Soot reference materials for instrument calibration and intercomparisons: a workshop summary with recommendations by D. Baumgardner, O. Popovicheva, J. Allan, V. Bernardoni, J. Cao, F. Cavalli, J. Cozic, E. Diapouli, K. Eleftheriadis, P. J. Genberg, C. Gonzalez, M. Gysel, A. John, T. W. Kirchstetter, T. A. J. Kuhlbusch, M. Laborde, D. Lack, T. Müller, R. Niessner, A. Petzold, A. Piazzalunga, J. P. Putaud, J. Schwarz, P. Sheridan, R. Subramanian, E. Swietlicki, G. Valli, R. Vecchi, M. Viana

“…The community of users of the single-particle soot-photometer (SP2), an instrument using laser-induced incandescence, identified a suitable SRM, fullerene soot, but users of instruments that measure light absorption by soot collected on filters did not. …”
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Environmentally friendly cathode interlayer modification on edible bio‐acids with enhanced electron extraction and improved power conversion efficiency by Junjie Wen, Rui Lin, Yibing Wu, Hong Zhang, Hui Zhou, Zheng Liu, Yu Xie, Dapeng Ye, Xinhua Ouyang

“…In this research, three edible bio‐acids, ursolic acid, citric acid, and malic acid, are employed to modify the PDIN CIL of the organic solar cells (OSCs) with non‐fullerene acceptors. Among these edible bio‐acid modifiers, ursolic acid shows its excellent performance in improving interfacial contact and suppressing charge recombination. …”
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Quantum Chemical Modelling of the Scandium Sub-Group Metal Endofullerenes by Dmitrii A. Machnev, Igor V. Nechaev, Alexander V. Vvedenskii, Oleg A. Kozaderov

“…They correspond to the positions of the metal atoms inside the fullerene cage. The theoretical limit for the number of metal atoms at which the endofullerene structure remains stable is six atoms for scandium, four for yttrium, and three for lanthanum. …”
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Impact of heavy metal cations on deposition and release of clay colloids in saturated porous media by Kaiyu Shi, Xingrun Wang, Xianxian Chu, Tiantian Li, Yaru Yin, Chongyang Shen

“…This study conducted saturated column experiments to systematically examine influence of multivalent heavy metal cations on transport of natural clay colloids and fullerene nC60 nanoparticles in glass bead porous media. …”
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Electroactive Nanoporous Metal Oxides and Chalcogenides by Chemical Design by Hendon, Christopher H, Butler, Keith T., Ganose, Alex M., Román-Leshkov, Yuriy, Scanlon, David O., Ozin, Geoffrey A., Walsh, Aron

“…Depending on the choice of metal and anion their properties can be tuned from insulators to semiconductors to metals with additional modification achieved through doping, solid solutions, and inclusion (with fullerene, quantum dots, and hole transport materials). …”
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First principles studies of multidimensional hybrid materials by Yin, Jun

“…Within this framework, we studied the structural, vibrational, electronic and photophysical properties of model material systems with different dimensionality and functions, including polymer/fullerene blends, polymer/Ill-V heterointerfaces, organic-inorganic perovskites for photovoltaic applications, and metallic/dielectric topological insulators for active plasmonics. …”
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Intraparticle Molecular Orbital Engineering of Semiconducting Polymer Nanoparticles as Amplified Theranostics for In Vivo Photoacoustic Imaging and Photothermal Therapy by Lyu, Yan, Fang, Yuan, Miao, Qingqing, Zhen, Xu, Ding, Dan, Pu, Kanyi

“…The theranostic SPNs have a binary optical component nanostructure, wherein a near-infrared absorbing semiconducting polymer and an ultrasmall carbon dot (fullerene) interact with each other to induce photoinduced electron transfer upon light irradiation. …”
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Structural and electronic properties of 2,2′,6,6′-tetraphenyl-dipyranylidene and its use as a hole-collecting interfacial layer in organic solar cells by Courté, Marc Patrick, Alaaeddine, M., Barth, V., Tortech, L., Fichou, Denis

“…The accumulation of positive charges at the anodic interface considerably limits the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells based on polymer/fullerene bulk heterojunctions (BHJs). Interfacial layers (IFLs) such as PEDOT:PSS improve charge injection but have no effect on the unbalanced electron/hole transport across the BHJ. …”
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Controlled current matching in small molecule organic tandem solar cells using doped spacer layers by Schueppel, R, Timmreck, R, Allinger, N, Mueller, T, Furno, M, Uhrich, C, Leo, K, Riede, M

“…This is demonstrated for an indium tin oxide (ITO)/pin/pii/Al structure with thin intrinsic absorbing layers consisting of zinc-phthalocyanine and fullerene C60 and a metal-free lossless recombination contact between the subcells. …”

Electron selective contact in perovskite solar cells by Wojciechowski, K

“…</p> <p>Chapters 5, 6 and 7, report the interface modification of an n-type contact, resulting in a substantially improved device operation and suppression of hysteresis phenomenon which is characteristic of perovskite photovoltaics. Fullerene-based materials have been found to make excellent electronic contact with halide perovskite materials, and are shown to be far superior to commonly used metal oxides. …”

Tetrapropyl-tetraphenyl-diindenoperylene derivative as a green absorber for high-voltage stable organic solar cells by Meiss, J, Hermenau, M, Tress, W, Schuenemann, C, Selzer, F, Hummert, M, Alex, J, Lackner, G, Leo, K, Riede, M

“…We present small molecule organic solar cells (SMOSC) based on flat heterojunctions (FHJ) of the alternative green donor 2,3,10,11-tetrapropyl-1,4, 9,12-tetraphenyl-diindeno[1,2,3-cd:1′,2′,3′-lm]perylene (P4-Ph4-DIP) and the fullerene C₆₀. P4-Ph4-DIP absorbs in the green spectral range and thus fills the spectral gap that standard absorber materials (zinc or copper phthalocyanine for red and C₆₀ for blue absorption) leave, thus allowing broad coverage of the sun spectrum, which is of major interest for tandem devices. …”

Nanomaterials for Solar Cell Applications / by Thomas, Sabu, editor 391529, Sakho, El Hadji Mamour, editor 649095, Kalarikkal, Nandakumar, editor 628789, Oluwafemi, Samuel Oluwatobi, editor 649096, Wu, Jihuai, editor 649097, ScienceDirect (Online service) 7722

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Impact of innovative nanoadditives on biodigesters microbiome by Fatma Y. Hassaneen, Rehab Z. Abdallah, Muhammed S. Abdallah, Nashaat Ahmed, Shereen M. M. Abd Elaziz, Mohamed A. El‐Mokhtar, Mohamed S. Badary, Rania Siam, Nageh K. Allam

“…Three different NPs (zinc ferrite, zinc ferrite with 10% carbon nanotubes and zinc ferrite with 10% C76 fullerene) were separately supplemented to the biodigesters at the beginning of the incubation period. …”
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Thermal and optical properties of P3HT:PC70BM:ZnO nanoparticles composite films by B. Hajduk, P. Jarka, H. Bednarski, M. Godzierz, T. Tański, M. Staszuk, P. Nitschke, B. Jarząbek, M. Fijalkowski, K. Mazik

“…The structural properties of the layers of: polymers, mixtures of polymers with fullerenes and their composites with ZnO-NPs were investigated using X-ray diffraction. …”
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Compatible Solution‐Processed Interface Materials for Improved Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells by Zhuo Xu, Jose Prince Madalaimuthu, Josef Bernd Slowik, Rico Meitzner, Aman Anand, Shahidul Alam, Héctor Corte, Steffi Stumpf, Ulrich S. Schubert, Harald Hoppe

“…Furthermore, in both, fullerene and nonfullerene systems, the efficiency of the devices employing the blend ETL as compared to the single ETLs show some performance improvement. …”
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Development of an improved two-sphere integration technique for quantifying black carbon concentrations in the atmosphere and seasonal snow by X. Wang, X. Wang, X. Zhang, W. Di

“…The TSI technique can be calibrated using a series of 15 filter samples of standard fullerene soot. This technique quantifies the mass of BC by separating the spectrally resolved total light absorption into BC and non-BC fractions. …”
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Investigation of Polymer/Si Thin Film Tandem Solar Cell Using TCAD Numerical Simulation by Mohamed Okil, Ahmed Shaker, Mostafa M. Salah, Tarek M. Abdolkader, Ibrahim S. Ahmed

“…The photoactive layer of the top sub cell is a blend of PDTBTBz-2F as a polymer donor and PC₇₁BM as a fullerene acceptor. Initially, a calibration of the two sub cells is carried out against experimental studies, providing a power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 9.88% for the top sub cell and 14.26% for the bottom sub cell. …”
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Electrosynthesis of buckyballs with fused-ring systems from PCBM and its analogue by Wei-Feng Wang, Kai-Qing Liu, Chuang Niu, Yun-Shu Wang, Yang-Rong Yao, Zheng-Chun Yin, Muqing Chen, Shi-Qi Ye, Shangfeng Yang, Guan-Wu Wang

“…Abstract [6,6]-Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM), a star molecule in the fullerene field, has found wide applications in materials science. …”
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Nano-Polyplexes Mediated Transfection of Runx2-shRNA Mitigates the Osteodifferentiation of Human Valvular Interstitial Cells by Geanina Voicu, Daniela Rebleanu, Cristina Ana Constantinescu, Elena Valeria Fuior, Letitia Ciortan, Ionel Droc, Cristina Mariana Uritu, Mariana Pinteala, Ileana Manduteanu, Maya Simionescu, Manuela Calin

“…We report here the potential of fullerene (C60)-polyethyleneimine (PEI)/short hairpin (sh)RNA-Runx2 nano-polyplexes to efficiently down-regulate Runx2 mRNA and protein expression leading subsequently to a significant reduction in the expression of osteogenic proteins (i.e., ALP, BSP, OSP and BMP4) in osteoblast-committed VIC. …”
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Doping with Niobium Nanoparticles as an Approach to Increase the Power Conversion Efficiency of P3HT:PCBM Polymer Solar Cells by Elmoiz Merghni Mkawi, Yas Al-Hadeethi, Bassim Arkook, Elena Bekyarova

“…Metal additive processing in polymer: fullerene bulk heterojunction systems is recognized as a viable way for improving polymer photovoltage performance. …”
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