Harald Ade

A materials physics perspective on structure–processing–function relations in blends of organic semiconductors

Nature Reviews Materials.

Additive-free molecular acceptor organic solar cells processed from a biorenewable solvent approaching 15% efficiency

Du, Z., Luong, H. M., Sabury, S., Therdkatanyuphong, P., Chae, S., Welton, C., … Nguyen, T.-Q. (2023, October 5). MATERIALS HORIZONS, Vol. 10.

Auxiliary sequential deposition enables 19%-efficiency organic solar cells processed from halogen-free solvents

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1).

Control of Host-Matrix Morphology Enables Efficient Deep-Blue Organic Light-Emitting Devices

Zhao, H., Kim, J., Ding, K., Jung, M., Li, Y., Ade, H., … Forrest, S. R. (2023, February 9). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 2.

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

FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE, 14.

In-Situ Ellipsometry for the Determination of Thermal Transitions and Relaxations in Organic Photovoltaic Materials

CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS, 35(18), 7406–7421.

Introducing a Phenyl End Group in the Inner Side Chains of A-DA'D-A Acceptors Enables High-Efficiency Organic Solar Cells Processed with Nonhalogenated Solvent

Wu, X., Jiang, X., Li, X., Zhang, J., Ding, K., Zhuo, H., … Li, Y. (2023, October 27). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 10.

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

JOULE, 7(7), 1593–1608.

Near-infrared absorbing acceptor with suppressed triplet exciton generation enabling high performance tandem organic solar cells

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1).

Oligo(ethylene glycol) Side Chain Architecture Enables Alcohol-Processable Conjugated Polymers for Organic Solar Cells

MACROMOLECULES, 56(5), 2092–2103.

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

Al Shafe, A., Schrickx, H. M., Ding, K., Ade, H., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2023, August 8). ACS ENERGY LETTERS, Vol. 8.

Study of Glass Formation and Crystallization Kinetics in a 2D Metal Halide Perovskite Using Ultrafast Calorimetry

Singh, A., Kim, Y., Henry, R., Ade, H., & Mitzi, D. B. (2023, August 8). JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, Vol. 8.

Suppressing pre-aggregation to increase polymer solar cell ink shelf life

Wang, Z., Peng, Z., Balar, N., & Ade, H. (2023, November 2). JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A.

Synergistic effect of benzoselenadiazole core and alkoxy side chain substitution on the photovoltaic performance of non-fullerene acceptors

Ng, H. M., Kwok, C. H., Qi, Z., Wang, Z., Chen, L., Liu, W., … Yu, H. (2023, October 14). JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, Vol. 10.

Unveiling re-entrant phase behavior and crystalline-amorphous interactions in semi-conducting polymer:small molecule blends

Peng, Z., & Ade, H. (2023, April 24). MATERIALS HORIZONS, Vol. 4.

16.52% Efficiency All-Polymer Solar Cells with High Tolerance of the Photoactive Layer Thickness

Zhang, W., Sun, C., Angunawela, I., Meng, L., Qin, S., Zhou, L., … Li, Y. (2022, April 17). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 4.

A Benzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']Difuran Based Donor Polymer Achieving High-Performance (>17%) Single-Junction Organic Solar Cells with a Fill Factor of 80.4%

Yi, J., Pan, M., Chen, L., Chen, Y., Angunawela, I. C., Luo, S., … Yan, H. (2022, July 19). ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, Vol. 7.

A Top-Down Strategy to Engineer ActiveLayer Morphology for Highly Efficient and Stable All-Polymer Solar Cells

Fu, H., Peng, Z., Fan, Q., Lin, F. R., Qi, F., Ran, Y., … Jen, A. K.-Y. (2022, July 15). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 7.

Achieving 19% Power Conversion Efficiency in Planar-Mixed Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Using a Pseudosymmetric Electron Acceptor

Gao, W., Qi, F., Peng, Z., Lin, F. R., Jiang, K., Zhong, C., … Jen, A. K.-Y. (2022, July 11). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 7.

Beyond energy balance in agrivoltaic food production: Emergent crop traits from wavelength-selective solar cells

Charles, M., Edwards, B., Ravishankar, E., Calero, J., Henry, R., Rech, J., … Sederoff, H. (2022, March 13).

Conjugated polymers with controllable interfacial order and energetics enable tunable heterojunctions in organic and colloidal quantum dot photovoltaics

Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 10(4), 1788–1801.

Importance of Electric-Field-Independent Mobilities in Thick-Film Organic Solar Cells

Ho, C. H. Y., Pei, Y., Qin, Y., Zhang, C., Peng, Z., Angunawela, I., … So, F. (2022, October 11). ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, Vol. 10.

Low Voltage-Loss Organic Solar Cells Light the Way for Efficient Semitransparent Photovoltaics

Luginbuhl, B. R., Ko, S.-J., Ran, N. A., Hu, H., Becwar, S. M., Karki, A., … Nguyen, T.-Q. (2022, March 16). SOLAR RRL, Vol. 3.

Optimizing spectral and morphological match of nonfullerene acceptors toward efficient indoor organic photovoltaics with enhanced light source adaptability

NANO ENERGY, 98.

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., & Brendan T. O'Connor. (2022, March 10). ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Vol. 15.

Relating reorganization energies, exciton diffusion length and non-radiative recombination to the room temperature UV-vis absorption spectra of NF-SMA

Kashani, S., Wang, Z., Risko, C., & Ade, H. (2022, December 9). MATERIALS HORIZONS, Vol. 12.

Revealing aggregation of non-fullerene acceptors in intermixed phase by ultraviolet-visible absorption spectroscopy

CELL REPORTS PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 3(7).

Silver Nanowire Composite Electrode Enabling Highly Flexible, Robust Organic Photovoltaics

Booth, R. E., Schrickx, H. M., Hanby, G., Liu, Y., Qin, Y., Ade, H., … Brendan T. O'Connor. (2022, June 15). SOLAR RRL, Vol. 6.

Small-Molecule Acceptor with Unsymmetric Substituents and Fused Rings for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with Enhanced Mobility and Reduced Energy Losses

Li, Z., Kong, X., Chen, Z., Angunawela, I., Zhu, H., Li, X., … Li, Y. (2022, November 9). ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES, Vol. 11.

Solid additive tuning of polymer blend morphology enables non-halogenated-solvent all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of over 17%

Hu, K., Zhu, C., Ding, K., Qin, S., Lai, W., Du, J., … Li, Y. (2022, August 12). ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, Vol. 8.

Suppressed recombination loss in organic photovoltaics adopting a planar-mixed heterojunction architecture

NATURE ENERGY, 7(11), 1076–1086.

Ultrathin P(NDI2OD-T2) Films with High Electron Mobility in Both Bottom-Gate and Top-Gate Transistors

Steckmann, T., Angunawela, I., Kashani, S., Zhu, Y., Nahid, M. M., Ade, H., & Gadisa, A. (2022, March 2). ADVANCED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, Vol. 3.

A Chlorinated Donor Polymer Achieving High-Performance Organic Solar Cells with a Wide Range of Polymer Molecular Weight

Zeng, A., Ma, X., Pan, M., Chen, Y., Ma, R., Zhao, H., … Yan, H. (2021, June 16). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Vol. 6.

A Difluoro-Monobromo End Group Enables High-Performance Polymer Acceptor and Efficient All-Polymer Solar Cells Processable with Green Solvent under Ambient Condition

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 31(25).

A History and Perspective of Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Organic Solar Cells

[Review of ]. ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 11(15).

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

NATURE MATERIALS, 20(4), 525-+.

Alkyl-Chain Branching of Non-Fullerene Acceptors Flanking Conjugated Side Groups toward Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Zhang, J., Bai, F., Angunawela, I., Xu, X., Luo, S., Li, C., … Yan, H. (2021, October 29). ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, Vol. 10.

Asymmetric Alkoxy and Alkyl Substitution on Nonfullerene Acceptors Enabling High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 11(3).

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

CELL REPORTS PHYSICAL SCIENCE, 2(3).

Baseplate Temperature-Dependent Vertical Composition Gradient in Pseudo-Bilayer Films for Printing Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells

Zheng, Y., Sun, R., Zhang, M., Chen, Z., Peng, Z., Wu, Q., … Min, J. (2021, October 17). ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, Vol. 10.

Carboxylate substituted pyrazine: A simple and low-cost building block for novel wide bandgap polymer donor enables 15.3% efficiency in organic solar cells

NANO ENERGY, 82.

Designing Simple Conjugated Polymers for Scalable and Efficient Organic Solar Cells

Rech, J. J., Neu, J., Qin, Y., Samson, S., Shanahan, J., Josey, R. F., III, … You, W. (2021, June 10). CHEMSUSCHEM, Vol. 6.

Effect of Palladium-Tetrakis(Triphenylphosphine) Catalyst Traces on Charge Recombination and Extraction in Non-Fullerene-based Organic Solar Cells

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 31(15).

Functionalization of Benzotriazole-Based Conjugated Polymers for Solar Cells: Heteroatom vs Substituents

ACS APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS, 3(1), 30–41.

High Miscibility Compatible with Ordered Molecular Packing Enables an Excellent Efficiency of 16.2% in All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells

Zhang, L., Zhu, X., Deng, D., Wang, Z., Zhang, Z., Li, Y., … Wei, Z. (2021, December 13). ADVANCED MATERIALS, Vol. 12.

High performance tandem organic solar cells via a strongly infrared-absorbing narrow bandgap acceptor

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12(1).

Insights into Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Processed from Green Solvent

Du, Z., Mainville, M., Vollbrecht, J., Dixon, A. L., Schopp, N., Schrock, M., … Nguyen, T.-Q. (2021, June 3). SOLAR RRL, Vol. 5.

Introducing Low-Cost Pyrazine Unit into Terpolymer Enables High-Performance Polymer Solar Cells with Efficiency of 18.23%

Zhou, L., Meng, L., Zhang, J., Zhu, C., Qin, S., Angunawela, I., … Li, Y. (2021, November 8). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Vol. 11.

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

ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 11(8).

Non-fullerene acceptor organic photovoltaics with intrinsic operational lifetimes over 30 years

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12(1).

Optically Probing Field-Dependent Charge Dynamics in Non-Fullerene Organic Photovoltaics with Small Interfacial Energy Offsets

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY C, 125(3), 1714–1722.

Optimization of active layer morphology by small-molecule donor design enables over 15% efficiency in small-molecule organic solar cells

An, C., Qin, Y., Zhang, T., Lv, Q., Qin, J., Zhang, S., … Hou, J. (2021, April 28). JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY A, Vol. 4.

Optimized Active Layer Morphologies via Ternary Copolymerization of Polymer Donors for 17.6 % Efficiency Organic Solar cells with Enhanced Fill Factor

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 60(5), 2322–2329.

Orientational Ordering within Semiconducting Polymer Fibrils

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 31(28).

Polymerized small molecular acceptor based all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 16.16% via tuning polymer blend morphology by molecular design

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12(1).

Pseudo-bilayer architecture enables high-performance organic solar cells with enhanced exciton diffusion length

NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 12(1).

Reducing Energy Disorder of Hole Transport Layer by Charge Transfer Complex for High Performance p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells

ADVANCED MATERIALS, 33(13).

Regio-Regular Polymer Acceptors Enabled by Determined Fluorination on End Groups for All-Polymer Solar Cells with 15.2 % Efficiency

ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION, 60(18), 10137–10146.

Relationship between charge transfer state electroluminescence and the degradation of organic photovoltaics

APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS, 118(6).

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., … Brendan T. O'Connor. (2021, October 8). ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, Vol. 32.

Semi-paracrystallinity in semi-conducting polymers

Marina, S., Gutierrez-Fernandez, E., Gutierrez, J., Gobbi, M., Ramos, N., Solano, E., … Martin, J. (2021, December 15). MATERIALS HORIZONS, Vol. 12.

Silicon Phthalocyanines for n-Type Organic Thin-Film Transistors: Development of Structure-Property Relationships

ACS APPLIED ELECTRONIC MATERIALS, 3(1), 325–336.

Timescales of excited state relaxation in alpha-RuCl3 observed by time-resolved two-photon photoemission spectroscopy

PHYSICAL REVIEW B, 103(24).

Understanding, quantifying, and controlling the molecular ordering of semiconducting polymers: from novices to experts and amorphous to perfect crystals

Peng, Z., Ye, L., & Ade, H. (2021, December 1). MATERIALS HORIZONS, Vol. 12.

Upper and Apparent Lower Critical Solution Temperature Branches in the Phase Diagram of Polymer:Small Molecule Semiconducting Systems

JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS, 12(44), 10845–10853.

3,4-Dicyanothiophene-a Versatile Building Block for Efficient Nonfullerene Polymer Solar Cells

ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 10(12).

A 3D nonfullerene electron acceptor with a 9,9 ' -bicarbazole backbone for high -efficiency organic solar cells

ORGANIC ELECTRONICS, 84.

Achieving Net Zero Energy Greenhouses by Integrating Semitransparent Organic Solar Cells

JOULE, 4(2), 490–506.

Asymmetrically noncovalently fused-ring acceptor for high-efficiency organic solar cells with reduced voltage loss and excellent thermal stability

NANO ENERGY, 74.

Balanced Charge Transport Optimizes Industry-Relevant Ternary Polymer Solar Cells

SOLAR RRL, 4(11).

Balanced Charge Transport Optimizes Industry‐Relevant Ternary Polymer Solar Cells

Solar RRL, 4(11), 2070111.

Color-neutral, semitransparent organic photovoltaics for power window applications

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 117(35), 21147–21154.

Critical Role of Polymer Aggregation and Miscibility in Nonfullerene-Based Organic Photovoltaics

ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS, 10(8).

Effect of main and side chain chlorination on the photovoltaic properties of benzodithiophene-alt-benzotriazole polymers

JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C, 8(43), 15426–15435.

Effect of the chlorine substitution position of the end-group on intermolecular interactions and photovoltaic performance of small molecule acceptors

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE, 13(12), 5028–5038.

Effects of Short-Axis Alkoxy Substituents on Molecular Self-Assembly and Photovoltaic Performance of Indacenodithiophene-Based Acceptors

ADVANCED FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS, 30(3).

Efficient Energy Funneling in Quasi-2D Perovskites: From Light Emission to Lasing

ADVANCED MATERIALS, 32(16).