Quantum mechanical spin dynamics of a molecular magnetoreceptor by Lindoy, LP, Fay, TP, Manolopoulos, DE

“…The classic example is a carotenoid-porphyrin-fullerene (C•+PF•−) radical pair that has been shown to provide a “proof-of-principle” for the operation of a chemical compass [K. …”

Ionic Push–Pull Polythiophenes: A Further Step towards Eco-Friendly BHJ Organic Solar Cells by Martina Marinelli, Massimiliano Lanzi, Filippo Pierini, Yasamin Ziai, Alberto Zanelli, Debora Quadretti, Francesca Di Maria, Elisabetta Salatelli

“…BHJ solar cells were obtained from halogen-free solvents (i.e., ethanol and/or anisole) by blending the synthesized ionic push–pull polymers with a serinol-fullerene derivative or an ionic homopolymer acting as electron-acceptor (EA) or electron-donor (ED) counterparts, respectively. …”
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Tungsten Disulfide Inorganic Nanotubes Functionalized by PTFE for Friction Application by Tzuriel Levin, Yifat Harel, Jean-Paul Lellouche, Alexey Moshkovich, Igor Lapsker, Alex Laikhtman, Lev Rapoport

“…Inorganic nanotubes (INTs) and fullerene-like nanoparticles (NPs) of WS₂/MoS₂ penetrate and exfoliate at the contact interface and facilitate tribofilm formation. …”
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Organic materials based on thiophene and benzothiadiazole for organic solar cells. Computational investigations by Bouachrine M., Kacimi R., Chemek M., Azaid A., Bennani M., Beijit L.

“…Thus, the studied chemical structures are blended with acceptor compounds such as fullerene and PCBM derivatives in the bulk-heterojunction solar cell. …”
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Ultra-Thick Organic Pigment Layer Up to 10 μm Activated by Crystallization in Organic Photovoltaic Cells by Mikimasa Katayama, Toshihiko Kaji, Satoru Nakao, Masahiro Hiramoto

“…Here, we demonstrate that crystallization made a 10-μm-thick pigment layer active in a photovoltaic cell, using a prototypical pair of pigments, phthalocyanine, and fullerene. It is proved that crystalline pigment layer with a thickness much greater than what is needed for optical optimization can be utilized for organic optoelectronic devices and that organic optoelectronic devices have potentiality to relief their design from co-optimization of optics and charge transport.…”
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Ternary semitransparent organic solar cells with a laminated top electrode by Mohammed Makha, Paolo Testa, Surendra Babu Anantharaman, Jakob Heier, Sandra Jenatsch, Nicolas Leclaire, Jean-Nicolas Tisserant, Anna C. Véron, Lei Wang, Frank Nüesch, Roland Hany

“…The photo-active material is based on a majority blend composed of a visibly absorbing donor polymer and a fullerene acceptor, to which a selective near-infrared absorbing cyanine dye is added as a minority component. …”
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Recent Progress in Large‐Area Organic Solar Cells by Ben Zhang, Fu Yang, Yaowen Li

“…Given the reformation of non‐fullerene acceptors, the certificated power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single‐junction OSCs has developed rapidly over 19% in the small device size (<1 cm2). …”
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Practical Advantage of Using WS2 Nano Coating versus Standard Anti-Corrosion Protection in Industry 4.0 by Dragan Vuksanović*, Goran Jakšić

“…The aim of this paper and research is to obtain real and statistically relevant data that would be an indication of justification of the application of nanotechnology from the aspect of improving the functional properties: anti-corrosive, antifoaming and thermosetting when applying surface protection based on nano particles tungsten disulphide fullerene structure (WS2) (on metallic materials, coloured materials and alloys), as well as from the aspect of economic cost-effective use of new technologies in Factory of the Future (FoF) and Industry 4.0. …”
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Electrospinning Processing of Polymer/Nanocarbon Nanocomposite Nanofibers—Design, Features, and Technical Compliances by Ayesha Kausar, Ishaq Ahmad

“…The polymer nanocomposites with nanocarbon nanofillers (carbon nanotube, graphene, fullerene, etc.) were processed into high-performance nanofibers. …”
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Critical Progress of Polymer Solar Cells with a Power Conversion Efficiency over 18% by Hongyue Tian, Mingxin Zhao, Xiaoling Ma, Chunyu Xu, Wenjing Xu, Zhongyuan Liu, Miao Zhang, Fujun Zhang

“…In this review, some typical materials of high-performance OPVs are summarized, including representative polymer donor materials, non-fullerene acceptor materials, and interfacial modification materials, as well as their design rules for molecular engineering. …”
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The photoemission study of Sr-intercalated C60 by Peng Wang, Ateeq Rehman, Liang Meng, Wen-Jie Li, Hong-Nian Li, Wen-Hua Zhang, Jun-Fa Zhu

“…Motivated by the renaissance of fullerene superconductivity, research on fullerides has once more become a hot topic in physics and material science. …”
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System of metastable volume-localized electronic states in positively charged semiconductor single-wall carbon nanotubes by S.A. Votyakov, A.V. Osadchy, E.D. Obraztsova

“…The volume-localized electronic states (SAMOs) with a maximum of their electron wave functions located in the cavity of nanomaterials have been experimentally and theoretically demonstrated in a fullerene. The existence of SAMOs in single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) was also predicted theoretically. …”
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Efficient bulk heterojunction photovoltaic devices based on modified PCBM by Sharma Shyam S., Sharma Khushboo, Sharma G.D.

“…In bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells, conjugated polymers and fullerene derivatives [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) function as the electron-donating and electron-accepting materials, respectively. …”
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Superatomic states under high pressure by Rui Wang, Xinrui Yang, Wanrong Huang, Zhonghua Liu, Yu Zhu, Hanyu Liu, Zhigang Wang

“…By studying the compression process of the CH4@C60 system formed via embedding methane molecules inside fullerene C60, it is found that the system maintains superatomic properties in both static states, and even dynamic rotation situations influenced by quantum tunneling. …”
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Enhanced thermal stability of organic solar cells comprising ternary D-D-A bulk-heterojunctions by Dominik Landerer, Adrian Mertens, Dieter Freis, Robert Droll, Tobias Leonhard, Alexander Deniz Schulz, Daniel Bahro, Alexander Colsmann

“…This work reveals the importance of a third component to lock the phase conformation of the polymer and fullerene domains. This is a key step for the thermally stable power output thus the commercialization of the organic solar cells.…”
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The effects of a pyrrolidine functional group on the magnetic properties of N@C60 by Zhang, J, Morton, J, Sambrook, MR, Porfyrakis, K, Ardavan, A, Briggs, G

“…A new stable pyrrolidine functionalized fullerene derivative, C69H10N2O2, has been synthesized, purified by high performance liquid chromatography, and characterized by MALDI mass spectrometry, UV-vis spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared, 1H and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance. …”

The structural landscape in 14-vertex clusters of silicon, M@Si14: when two bonding paradigms collide by Jin, X, Arcisauskaite, V, McGrady, J

“…The candidate structures include a D3h-symmetric 'fullerene-like' isomer with 3-connected vertices (A), an 'arachno' architecture (B) and an octahedral isomer with high vertex connectivities typical of 'closo' electron-deficient clusters (C). …”

Enhanced photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from organic semiconductor heterojunction nanoparticles by Kosco, J, Bidwell, M, Cha, H, Martin, T, Howells, CT, Sachs, M, Anjum, DH, Gonzalez Lopez, S, Zou, L, Wadsworth, A, Zhang, W, Zhang, L, Tellam, J, Sougrat, R, Laquai, F, DeLongchamp, DM, Durrant, JR, McCulloch, I

“…We demonstrate that incorporating a heterojunction between a donor polymer (PTB7-Th) and non-fullerene acceptor (EH-IDTBR) in organic nanoparticles (NPs) can result in hydrogen evolution photocatalysts with greatly enhanced photocatalytic activity. …”

Modification of the fluorinated tin oxide/electron-transporting material interface by a strong reductant and its effect on perovskite solar cell efficiency by Pulvirenti, F, Wegner, B, Noel, NK, Mazzotta, G, Hill, R, Patel, JB, Herz, LM, Johnston, MB, Riede, MK, Snaith, HJ, Koch, N, Barlow, S, Marder, SR

“…Replacing TiO2 with fullerene derivatives has been shown to result in improved electronic contact and increased device lifetime, making it of interest to assess whether similar improvements can be achieved by using other organic semiconductors as ETMs. …”

Ultrafast charge separation at a polymer-single-walled carbon nanotube molecular junction. by Stranks, S, Weisspfennig, C, Parkinson, P, Johnston, M, Herz, L, Nicholas, R

“…Our results suggest that SWNT-P3HT blends incorporating only small fractions (1%) of SWNTs allow photon-to-charge conversion with efficiencies comparable to those for conventional (60:40) P3HT-fullerene blends, provided that small-diameter tubes are individually embedded in the P3HT matrix.…”