Subtopic 2: Solution Processed Excitonic Solar Cells

List of publications (In alphabetical order of authors' name):

  Inter-institutional collaborations are denoted with # Year of publication Author(s) (corresponding author are denoted with an asterisk*) Title and iournal/book
1 # 2015 Yang Bai, Hui Yu, Zonglong Zhu, Kui Jiang, Teng Zhang, Ni Zhao*, Shihe Yang* & He Yan* High performance inverted structure perovskite solar cells based on a PCBM:polystyrene blend electron transport layer. J of Materials Chemistry A, 3(17): 9098-102. DOI: 10.1039/c4ta05309e
2   2016 Jie Cao, Feng Wang,  Hui Yu, Yang Zhou, Haipeng Lu, Ni Zhao* & Ching-Ping Wong* Porous PbI2 films for the fabrication of efficient, stable perovskite solar cells via sequential deposition. Journal of Materials  Chemistry A, 4(26): 10223 - 30. DOI: 10.1039/c6ta03121h
3   2017 Jie Cao, Hui Yu, Shuang Zhou, Minchao Qin, Tsz-Ki Lau, Xinhui Lu, Ni Zhao* & Ching-Ping Wong* Low-temperature solution-processed NiOx films for air-stable perovskite solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(22): 11071 - 7. DOI: 10.1039/c7ta02228j
4   2015 Shuai Chang & Tao Chen* Mesoscopic solar cell sensitization: From dye to organometal perovskite. Current Nanoscience, 11(6): 685-701, DOI: 10.2174/1573413711666150416225121
5   2014 Shuai Chang,   King Young Wong,   Xudong Xiao & Tao Chen* Effective improvement of the photovoltaic performance of black dye sensitized quasi-solid-state solar cells. RSC Advances, 4(60): 31759-31763. DOI: 10.1039/C4RA04017A
6   2017 Shangshang Chen, Guangye Zhang, Jing Liu, Huatong Yao, Jianquan Zhang, Tingxuan Ma, Zhengke Li & He Yan* An all-solution processed recombination layer with mild post-treatment enabling efficient homo-tandem non-fullerene organic solar cells. Advanced Materials, 29(6):  1604231. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201604231
7   2017 Zefeng Chen, Zhao Wang, Xinming Li*, Yuxuan Lin, Ningqi Luo, Mingzhu Long, Ni Zhao & Jian-Bin Xu* Flexible piezoelectric-induced pressure sensors for static measurements based on nanowires/graphene heterostructures. ACS Nano, 11(5): 4507 - 13. DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.6b08027
8 # 2016 Hong-Hua Fang, Feng Wang, Sampson Adjokatse, Ni Zhao* & Maria Antonietta Loi* Photoluminescence Enhancement in Formamidinium lead iodide thin films. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(26): 4653 - 9. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201600715
9   2015 Jian He, Baohua Wang, Shuai Chang & Tao Chen Chapter 4: Ruthenium-Based Photosensitizers for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Organometallics and Related Molecules for Energy Conversion, Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology, pp 91-114. DOI 10.1007/978-3-662-46054-2_4
10 # 2017 Yikun Guo, Yunke Li, Omar Awartani, Han Han, Jingbo Zhao, Harald Ade,* He Yan* & Dahui Zhao* Improved performance of all-polymer solar cells enabled by naphthodiperylenetetraimide-based polymer acceptor. Advanced Materials, 29: 1700309. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201700309
11 # 2016 Yikun Guo, Yunke Li, Omar Awartani, Jingbo Zhao, Han Han, Harald Ade*, Dahui Zhao* & He Yan* A vinylene-bridged perylenediimide-based polymeric acceptor enabling efficient all-polymer solar cells processed under ambient conditions. Advanced Materials, 28(38): 8483 - 9. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201602387
12   2015 Jian He & Tao Chen* Additive regulated crystallization and film formation of CH3NH3PbI3-xBrx for highly efficient planar-heterojunction solar cells. J of Mat Chem A, 3: 18514-20. DOI: 10.1039/c5ta05373k
13 # 2016 Jian He, Chun-Fai Ng, King Young Wong, Weifeng Liu & Tao Chen* Photostability and moisture stability of CH3NH3PbI3-based solar cells by ethyl cellulose. Chempluschem, 81(12): 1292 - 8. DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201600415
14 # 2016 Po-Yu Ho, Chi-Ho Siu, Wai-Hong Yu, Panwang Zhou, Tao Chen*, Cheuk-Lam Ho*, Lawrence Tien Lin Lee, Ying-Hsuan Feng, Jianyong Liu, Keli Han*, Yih Hsing Lo* & Wai-Yeung Wong* Molecular engineering of starburst triarylamine donor with selenophene containing p-linker for dye-sensitized solar cells, J of Mat Chem C, 4(4):713-26. DOI: 10.1039/c5tc03308j
15 # 2016 Huawei Hu, Kui Jiang, Joo-Hyun Kim, Guofang Yang, Zhengke Li, Tingxuan Ma, Guanghao Lu, Yongquan Qu*, Harald Ade* & He Yan* Influence of fluorination on the properties and performance of isoindigo-quaterthiophene-based polymers. J of Materials Chemistry A, 4(14): 5039-43. DOI: 10.1039/c6ta00006a
16 # 2015 Huawei Hu, Kui Jiang, Guofang Yang; Jing Liu, Zhengke Li, Haoran Lin, Yuhang Liu, Jingbo Zhao, Jie Zhang, Fei Huang, Yongquan Qu, Wei Ma* & He Yan* Terthiophene-based D-A polymer with an asymmetric arrangement of alkyl chains that enables efficient polymer solar cells. J of The American Chemical Society, 137(44): 14149-57. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b08556
17 # 2016 Linkai Li, Feng Wang, Xiaojing Wu, Hui Yu, Shuang Zhou & Ni Zhao* Carrier-activated polarization in organometal halide perovskites. J of Physical Chemistry C, 120(5): 2536-41. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11627
18 # 2016 Zhengke Li*, Kui Jiang*, Guofang Yang*,  Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Tingxuan Ma, Jingbo Zhao, Wei Ma & He Yan Donor polymer design enables efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells. Nature  Communications, 7: 13094. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13094
19 # 2015 Zhengke Li, Haoran Lin, Kui Jiang, Joshua Carpenter, Yunke Li, Yuhang Liu, Huawei Hu, Jingbo Zhao, Wei Ma, Harald Ade* & He Yan* Dramatic performance enhancement for large bandgap thick-film polymer solar cells introduced by a difluorinated donor unit. Nano Energy, 15: 607-15. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.05.016
20 # 2016 Haoran Lin, Shangshang Chen, Huawei Hu, Lu Zhang, Tingxuan Ma, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai,  Zhengke Li, Anjun Qin, Xuhui Huang, Benzhong Tang & He Yan* Reduced intramolecular twisting improves the performance of 3D molecular acceptors in non-fullerene organic solar cells. Advanced Materials, 28(38): 8546 - 51. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600997
21 # 2015 Haoran Lin, Shangshang Chen, Zhengke Li, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Guofang Yang, Terry McAfee, Kui Jiang, Yunke Li, Yuhang Liu, Huawei Hu, Jingbo Zhao, Wei Ma, Harald Ade & He Yan* High-performance non-fullerene polymer solar cells based on a pair of donor-acceptor materials with complementary absorption properties. Advanced Materials, 27(45): 7299-304. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201502775.
22 # 2016 Jing Liu, Shangshang Chen, Deping Qian, Bhoj Gautam, Guofang Yang, Jingbo Zhao, Jonas Bergqvist, Fengling Zhang,Wei Ma, Harald Ade, Olle Inganäs, Kenan Gundogdu*, Feng Gao* & He Yan* Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force. Nature Energy, 1, Article number: 16089. DOI: 10.1038/NENERGY.2016.89
23   2017 Yuhang Liu,  Shangshang Chen,  Guangye Zhang,  Philip C. Y. Chow  &  He Yan* A wide bandgap conjugated polymer based on a vertically connected benzodithiophene unit enabling efficient non-fullerene polymer solar cells. J of Materials Chemistry A, 5 (29):15017 – 20. DOI: 10.1039/c7ta03600k AUG 7 2017
24 # 2015 Yuhang Liu, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Shangshang Chen, Yunke Li, Kui Jiang, Jingbo Zhao, Zhengke Li, Huawei Hu, Tingxuan Ma, Haoran Lin, Jing Liu, Jie Zhang, Fei Huang, Demei Yu & He Yan* Efficient non-fullerene polymer solar cells enabled by tetrahedron-shaped core based 3D-structure small-molecular electron acceptors. J of Materials Chemistry A, 3(26): 13632-6. DOI: 10.1039/c5ta03093e
25 # 2015 Yuhang Liu, Cheng Mu, Kui Jiang, Jingbo Zhao, Yunke Li, Lu Zhang, Zhengke Li, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Huawei Hu, Tingxuan Ma; Rongrong Hu, Demei Yu, Xuhui Huang, Ben Zhong Tang & He Yan* A tetraphenylethylene core-based 3D structure small molecular acceptor enabling efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells. Advanced Materials, 27(6): 1015-20. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201404152
26 # 2014 Yuhang Liu*, Jingbo Zhao*, Zhengke Li*, Cheng Mu, Wei Ma, Huawei Hu, Kui Jiang, Haoran Lin, Harald Ade &  He Yan Aggregation and morphology control enables multiple cases of high-efficiency polymer solar cells. Nature Communications, 5: 5293. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6293
27 # 2016 Mingzhu Long, Zefeng Chen, Tiankai Zhang, Yubin Xiao, Xiaoliang Zeng, Jian Chan, Keyou Yan* & Jianbin Xu* Ultrathin efficient perovskite solar cells employing a periodic structure of a composite hole conductor for elevated plasmonic light harvesting and hole collection. Nanoscale, 8(12): 6290-9. DOI: 10.1039/c5nr05042a
28 # 2016 Mingzhu Long, Tiankai Zhang, Yang Chai, Chun-Fai Ng,  Thomas C. W. Mak, Jianbin Xu & Keyou Yan Nonstoichiometric acid-base reaction as reliable synthetic route to highly stable CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite film. Nature Communications, 7: 13503. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13503
29 # 2017 Mingzhu Long*, Tiankai Zhang*, Wangying Xu, Xiaoliang Zeng, Fangyan Xie, Qiang Li, Zefeng Chen,  Fengrui Zhou, Kam Sing Wong, Keyou* Yan & Jianbin Xu* Large-grain formamidinium PbI3-xBrx for high-performance perovskite solar cells via intermediate halide exchange. Advanced Energy Materials, 7(12): 1601882. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201601882
30 # 2017 Mingzhu Long, Tiankai Zhang, Houyu Zhu, Guixia Li, Feng Wang, Wenyue Guo, Yang Chai, Wei Chen, Qiang Li, Kam Sing Wong, Jianbin Xu* & Keyou Yan* Textured CH3NH3PbI3 thin film with enhanced stability for high performance perovskite solar cells. Nano Energy, 33: 485 - 96. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2017.02.002
31 # 2015 Tingxuan Ma, Kui Jiang, Shangshang Chen, Huawei Hu, Haoran Lin, Zhengke Li, Jingbo Zhao, Yuhang Liu, Yi-Ming Chang, Chung-Chin Hsiao & He Yan* Efficient low-bandgap polymer solar cells with high open-circuit voltage and good stability. Advanced Energy Materials, 5(20): 1501282. DOI: 10.1002/aenm.201501282
32 # 2014 Yaorong Su, Weiguang Xie & Jianbin Xu*  Facile modification of Cu source-drain (S/D) electrodes for high-performance, low-voltage n-channel organic thin film transistors (OTFTs) based on C-60. Organic Electronics, 15(11): 3259-67. DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2014.07.032
33   2014 i Wan, Kun Chen & Jianbin Xu* Interface engineering for CVD graphene: current status and progress. Small, 10(22) (Special issue): 4443-54. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201401458
34   2015 Baohua Wang & Tao Chen* Exceptionally stable CH3NH3PbI3 Films in moderate humid environmental condition, Adv Sci, 3(2): 1500262. DOI: 10.1002/advs.201500262
35 # 2016 Baohua Wang, King Young Wong, Shangfeng Yang and Tao Chen* Crystallinity and defect state engineering in organo-lead halide perovskite for high-efficiency solar cells, J of Mat Chem A, 4: 3806-12. DOI: 10.1039/c5ta09249c
36   2015 Baohua Wang, King Young Wong, Xudong Xiao & Tao Chen*  Elucidating the reaction pathways in the synthesis of organolead trihalide perovskite for high-performance solar cells. Scientific Reports, 5: 10557. DOI: 10.1038/srep10557
37   2014 Baohua Wang, Xudong Xiao* & Tao Chen* Perovskite photovoltaics: A high-efficiency newcomer to solar cell family. Nanoscale, 6: 12287-12297. (Invited Minireview) DOI: 10.1039/c4nr04144e   
38 # 2016 Feng Wang, Wei Geng, Yang Zhou, Hong-Hua Fang, Chuan-Jia Tong, Maria Antonietta Loi, Li-Min Liu & Ni Zhao* Phenylalkylamine passivation of organolead halide perovskites enabling high-efficiency and air-stable photovoltaic cells. Advanced Materials, 28(45): 9986 - 92. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201603062
39 # 2016 Feng Wang, Jiale Ma, Fangyan Xie, Linkai Li, Jian Chen, Jun Fan & Ni Zhao* Organic cation-dependent degradation mechanism of organotin halide perovskites. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(20): 3417-23. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201505127
40   2015 Feng Wang, Hui Yu, Haihua Xu & Ni Zhao* HPbI3: A new precursor compound for highly efficient solution-processed perovskite solar cells. Advanced Functional Materials, 25(7): 1120-6. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201404007
41 # 2017 Yu Wang, Xiang Du,  Jiming Wang, Mingze Su, Xi Wan, Hui Meng, Weiguang Xie*, Jianbin Xu* & Pengyi Liu Growth of large-scale, large-size, few-layered alpha-MoO3 on SiO2 and its photoresponse mechanism. ACS Applied  Materials & Interfaces, 9(6): 5543 - 9. DOI: 10.1021/acs0mi.6b13743
42 # 2016 Fei Wu, Baohua Wang, Rui Wang, Yahan Shan, Dingyu Liu, King Young Wong, Tao Chen* &  Linna Zhu* Investigation on a dopant-free hole transport material for perovskite solar cells. RSC Advances, 6(73): 69365 - 9. DOI: 10.1039/c6ra07603c
43   2015 Xiaojing Wu, Hui Yu, Linkai Li, Feng Wang, Haihua Xu & Ni Zhao* Composition-dependent light-induced dipole moment change in organometal halide perovskites. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 119(2): 1253-9. DOI: 10.1021/jp511314a
44 # 2015 Zhengcui Wu, Baohua Wang, Jian He & Tao Chen* Synthesis of tunable-band-gap ‘‘Open-Box” halide perovskites by use of anion exchange and internal dissolution procedures, J of Colloid & Interface Sci, 461: 162-7. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2015.09.005
45 # 2016 Yubin Xiao, Han Wang, Shuang Zhou, Keyou Yan, Weiguang Xie, Zhiqiang Guan, Sai-Wing Tsang* & Jian-Bin Xu* Efficient ternary bulk heterojunction solar cells with PCDTBT as hole-cascade material. Nano Energy, 19: 476 - 85. DOI: 10.1016/j.nanoen.2015.11.016
46 # 2014 Yubin Xiao, Shuang Zhou, Yaorong Su, Han Wang, Lei Ye, Sai-Wing Tsang*, Fangyan Xie & Jianbin Xu* Enhanced efficiency of organic solar cells by mixed orthogonal solvents. Organic Electronics, 15(9): 2007-2013. DOI: 10.1016/ j.orgel.2014.05.011
47 # 2016 Keyou Yan*, Zhanhua Wei, Tiankai Zhang, Xiaoli Zheng, Mingzhu Long, Zefeng Chen, Weiguang Xie, Teng Zhang, Yuda Zhao, Jianbin Xu, Yang Chai* & Shihe Yang* Near-infrared photoresponse of one-sided abrupt MAPbI(3)/TiO2 heterojunction through a tunneling process. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(46): 8545 - 54. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201602736
48 # 2015 Keyou Yan*, Mingzhu Long, Tiankai Zhang, Zhanhua Wei, Haining Chen, Shihe Yang* & Jianbin Xu* Hybrid halide perovskite solar cell precursors: Colloidal chemistry and coordination engineering behind device processing for high efficiency. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 137(13): 4460-8. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b00321
49 # 2015 Keyou Yan, Zhanhua Wei, Jinkai Li, Haining Chen, Ya Yi, Xiaoli Zheng, Xia Long, Zilong Wang, Jiannong Wang, Jianbin Xu & Shihe Yang* High-performance graphene-based hole conductor-free perovskite solar cells: Schottky junction enhanced hole extraction and electron blocking. Small, 11(19): 2269-74. DOI: 10.1002/smll.201403348
50 # 2017 Guofang Yang, Zhengke Li, Kui Jiang, Jie Zhang, Jianya Chen,  Guangye Zhang, Fei Huang, Wei Ma* & He Yan* Optimal extent of fluorination enabling strong temperature-dependent aggregation, favorable blend morphology and high-efficiency polymer solar cells. Science China-Chemistry, 60(4): 545 - 51. DOI: 10.1007/s11426-016-0378-y
51 # 2016 Lei Ye, Hao Li, Zefeng Chen & Jianbin Xu* Near-infrared photodetector based on MoS2/black phosphorus heterojunction. ACS Photonics, 3(4): 692-9. DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00079
52   2014 Lei Ye, Hai-Hua Xu, Hui Yu, Wang-Ying Xu, Hao Li, Han Wang, Ni Zhao* & Jian-Bin Xu* Ternary bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells composed of small molecule donor additive as cascade material. Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 118(35): 20094−20099. DOI: 10.1021/jp504365y 
53 # 2016 Hui Yu, Haipeng Lu,  Fangyan Xie, Shuang Zhou & Ni Zhao* Native defect-induced hysteresis behavior in organolead iodide perovskite solar cells. Advanced Functional Materials, 26(9): 1411-9. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201504997
54 # 2014 Hui Yu, Feng Wang, Fangyan Xie, Wenwu Li, Jian Chen & Ni Zhao* The role of chlorine in the formation process of “CH3NH3PbI3-xClx” Perovskite. Advanced Functional Materials, 24(45): 7102-8. DOI: 10.1002/adfm.201401872.
55 # 2015 Xiaoliang Zeng, Lei Ye, Shuhui Yu, Hao Li, Rong Sun*, Jianbin Xu* & Ching-Ping Wong. Artificial nacre-like papers based on noncovalent functionalized boron nitride nanosheets with excellent mechanical and thermally conductive properties. Nanoscale, 7(15): 6774-81. DOI: 10.1039/c5nr00228a
56 # 2016 Tiankai Zhang, Mingzhu Long,  Keyou Yan, Xiaoliang Zeng, Fengrui Zhou, Zefeng Chen, Xi Wan, Kun Chen, Pengyi Liu, Faming Li, Tao Yu, Weiguang Xie* & Jianbin Xu* Facet-dependent property of sequentially deposited perovskite thin films: Chemical origin and self-annihilation. ACS Applied  Materials & Interfaces, 8(47): 32366 - 75. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b11986
57 # 2016 Jingbo Zhao, Yunke Li, Adrian Hunt, Jianquan Zhang, Huatong Yao,  Zhengke Li, Jie Zhang , Fei Huang , Harald Ade* & He Yan* A Difluorobenzoxadiazole building block for efficient polymer solar cells. Advanced Materials, 28: 1868-73. DOI: 10.1002/adma.201504611
58 # 2016 Jingbo Zhao, Yunke Li, Guofang Yang, Kui Jiang, Haoran Lin, Harald Ade, Wei Ma* & He Yan* Efficient organic solar cells processed from hydrocarbon solvents. Nature Energy, 1, Article number: 15027. DOI: 10.1038/NENERGY.2015.27
59 # 2015 Jingbo Zhao, Yunke Li, Jianquan Zhang, Lu Zhang, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Kui Jiang, Cheng Mu, Zhengke Li, Chun  Lam Clement Chan, Adrian Hunt, Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Harald Ade, Xuhui Huang & He Yan* The influence of spacer units on molecular properties and solar cell performance of non-fullerene acceptors. J of Materials Chemistry A, 3(40): 20108-12. DOI: 10.1039/c5ta05339k.
60 # 2015 Jingbo Zhao, Yunke Li, Haoran Lin, Yuhang Liu, Kui Jiang, Cheng Mu, Tingxuan Ma, Joshua Yuk Lin Lai, Huawei Hu, Demei Yu and He Yan* High-efficiency non-fullerene organic solar cells enabled by a difluorobenzothiadiazole-based donor polymer combined with a properly matched small molecule acceptor. Energy Environ Sci, 8: 520-525 DOI: 10.1039/C4EE02990A
61   2016 Xi Zhou, Dien Wang, Ji Wang, and Shih-Chi Chen* Precision design and control of a flexure-based roll-to-roll printing system. Precision Engineering 45: 332 – 41. DOI: 10.1016/j.precisioneng.2016.03.010
62   2015 Xi Zhou*, Huihua Xu*, Jiyi Cheng, Ni Zhao, & Shih-Chi Chen.  Flexure-based roll-to-roll platform: A practical solution for realizing large-area microcontact printing. Scientific Reports, 5: 10402. DOI:1040210.1038/srep10402
63 # 2016 Yang Zhou, Feng Wang, Hong-Hua Fang, Maria Antonietta Loi, Fang-Yan Xie, Ni Zhao* & Ching-Ping Wong* Distribution of bromine in mixed iodide-bromide organolead perovskites and its impact on photovoltaic performance. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 4(41): 16191 - 7. DOI: 10.1039/c6ta07647e
64 # 2016 Yangyang Zhou, Tiankai Zhang, Chunmei Li, Zhimin Liang, Li Gong, Jian Chen, Weiguang Xie,  Jianbin Xu & Pengyi Liu Rapid growth of high quality perovskite crystal by solvent mixing. CrystEngComm, 18(7): 1184-9. DOI: 10.1039/c5ce02428e
65 # 2016 Zonglong Zhu, Qifan Xue, Hexiang He, Kui Jiang, Zhicheng Hu, Yang Bai, Teng Zhang, Shuang Xiao, Kenan Gundogdu, Bhoj Raj Gautam,  Harald Ade, Fei Huang, Kam Sing Wong, Hin-Lap Yip*, Shihe Yang* & He Yan* A PCBM electron transport layer containing small amounts of dual polymer additives that enables enhanced perovskite solar cell performance. Advanced Science, 3(9): 1500353. DOI: 10.1002/advs.201500353
 

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