Congratulations to Dr. Marwa Abd-Ellah, Postdoc, Jonathan Cann, PhD candidate, Dr. Sergey V. Dayneko, PostDoc, Edward Cieplechowicz, PhD Candidate, and Dr. Gregory Welch, PhD, on their recently published paper

A recent report at Dr. Gregory Welch Laboratory for Organic Functional Materials research has introduced a newly zinc oxide cathodic interlayer modifier by functionalizing N-annulated perylene diimide molecule with a carboxylic acid, namely, (HOOC5-triazole) PDIN-hex, referred to as IL-1, for the improvement of inverted-type organic photovoltaics. Dr. Marwa Abd-Ellah, NSERC/CFREF postdoctoral fellow and Jonthan Cann, PhD student have investigated the new interlayer “IL-1” which was synthesized using “click” chemistry and incorporated into the photovoltaic device structure using solution-processing methods. The new developed ZnO interlayer modifier has shown an universal performance as an efficient ZnO surface modifier that can be applied to range of solution processed bulk heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with a pronounced increase in their photon to electron power conversion efficiency ranging from 20% to 33% for those with active layer blends based on both fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors. The full paper can be found here.