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Three review articles appeared in Adv. En. Mater. on
Pi-Conugated Donor Polymers structure and Morphology: Adv. En. Mater. 1700314, 2017
Hybrid photovoltaics: Adv. En. Mater. 1700248, 2017
Perovskite Solar Cells: Adv. En. Mater. 1700264, 2017
The results of Valery D. Mitchell (guest at UBT in 2016) regarding synthesis and morphology of all-conugated Amphiphilic Block Copolymers is published in Macromolecules 2017, 50, 4942
A detailed study of plasmonic metal nanomeshes as transparent electrodes in organic solar cells was carried out in a joint work with Retsch Group at Bayreuth.
Scientific Reports , 7, 42530, 2017
After a postdoc stay Christiph joined Papierfabrik Luisenthal in february 2017 and he will be in charge of the BMBF project METNETWORK.
In a joint work with experimantal physics, we demonstrate the single molucule photoswitching in Scientific Reports, 7, 41739, 2017
we diferentiate between blinking and deliberate photoswitching.
"The role of colloidal plasmonic nanostructures in organic solar cells" - A systematic study regarding the competing factors of using core-shell metal plasmonic particles at different interfaces in an organic solar cell well evaluated in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys,2016, 18, 23155 (open access)
P3HT bottle brushes (PS-g-P3HT) exhibiting high thermal stability and excellent charge transport properties published in J. Mater. Chem. C 2016, 4, 5370 (open access)
A versatile method of cross-linking low band gap polymers in an easy way using azido-functionalized thiophenemoieties is published in macromolecules, 2016, 49, 3749
Simultaneous morphological stability of nanoscale structures and a matching of p-type and n-type mobility can be achieved by blending PCBM into a block copolymer P3HT-b-PPCM, containing fullerene grafted segments. See J. Polym. Sci., PART B: Polym. Phys., 2016, 54(12), 1125-1136
Perovskite films and solar cells prepared by MAI -vapor assisted method can be extremely stable in ambient conditions. See details in Energy Technology, 2016, 4, 449-457.