Brendan Timothy O'Connor

Ecofriendly Printing of Silver Nanowires with Cellulose Binder for Highly Robust Flexible Electronics

Liu, Y., Ren, P., Yang, L., O'Connor, B., Dong, J., & Zhu, Y. (2025, April 24). Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 4.

Examining the Mechanics of Polyester Coatings to Assess the Opportunity to Replace BPA in Metal Food Packaging

Shafe, A. A., Wang, H., Brown, C., He, H., Yin, J., Zhu, Y., & O’Connor, B. T. (2025, October 24). ACS Applied Polymer Materials.

Improving Adhesion in Organic Photovoltaic Cells with Self-Assembled Monolayers

Shafe, A. A., Raza, S., Henry, R., Liu, J., & O’Connor, B. T. (2025, March 24). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 3.

Discerning Thermal Transition Behavior of Conjugated Polymers through In Situ Optical Characterization of Oriented Films

Schrickx, H. M., Moore, C., Shafe, A. A., Samadani, A., Balar, N., Vu, D., … O’Connor, B. T. (2024, November 8). Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 11.

Exceptional Alignment in a Donor–Acceptor Conjugated Polymer via a Previously Unobserved Liquid Crystal Mesophase

Schrickx, H. M., Kashani, S., Buck, L., Ding, K., Rech, J. J., Flagg, L. Q., … O'Connor, B. T. (2024, April 8). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 4.

Flexible Self‐Powered Organic Photodetector with High Detectivity for Continuous On‐Plant Sensing

Schrickx, H. M., Gyurek, S., Moore, C., Hernández‐Pagán, E., Doherty, C. J., Kudenov, M. W., & O'Connor, B. T. (2024, February 8). Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 2.

Glassy gels toughened by solvent

Wang, M., Xiao, X., Siddika, S., Shamsi, M., Frey, E., Qian, W., … Dickey, M. D. (2024, June 19). Nature, Vol. 6.

Strain alignment of conjugated polymers: Method, microstructure, and applications

Schrickx, H. M., Sen, P., Balar, N., & O’Connor, B. T. (2024, July 1). Cell Reports Physical Science, Vol. 5.

All Electrohydrodynamic Printed Flexible Organic Thin Film Transistors

Ren, P., Song, R., Zhu, Y., O'Connor, B., & Dong, J. (2023, June 21). Advanced Materials Technologies, Vol. 6.

Emergent molecular traits of lettuce and tomato grown under wavelength-selective solar cells

Charles, M., Edwards, B., Ravishankar, E., Calero, J., Henry, R., Rech, J., … Sederoff, H. (2023, February 13). Frontiers in Plant Science, Vol. 14.

Molecular interactions that drive morphological and mechanical stabilities in organic solar cells

Siddika, S., Peng, Z., Balar, N., Dong, X., Zhong, X., You, W., … O’Connor, B. T. (2023, June 22). Joule, Vol. 7, pp. 1593–1608.

Rubber-Toughened Organic Solar Cells: Miscibility–Morphology–Performance Relations

Shafe, A. A., Schrickx, H. M., Ding, K., Ade, H., & O’Connor, B. T. (2023, August 8). ACS Energy Letters, Vol. 8.

Strategic Incorporation of Cleavable Side Chains Improves Thermal Stability of PffBT-T4-Based Polymer Solar Cells

Shanahan, J., Oh, J., Son, S. Y., Siddika, S., Pendleton, D., O’Connor, B. T., & You, W. (2023, November 21). Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 35, pp. 10139–10149.

Stretchable Organic Transistor Based Pressure Sensor Employing a Porous Elastomer Gate Dielectric

Song, R., Ren, P., Liu, Y., Zhu, Y., Dong, J., & O'Connor, B. T. (2023, April 28). Advanced Materials Technologies, Vol. 4.

Cephalopod-inspired snapshot multispectral sensor based on geometric phase lens and stacked organic photodetectors

Altaqui, A., Schrickx, H., Gyurek, S., Sen, P., Escuti, M., O’Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. (2022, July 1). Optical Engineering, Vol. 7, p. 077104.

Curvilinear soft electronics by micromolding of metal nanowires in capillaries

Liu, Y., Zheng, M., Brendan, O. C., Dong, J., & Zhu, Y. (2022, November 16). Science Advances, Vol. 8.

Electrothermally Actuated Semitransparent Shape Memory Polymer Composite with Application as a Wearable Touch Sensor

Booth, R. E., Khanna, C., Schrickx, H. M., Siddika, S., Shafe, A. A., & O’Connor, B. T. (2022, November 16). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 11.

Organic solar powered greenhouse performance optimization and global economic opportunity

Ravishankar, E., Booth, R. E., Hollingsworth, J. A., Ade, H., Sederoff, H., DeCarolis, J. F., & O'Connor, B. T. (2022, January 1). Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 15, pp. 1659–1671.

Silver Nanowire Composite Electrode Enabling Highly Flexible, Robust Organic Photovoltaics

Booth, R. E., Schrickx, H. M., Hanby, G., Liu, Y., Qin, Y., Ade, H., … O'Connor, B. T. (2022, June 4). Solar RRL, Vol. 6.

A molecular interaction–diffusion framework for predicting organic solar cell stability

Ghasemi, M., Balar, N., Peng, Z., Hu, H., Qin, Y., Kim, T., … Ade, H. (2021, January 11). Nature Materials, Vol. 20, pp. 525-+.

Balancing crop production and energy harvesting in organic solar-powered greenhouses

Ravishankar, E., Charles, M., Xiong, Y., Henry, R., Swift, J., Rech, J., … O’Connor, B. T. (2021, March 1). Cell Reports Physical Science, Vol. 3, p. 100381.

Bio-inspired spectropolarimetric sensor based on tandem organic photodetectors and multi-twist liquid crystals

Altaqui, A., Schrickx, H., Sen, P., Li, L., Rech, J., Lee, J.-W., … Kudenov, M. (2021, October 25). Optics Express, Vol. 10, pp. 43953–43969.

Mantis shrimp–inspired organic photodetector for simultaneous hyperspectral and polarimetric imaging

Altaqui, A., Sen, P., Schrickx, H., Rech, J., Lee, J.-W., Escuti, M., … Kudenov, M. (2021, March 3). Science Advances, Vol. 7, p. eabe3196.

Modulation of Morphological, Mechanical, and Photovoltaic Properties of Ternary Organic Photovoltaic Blends for Optimum Operation

Peng, Z., Jiang, K., Qin, Y., Li, M., Balar, N., O'Connor, B. T., … Geng, Y. (2021, January 14). Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 11, p. 2003506.

Organic-based photodetectors for multiband spectral imaging

Altaqui, A., Kolbas, R. M., Escuti, M. J., O’Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. W. (2021, February 17). Applied Optics, Vol. 60, pp. 2314–2323.

Resolving the Molecular Origin of Mechanical Relaxations in Donor–Acceptor Polymer Semiconductors

Balar, N., Rech, J. J., Siddika, S., Song, R., Schrickx, H. M., Sheikh, N., … O'Connor, B. T. (2021, October 8). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 32, p. 2105597.

Thermocleavage of Partial Side Chains in Polythiophenes Offers Appreciable Photovoltaic Efficiency and Significant Morphological Stability

Son, S. Y., Samson, S., Siddika, S., O’Connor, B. T., & You, W. (2021, May 28). Chemistry of Materials, Vol. 33, pp. 4745–4756.

Ultra‐High Alignment of Polymer Semiconductor Blends Enabling Photodetectors with Exceptional Polarization Sensitivity

Schrickx, H. M., Sen, P., Booth, R. E., Altaqui, A., Burleson, J., Rech, J. J., … O'Connor, B. T. (2021, October 7). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 10, p. 2105820.

Achieving High-Resolution Electrohydrodynamic Printing of Nanowires on Elastomeric Substrates through Surface Modification

Ren, P., Liu, Y., Song, R., Brendan, O. C., Dong, J., & Zhu, Y. (2020, December 29). ACS Applied Electronic Materials, Vol. 3, pp. 192–202.

Achieving Net Zero Energy Greenhouses by Integrating Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells

Ravishankar, E., Booth, R. E., Saravitz, C., Sederoff, H., Ade, H. W., & O’Connor, B. T. (2020, January 29). Joule, Vol. 4, pp. 490–506.

Facile Approach to Fabricating Stretchable Organic Transistors with Laser-Patterned Ag Nanowire Electrodes

Song, R., Yao, S., Liu, Y., Wang, H., Dong, J., Zhu, Y., & O’Connor, B. T. (2020, November 2). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 12, pp. 50675–50683.

Optimization of an intrinsic coincident polarimeter and quantitative architectural comparison of different polarimeter techniques

Yang, R., Sen, P., Brendan, O. C., & Kudenov, M. (2020, February 25). Optical Engineering, Vol. 59, p. 024111.

Environmental and economic impacts of solar‐powered integrated greenhouses

Hollingsworth, J. A., Ravishankar, E., O'Connor, B., Johnson, J. X., & DeCarolis, J. F. (2019, August 13). Journal of Industrial Ecology, Vol. 24.

Highly Efficient, Stable, and Ductile Ternary Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells from a Two‐Donor Polymer Blend

Hu, H., Ye, L., Ghasemi, M., Balar, N., Rech, J. J., Stuard, S. J., … Ade, H. (2019, March 18). Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, p. 1808279.

Nanomaterial‐Enabled Flexible and Stretchable Sensing Systems: Processing, Integration, and Applications

Advanced Materials, 32(15), 1902343.

Optical crosstalk and off-axis modeling of an intrinsic coincident polarimeter

Yang, R., Sen, P., O’Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. W. (2019, December 20). Applied Optics, Vol. 59, pp. 156–164.

Sequential Deposition of Organic Films with Eco‐Compatible Solvents Improves Performance and Enables Over 12%‐Efficiency Nonfullerene Solar Cells

Ye, L., Xiong, Y., Chen, Z., Zhang, Q., Fei, Z., Henry, R., … al. (2019, March 15). Advanced Materials, Vol. 31, p. 1808153.

The Importance of Entanglements in Optimizing the Mechanical and Electrical Performance of All-Polymer Solar Cells

Chemistry of Materials, 31(14), 5124–5132.

Atomic Layer Deposition: Conformal Physical Vapor Deposition Assisted by Atomic Layer Deposition and Its Application for Stretchable Conductors (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 22/2018)

Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5(22), 1870109.

Competition between Exceptionally Long‐Range Alkyl Sidechain Ordering and Backbone Ordering in Semiconducting Polymers and Its Impact on Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties

Carpenter, J. H., Ghasemi, M., Gann, E., Angunawela, I., Stuard, S. J., Rech, J. J., … Ade, H. (2018, December 12). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 29.

Conformal Physical Vapor Deposition Assisted by Atomic Layer Deposition and Its Application for Stretchable Conductors

Min, J. H., Chen, Y. A., Chen, I. T., Sun, T., Lee, D. T., Li, C., … Chang, C. H. (2018, October 22). Advanced Materials Interfaces, Vol. 5.

Impact of Substrate Characteristics on Stretchable Polymer Semiconductor Behavior

Sun, T., Song, R., Balar, N., Sen, P., Kline, R. J., & O’Connor, B. T. (2018, December 28). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 11, pp. 3280–3289.

Monolithic intrinsic Coincident polarimeter using organic photovoltaics

Kudenov, M. W., Yang, R., Sen, P., & O'Connor, B. (2018, May 14). POLARIZATION: MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS, AND REMOTE SENSING XIII, Vol. 10655, p. 106550T.

Panchromatic All‐Polymer Photodetector with Tunable Polarization Sensitivity

Sen, P., Yang, R., Rech, J. J., Feng, Y., Ho, C. H. Y., Huang, J., … O'Connor, B. T. (2018, December 10). Advanced Optical Materials, Vol. 7, p. 1801346.

Shear-Enhanced Transfer Printing of Conducting Polymer Thin Films

Sen, P., Xiong, Y., Zhang, Q., Park, S., You, W., Ade, H., … O’Connor, B. T. (2018, August 27). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 10, pp. 31560–31567.

Correlating Crack Onset Strain and Cohesive Fracture Energy in Polymer Semiconductor Films

Balar, N., & O’Connor, B. T. (2017, October 23). Macromolecules, Vol. 50, pp. 8611–8618.

Flexible Inorganic Ferroelectric Thin Films for Nonvolatile Memory Devices

Advanced Functional Materials, 27(21), 1700461.

Intrinsic coincident full-Stokes polarimeter using stacked organic photovoltaics

Yang, R., Sen, P., O’Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. W. (2017, February 16). Applied Optics, Vol. 56, pp. 1768–1774.

Intrinsic coincident full-Stokes polarimeter using stacked organic photovoltaics and architectural comparison of polarimeter techniques

Yang, R., Sen, P., O'Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. W. (2017, August 30). POLARIZATION SCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING VIII, Vol. 10407, p. 1040705.

Morphological considerations of organic electronic films for flexible and stretchable devices

O’Connor, B. T., Awartani, O. M., & Balar, N. (2017, February 1). MRS Bulletin, Vol. 42, pp. 108–114.

Optical modeling of fiber organic photovoltaic structures using a transmission line method

Moshonas, N., Stathopoulos, N. A., O’Connor, B. T., Bedeloglu, A. C., Savaidis, S. P., & Vasiliadis, S. (2017, November 20). Applied Optics, Vol. 56, pp. 9351–9358.

Precise Manipulation of Multilength Scale Morphology and Its Influence on Eco-Friendly Printed All-Polymer Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, 27(33), 1702016.

Role of Polymer Segregation on the Mechanical Behavior of All-Polymer Solar Cell Active Layers

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 9(50), 43886–43892.

Strong polymer molecular weight-dependent material interactions: impact on the formation of the polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunction morphology

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 5(25), 13176–13188.

Temperature controlled interlayer disorder in ultrathin films of α-sexithiophene

Hoffman, B. C., Mcafee, T., Pazoki, S., Apperson, A., O'Connor, B. T., & Dougherty, D. B. (2017, September 8). Thin Solid Films, Vol. 642, pp. 182–187.

A direct correlation of x-ray diffraction orientation distributions to the in-plane stiffness of semi-crystalline organic semiconducting films

Zhao, B., Awartani, O., O'Connor, B., & Zikry, M. A. (2016, May 2). Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 108.

High Performance Organic Solar Cells Processed by Blade Coating in Air from a Benign Food Additive Solution

Chemistry of Materials, 28(20), 7451–7458.

Intrinsic coincident linear polarimetry using stacked organic photovoltaics

Roy, S. G., Awartani, O. M., Sen, P., O’Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. W. (2016, June 21). Optics Express, Vol. 24, p. 14737.

Microstructural behavior and failure mechanisms of organic semicrystalline thin film blends

Zhao, B., Awartani, O., O'Connor, B., & Zikry, M. A. (2016, January 13). Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics, Vol. 54, pp. 896–907.

Performance and Design Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Architecture

Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering Applications, 8(2).

Plastic Deformation of Polymer Blends as a Means to Achieve Stretchable Organic Transistors

Sun, T., Scott, J. I., Wang, M., Kline, R. J., Bazan, G. C., & O'Connor, B. T. (2016, December 12). Advanced Electronic Materials, Vol. 3.

Significantly Increasing the Ductility of High Performance Polymer Semiconductors through Polymer Blending

Scott, J. I., Xue, X., Wang, M., Kline, R. J., Hoffman, B. C., Dougherty, D., … O’Connor, B. T. (2016, May 11). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 8, pp. 14037–14045.

Anisotropic Elastic Modulus of Oriented Regioregular Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Films

Awartani, O. M., Zhao, B., Currie, T., Kline, R. J., Zikry, M. A., & O’Connor, B. T. (2015, December 23). Macromolecules, Vol. 49, pp. 327–333.

Charge transport in highly aligned conjugated polymers (Presentation Recording)

O'Connor, B., Xue, X., & Sun, T. (2015, October 5). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 9568.

Complete intrinsic coincident polarimetry using stacked organic photovoltaics

Roy, S. G., Awartani, O. M., Sen, P., O'Connor, B. T., & Kudenov, M. W. (2015, September 1). Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 9613, pp. 961308–961308-10.

Heat shrink formation of a corrugated thin film thermoelectric generator

Sun, T., Peavey, J. L., Shelby, M. D., Ferguson, S., & O’Connor, B. T. (2015, July 15). Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 103, pp. 674–680.

In‐Plane Alignment in Organic Solar Cells to Probe the Morphological Dependence of Charge Recombination

Awartani, O., Kudenov, M. W., Kline, R. J., & O'Connor, B. T. (2015, January 21). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 25, pp. 1296–1303.

Oriented Liquid Crystalline Polymer Semiconductor Films with Large Ordered Domains

Xue, X., Chandler, G., Zhang, X., Kline, R. J., Fei, Z., Heeney, M., … O’Connor, B. T. (2015, November 10). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 7, pp. 26726–26734.

Performance Comparison of a Bulk Thermoelectric Cooler With a Hybrid Device Architecture

Antonik, M., Ferguson, S. M., & O’Connor, B. T. (2015, August 2). International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 2015, Vol 2b.

Performance analysis of a thermoelectric cooler with a corrugated architecture

Owoyele, O., Ferguson, S., & O’Connor, B. T. (2015, March 13). Applied Energy, Vol. 147, pp. 184–191.

Tuning Open-Circuit Voltage in Organic Solar Cells with Molecular Orientation

Kitchen, B., Awartani, O., Kline, R. J., McAfee, T., Ade, H., & O’Connor, B. T. (2015, June 1). ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, Vol. 7, pp. 13208–13216.

Morphological Origin of Charge Transport Anisotropy in Aligned Polythiophene Thin Films

O'Connor, B. T., Reid, O. G., Zhang, X., Kline, R. J., Richter, L. J., Gundlach, D. J., … Rumbles, G. (2014, February 18). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 24, pp. 3422–3431.

Organic photovoltaic cells with controlled polarization sensitivity

Awartani, O., Kudenov, M. W., & O'Connor, B. T. (2014, March 3). Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 104, p. 093306.

Charge Transport in Highly Face-On Poly(3-hexylthiophene) Films

Gargi, D., Kline, R. J., DeLongchamp, D. M., Fischer, D. A., Toney, M. F., & O’Connor, B. T. (2013, August 2). The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 117, pp. 17421–17428.

Correlating Stiffness, Ductility, and Morphology of Polymer:Fullerene Films for Solar Cell Applications

Awartani, O., Lemanski, B. I., Ro, H. W., Richter, L. J., DeLongchamp, D. M., & O'Connor, B. T. (2012, November 1). Advanced Energy Materials, Vol. 3, pp. 399–406.

Poly(3-hexylthiophene) and [6,6]-Phenyl-C₆₁-butyric Acid Methyl Ester Mixing in Organic Solar Cells

Ro, H. W., Akgun, B., O’Connor, B. T., Hammond, M., Kline, R. J., Snyder, C. R., … DeLongchamp, D. M. (2012, August 2). Macromolecules, Vol. 45, pp. 6587–6599.

Anisotropic Structure and Charge Transport in Highly Strain‐Aligned Regioregular Poly(3‐hexylthiophene)

O'Connor, B., Kline, R. J., Conrad, B. R., Richter, L. J., Gundlach, D., Toney, M. F., & DeLongchamp, D. M. (2011, August 16). Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 21, pp. 3697–3705.

Correlations between Mechanical and Electrical Properties of Polythiophenes

ACS Nano, 4(12), 7538–7544.

High-efficiency broadband solar cell architectures based on arrays of volumetrically distributed narrowband photovoltaic fibers

Optics Express, 18(S3), A432.

Organic photodetector with spectral response tunable across the visible spectrum by means of internal optical microcavity

Organic Electronics, 10(6), 1152–1157.