• A comparison of para, meta, and ortho-carborane centred non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells 

      Aniés, Filip; Furlan, Francesco; Qiao, Zhuoran; Pirela, Valentina; Bidwell, Matthew; Rimmele, Martina; Martín, Jaime; Gasparini, Nicola; Heeney, Martin (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023-03-28)
      [Abstract]: We report the first examples of carborane-containing non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), and their use in organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices. NFAs employing an A–D–A′–D–A type design centred around a central electron ...
    • Comparing the Microstructure and Photovoltaic Performance of 3 Perylene Imide Acceptors With Similar Energy Levels but Different Packing Tendencies 

      Adel, Rana; Gala, Elena; Alonso Navarro, Matías Jesús; Gutiérrez Fernández, Edgar; Martín, Jaime; Stella, Marco; Martínez-Ferrero, Eugenia; de la Peña, Alejandro; Harbuzaru Harbuzaru, Alexandra; Ramos, M.Mar; Ponce Ortiz, Rocío; Segura, José L.; Campoy-Quiles, Mariano (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2022)
      [Abstract] While it is widely recognized that microstructure plays an important role in the performance of organic photovoltaics (OPV), systematic studies are often challenging, as varying the molecular packing through ...
    • Crystallization-Induced Gelling as a Method to 4D Print Low-Water-Content Non-isocyanate Polyurethane Hydrogels 

      Fanjul-Mosteirín, Noé; Aguirresarobe, Robert; Sadaba, Naroa; Larrañaga, Aitor; Marín, Edurne; Martín, Jaime; Ramos-Gómez, Nicolás; Arno, Maria Chiara (American Chemical Society, 2021)
      [Abstract] The use of three-dimensional (3D) printable hydrogels for biomedical applications has attracted considerable attention as a consequence of the ability to precisely define the morphology of the printed object, ...
    • Design Rules for Polymer Blends with High Thermoelectric Performance 

      Zapata-Arteaga, Osnat; Marina, Sara; Zuo, Guangzheng; Xu, Kai; Dörling, Bernhard; Pérez, Luis Alberto; Reparaz, Juan Sebastian; Martín, Jaime; Kemerink, Martijn; Campoy-Quiles, Mariano (John Wiley & Sons, 2022-04-07)
      [Abstract] A combinatorial study of the effect of in-mixing of various guests on the thermoelectric properties of the host workhorse polymer poly[2,5-bis(3-tetradecylthiophen- 2-yl)thieno[3,2-b]thiophene] (PBTTT) is ...
    • Enhanced Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance of Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymers Modified with Hybrid Glycol/Ionic Side Chains by Postpolymerization Modification 

      Ding, Bowen; Jo, Il-Young; Yu, Hang; Kim, Ji Hwan; Marsh, Adam V.; Gutiérrez-Fernández, Edgar; Ramos, Nicolás; Rapley, Charlotte L.; Rimmele, Martina; He, Qiao; Martín, Jaime; Gasparini, Nicola; Nelson, Jenny; Yoon, Myung-Han; Heeney, Martin (American Chemical Society, 2023-04-11)
      [Abstract] Emergent bioelectronic technologies are underpinned by the organic electrochemical transistor (OECT), which employs an electrolyte medium to modulate the conductivity of its organic semiconductor channel. Here ...
    • Gold(III) Porphyrin Was Used as an Electron Acceptor for Efficient Organic Solar Cells 

      Cuesta, Virginia; Singh, Manish Kumar; Gutiérrez Fernández, Edgar; Martín, Jaime; Domínguez, Rocío; Cruz, Pilar de la; Sharma, G. D; Langa, Fernando (American Chemical Society, 2022-02-23)
      [Abstract] The widespread use of nonfullerene-based electron-accepting materials has triggered a rapid increase in the performance of organic photovoltaic devices. However, the number of efficient acceptor compounds available ...
    • Influence of Backbone Curvature on the Organic Electrochemical Transistor Performance of Glycolated Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymers 

      Ding, Bowen; Kim, Gunwoo; Kim, Youngseok; Eisner, Flurin D.; Gutiérrez-Fernández, Edgar; Martín, Jaime; Yoon, Myung-Han; Heeney, Martin (Wiley-VCH, 2021-09)
      [Abstract] Two new glycolated semiconducting polymers PgBT(F)2gT and PgBT(F)2gTT of differing backbone curvatures were designed and synthesised for application as p-type accumulation mode organic electrochemical transistor ...
    • Physical Aging Behavior of a Glassy Polyether 

      Monnier, Xavier; Marina, Sara; López de Pariza, Xabier; Sardón, Haritz; Martín, Jaime; Cangialosi, Daniele (MDPI, 2021)
      [Abstract] The present work aims to provide insights on recent findings indicating the presence of multiple equilibration mechanisms in physical aging of glasses. To this aim, we have investigated a glass forming polyether, ...
    • Polymorphism in Non-Fullerene Acceptors Based on Indacenodithienothiophene 

      Marina, Sara; Scaccabarozzi, Alberto D.; Gutiérrez-Fernández, Edgar; Solano, Eduardo; Khirbat, Aditi; Ciammaruchi, Laura; Iturrospe, Amaia; Balzer, Alex; Yu, Liyang; Gabirondo, Elena; Monnier, Xavier; Sardón, Haritz; Anthopoulos, Thomas D.; Caironi, Mario; Campoy-Quiles, Mariano; Müller, Christian; Cangialosi, Daniele; Stingelin, Natalie; Martín, Jaime (Wiley, 2021)
      [Abstract] Organic solar cells incorporating non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have reached remarkable power conversion efficiencies of over 18%. Unlike fullerene derivatives, NFAs tend to crystallize from solutions, resulting ...
    • Unraveling the complex polymorphic crystallization behavior of the alternating copolymer DMDS-alt-DVE 

      Pirela, Valentina; Elgoyhen, Justine; Tomovska, Radmila; Martín, Jaime; Cuong, M.Q. Le; Chemtob, Abraham; Bessif, Brahim; Heck, Barbara; Reiter, Günter; Müller, Alejandro J. (American Chemical Society, 2023-07-14)
      [Abstract]: A complex crystallization behavior was observe the alternating copolymer DMDS-alt-step-growth polymerization. Understanding the underlying complex crystallization processes of such innovative polythioethers is ...
    • Unraveling the Influence of the Preexisting Molecular Order on the Crystallization of Semiconducting Semicrystalline Poly(9,9-di‑n‑octylfluorenyl-2,7-diyl (PFO) 

      Pirela, Valentina; Campoy-Quiles, Mariano; Müller, Alejandro J.; Martín, Jaime (ACS Publications, 2022-11-23)
      [Abastract]: Understanding the complex crystallization process of semiconducting polymers is key for the advance of organic electronic technologies as the optoelectronic properties of these materials are intimately connected ...
    • Y6 Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Electron Mobilities of 2.4 cm² V⁻¹ s⁻¹ via Microstructural Tuning 

      Gutiérrez Fernández, Edgar; Scaccabarozzi, Alberto D.; Basu, Aniruddha; Solano, Eduardo; Anthopoulos, Thomas D.; Martín, Jaime (2022-01-05)
      [Abstract] There is a growing demand to attain organic materials with high electron mobility, μe, as current reliable reported values are significantly lower than those exhibited by their hole mobility counterparts. Here, ...