission materials

KJ Fallon, P Budden, E Salvadori… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Singlet fission, the process of forming two triplet excitons from one singlet exciton, is a
characteristic reserved for only a handful of organic molecules due to the atypical energetic …