Functional naphthalene diimides: synthesis, properties, and applications

M Al Kobaisi, SV Bhosale, K Latham… - Chemical …, 2016 - ACS Publications
This comprehensive review surveys developments over the past decade in the field of
naphthalene diimides (NDIs). It explores their application toward: supramolecular chemistry; …

Recent progress in the development of n-type organic semiconductors for organic field effect transistors

JTE Quinn, J Zhu, X Li, J Wang, Y Li - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
This review highlights recent major progress in the development of organic semiconductors
as electron transport n-channel materials in organic field effect transistors (OFETs). Three …

Improving interfacial charge recombination in planar heterojunction perovskite photovoltaics with small molecule as electron transport layer

N Wang, K Zhao, T Ding, W Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Although perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising alternative to widely
used fossil fuels, the involved high‐temperature preparation of metal oxides as a charge …

Azaacenes as active elements for sensing and bio applications

PY Gu, Z Wang, Q Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Since azaacenes have electron-deficient backbones and lone-pair electrons on nitrogen
centers, they can efficiently detect the target molecules or ions through supramolecular …

Naphthalene diimides as multimodal G-quadruplex-selective ligands

V Pirota, M Nadai, F Doria, SN Richter - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
G-quadruplexes are four-stranded nucleic acids structures that can form in guanine-rich
sequences. Following the observation that G-quadruplexes are particularly abundant in …

Switching charge-transfer characteristics from p-type to n-type through molecular “doping”(co-crystallization)

J Zhang, P Gu, G Long, R Ganguly, Y Li, N Aratani… - Chemical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Borrowing an idea from the silicon industry, where the charge-carrier's characteristics can be
changed through heteroatom implantation, we believe that the charge transport nature of …

Supramolecular tessellations by a rigid naphthalene diimide triangle

Y Beldjoudi, A Narayanan, I Roy… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Tessellation of organic polygons though [π··· π] and charge-transfer (CT) interactions offers a
unique opportunity to construct supramolecular organic electronic materials with 2D …

Thionation enhances the performance of polymeric dopant‐free hole‐transporting materials for perovskite solar cells

H Zhang, M Liu, W Yang, L Judin… - Advanced Materials …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
To date, the most efficient perovskite solar cells (PSCs) require hole‐transporting materials
(HTMs) that are doped with hygroscopic additives to improve their performance …

[HTML][HTML] Crystal alignment for high performance organic electronics devices

Z He, J Chen, D Li - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Organic electronics devices based on high-performance small-molecule organic
semiconductors have gained substantial attention because of their unique advantages such …

Drastic improvement of air stability in an n-type doped naphthalene-diimide polymer by thionation

D Nava, Y Shin, M Massetti, X Jiao… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Organic thermoelectrics are attractive for the fabrication of flexible and cost-effective
thermoelectric generators (TEGs) for waste heat recovery, in particular by exploiting large …