New functional polymers for sensors, smart materials and solar cells by Lobez Comeras, Jose Miguel

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Antibacterial activity of carbon nanomaterials by Liu, Shaobin

“…Carbon nanomaterials (CNMs), including graphene based materials, carbon nanotubes and fullerene, have been intensively studied in recent years because of their unique properties and various potential applications. …”
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Fullerenol C₆₀(OH)₃₆ Protects the Antioxidant Enzymes in Human Erythrocytes against Oxidative Damage Induced by High-Energy Electrons by Jacek Grebowski, Paulina Kazmierska-Grebowska, Natalia Cichon, Anna Konarska, Marian Wolszczak, Grzegorz Litwinienko

“…Water-soluble derivatives of fullerene exhibit antiradical and antioxidant properties, and these compounds are regarded as potential candidates for radioprotectors. …”
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A new look at imines and their mixture with PC71BM for organic, flexible photovoltaics by Krzysztof A. Bogdanowicz, Sebastian Lalik, Paulina Ratajczyk, Andrzej Katrusiak, Piotr Krysiak, Agnieszka I. Pawłowska, Monika Marzec, Agnieszka Iwan

“…The mechanical studies focused on the stress at break and elongation showed superior behaviour compared to fullerene derivative. High pressure systematically reduces the band gap energy, E g , from 1.68 eV at 0.16 GPa to 1.51 eV at 2.69 GPa for PC71BM, from 1.77 eV at 0.1 MPa to 1.53 eV at 4.15 GPa for SC3, and from 1.99 eV at 0.11 GPa to 1.8 eV at 3.10 GPa for SC13, as determined by the UV–Vis absorbance measurements in a diamond-anvil cell. …”
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Ultrafast spectroscopic characterization and modelling of hybrid plasmonic organic photovoltaic devices by Wu, Bo

“…Meanwhile, although the exciton-surface plasmon interaction is present in polymer only films, it becomes much weaker and negligible in polymer:fullerene blend, indicating exciton dynamics are not strongly affected by the surface plasmon in device. …”
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Engineering of thienothiophene-based conjugated molecules for the development of efficient P-type semiconductor by Abe, Yuichiro

“…However, when it was mixed together with the fullerene acceptor and incorporated into OPV devices, no significant increase in PCE was obtained. …”
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Novel Rigidochromic and Anti-Kasha Dual Emission Fluorophores Based on D-π-A Dyads as the Promising Materials for Potential Applications Ranging from Optoelectronics and Optical Se... by Svetlana A. Lermontova, Maxim V. Arsenyev, Anton V. Cherkasov, Georgy K. Fukin, Andrey V. Afanasyev, Andrey V. Yudintsev, Ilya S. Grigoryev, Elena Yu. Ladilina, Tatyana S. Lyubova, Natalia Yu. Shilyagina, Irina V. Balalaeva, Larisa G. Klapshina, Alexandr V. Piskunov

“…We show that among three new pigments, PerTCNE has significant potential as the medium-bandgap non-fullerene electron acceptor. Such materials are now highly demanded for indoor low-power electronics and portable devices for the Internet-of-Things. …”
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Nano-Enabled Antivirals for Overcoming Antibody Escaped Mutations Based SARS-CoV-2 Waves by Aminur Rahman, Kumar Jyotirmoy Roy, Gautam Kumar Deb, Taehyeong Ha, Saifur Rahman, Mst. Khudishta Aktar, Md. Isahak Ali, Md. Abdul Kafi, Jeong-Woo Choi

“…As proof of this concept, we highlight applications of several nanomaterials, such as metal and metal oxide nanoparticles, carbon-based nanoparticles, carbon nanotubes, fullerene, carbon dots, quantum dots, polymeric nanoparticles, lipid-based, polymer-based, lipid–polymer hybrid-based, surface-modified nanoparticles that have already been employed to control viral infections. …”
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A Path Integral Molecular Dynamics Simulation of a Harpoon-Type Redox Reaction in a Helium Nanodroplet by Alvaro Castillo-García, Andreas W. Hauser, María Pilar de Lara-Castells, Pablo Villarreal

“…Our findings confirm earlier, static predictions of a rotational motion of the Cs<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> dimer upon reacting with the fullerene, involving a substantial displacement of helium. …”
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Surfactant Proteins A/D–CD14 on Alveolar Macrophages Is a Common Pathway Associated With Phagocytosis of Nanomaterials and Cytokine Production by Qiqi Wang, Qiqi Wang, Qiong Wang, Ziyue Zhao, Jingbo Fan, Linghan Qin, David B. Alexander, Hiroyuki Tsuda, Dahai Zhao, Jiegou Xu, Jiegou Xu

“…For these purposes, four ENMs, MWCNT-7, TiO2, SiO2, and fullerene C60, with different shapes, sizes, chemical compositions, and surface reactivities, were chosen for this study. …”
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Ultrafast charge transfer at GaAs/P3HT as a model system for hybrid organic-inorganic heterointerfaces by Majid Panahandeh Fard

“…These promising devices have been conventionally constructed by blending an organic conjugated polymer donor and a fullerene acceptor. The polymer solar cells have demonstrated a few advantages over their inorganic counterparts: simple and easy processability, high throughput fabrication, and compatibility with low-temperature processes. …”
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Molecular beam epitaxy : from research to mass production / by Mohamed Henini

Simulation and Investigation of 26% Efficient and Robust Inverted Planar Perovskite Solar Cells Based on GA_0.2FA_0.78SnI₃-1%EDAI₂ Films by Hussein Sabbah, Jack Arayro, Rabih Mezher

“…The inverted structure is composed of PEDOT:PSS (as hole transport layer—HTL)/GA<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>0.2</mn></mrow></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>FA<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mrow><mn>0.78</mn></mrow></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>SnI<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>3</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula>-1% EDAI<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><msub><mrow></mrow><mn>2</mn></msub></semantics></math></inline-formula> (as perovskite absorber layer)/C60-fullerene (as electron transport layer—ETL). Previous experimental studies showed that unlike conventional tin-based perovskite solar cells (PSC), the present hybrid tin-based PSC passes all harsh standard tests and generates a power conversion efficiency of only <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>8.3</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>. …”
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Classification of iron oxide aerosols by a single particle soot photometer using supervised machine learning by K. D. Lamb, K. D. Lamb

“…Laboratory samples of different aerosols that incandesce in the SP2 (fullerene soot, mineral dust, volcanic ash, coal fly ash, <span class="inline-formula">Fe₂O₃</span>, and <span class="inline-formula">Fe₃O₄</span>) were used to train a random forest algorithm. …”
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Energy transfer processes in organic and inorganic materials for photovoltaic devices by Menelaou, C

“…Photovoltaic devices incorporating polymer:fullerene blends are found to yield devices with power conversion efficiencies of up to 6%, with the highest PCE observed in devices which form films exhibiting a very low degree of crystallinity in X-ray diffaction patterns and a corresponding low surface roughness in thin films.…”

Electrochemical Studies on Acrylonitrile Grafted Polystyrene and Carbon Nanomaterials as Modified Electrodes by Radhi, Muhammed Mizher

“…The modified glassy carbon electrodes (GCE) by microcrystals of fullerene C60 (C60/GCE), activated carbon (AC/GCE) and carbon nanotubes (CNT/GCE) have been studied extensively mediating some selected heavy metal compounds such as Mn2+, Hg2+ and Cd2+ in aqueous electrolyte. …”
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Direct C-H arylation as a tool for synthesis of conjugated polymers : from 1D linear polymers to 2D/3D porous networks by Bohra, Hassan

“…We also present the device performances of these polymers in both thin-film field-effect transistors and organic solar cells using BDTD-based polymers as the electron donors and fullerene derivatives as the electron acceptors. …”
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Synthetic inorganic chemistry by Clancy, G, Clancy, Gerald Patrick

“…The second part describes the preparation and characterisation of inorganic fullerene (IF)-related materials.</p> <p><strong>Chapter 1</strong> reviews the chemistry of dialkyl- and diaryl-phosphino substituted cyclopentadienyl complexes of the transition metals.…”