Nicholas D. Eastham
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View article: Side Chain and Solvent Direction of Film Morphology in Small-Molecule Organic Solar Materials
Side Chain and Solvent Direction of Film Morphology in Small-Molecule Organic Solar Materials Open
Film morphology control is essential to materials development for efficient organic solar cells (OSCs). Unlocking methods to optimize the film morphology for materials without changing the fundamental electronic characteristics can enable …
View article: Photoactive Blend Morphology Engineering through Systematically Tuning Aggregation in All‐Polymer Solar Cells
Photoactive Blend Morphology Engineering through Systematically Tuning Aggregation in All‐Polymer Solar Cells Open
Polymer aggregation plays a critical role in the miscibility of materials and the performance of all‐polymer solar cells (APSCs). However, many aspects of how polymer texturing and aggregation affect photoactive blend film microstructure a…
View article: CCDC 1817194: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817194: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: Hole‐Transfer Dependence on Blend Morphology and Energy Level Alignment in Polymer: ITIC Photovoltaic Materials
Hole‐Transfer Dependence on Blend Morphology and Energy Level Alignment in Polymer: ITIC Photovoltaic Materials Open
Bulk‐heterojunction organic photovoltaic materials containing nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) have seen remarkable advances in the past year, finally surpassing fullerenes in performance. Indeed, acceptors based on indacenodithiophene (IDT) …
View article: Aggregation control in natural brush-printed conjugated polymer films and implications for enhancing charge transport
Aggregation control in natural brush-printed conjugated polymer films and implications for enhancing charge transport Open
Significance Shear-printing of electroactive polymers using natural brushes is a promising film deposition technique for printed electronics capable of microstructure control and electrical properties enhancement over large areas. Neverthe…
View article: In Situ GIWAXS Analysis of Solvent and Additive Effects on PTB7 Thin Film Microstructure Evolution during Spin Coating
In Situ GIWAXS Analysis of Solvent and Additive Effects on PTB7 Thin Film Microstructure Evolution during Spin Coating Open
The influence of solvent and processing additives on the pathways and rates of crystalline morphology formation for spin‐coated semiconducting PTB7 (poly[[4,8‐bis[(2‐ethylhexyl)oxy]benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b′]dithiophene‐2,6‐diyl][3‐fluoro‐2‐[(2‐et…
View article: Enhanced Fill Factor through Chalcogen Side-Chain Manipulation in Small-Molecule Photovoltaics
Enhanced Fill Factor through Chalcogen Side-Chain Manipulation in Small-Molecule Photovoltaics Open
The fill factor (FF) of organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices has proven difficult to optimize by synthetic modification of the active layer materials. In this contribution, a series of small-molecule donors (SMDs) incorporating chalcogen ato…
View article: Ring-fusion as a perylenediimide dimer design concept for high-performance non-fullerene organic photovoltaic acceptors
Ring-fusion as a perylenediimide dimer design concept for high-performance non-fullerene organic photovoltaic acceptors Open
A series of perylenediimide (PDI) dimers are evaluated as acceptors for organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells.