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Controlling the selectivity of the hydrogenolysis of polyamides catalysed by ceria-supported metal nanoparticles

Paul Joseph Dyson, Kun-Han Lin, Wei-Tse Lee, Pauline Claire Louise Delannoi, Xinbang Wu, Roland Christopher Turnell-Ritson

Nature Research2023

Is a Single Conformer Sufficient to Describe the Reorganization Energy of Amorphous Organic Transport Materials?

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Kun-Han Lin, Iwona Swiderska, Hélène Wu, Raimon Fabregat I De Aguilar-Amat, Jacob Terence Blaskovits

The reorganization energy (lambda), which quantifies the structural rearrangement of a molecule when accommodating a charge, is a key parameter in the evaluation of charge mobility in molecular solids. However, it is unclear how lambda is influenced by con ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Catalytic hydrocracking of synthetic polymers into grid-compatible gas streams

Paul Joseph Dyson, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antoine Philippe Van Muyden, Felix Daniel Bobbink, Reza Zamani, Kun-Han Lin

The use of methane as one of the cleanest energy sources has attracted significant public awareness, and methane production processes with less environmental impact than fracking are receiving considerable attention. Catalytic hydrocracking of plastic mate ...

2021

Structure-Property Relationships in Bithiophenes with Hydrogen-Bonded Substituents

Rosario Scopelliti, Kurt Schenk, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Holger Frauenrath, Farzaneh Fadaei Tirani, Bilal Özen, Kun-Han Lin

The use of crystal engineering to control the supramolecular arrangement of pi-conjugated molecules in the solid-state is of considerable interest for the development of novel organic electronic materials. In this study, we investigated the effect of combi ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

FB-REDA: fragment-based decomposition analysis of the reorganization energy for organic semiconductors

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Kun-Han Lin

We present a fragment-based decomposition analysis tool (FB-REDA) for the reorganisation energy (lambda). This tool delivers insights on how to rationally design low-lambda organic semiconductors. The contribution of the fragment vibrational modes to the r ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2020

Direct Observation of Aggregation-Induced Emission Mechanism

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Kun-Han Lin, Han Han

The mechanism of aggregation-induced emission, which overcomes the common aggregation-caused quenching problem in organic optoelectronics, is revealed by monitoring the real time structural evolution and dynamics of electronic excited state with frequency ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2020

Doped but Stable: Spirobisacridine Hole Transporting Materials for Hysteresis-Free and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Marius Franckevicius, Sanghyun Paek, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Nikita Drigo, Kun-Han Lin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Albertus Adrian Sutanto, Hobeom Kim, Muhammad Sohail

Four spirobisacridine (SBA) hole-transporting materials were synthesized and employed in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). The molecules bear electronically inert alkyl chains of different length and bulkiness, attached to in-plane N atoms of nearly orthogona ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

FB-ECDA: Fragment-based Electronic Coupling Decomposition Analysis for Organic Amorphous Semiconductors

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Kun-Han Lin

We present a fragment-based decomposition analysis tool (FB-ECDA) for the electronic coupling of charge transfer processes. This tool provides insight on the sophisticated relationship between molecular packing, electronic coupling, and the molecular trans ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Rational Design of Hole Transport Materials: Tools and Structure-Packing-Property Relationships

Kun-Han Lin

The growing demand for low-cost, large-scale and flexible electronics has led to a boost in research on organic semiconductors (OSC). Understanding structure-packing-property relationships (SPPR) and the role of molecular building blocks in charge transpor ...

EPFL2020

Molecular Design and Operational Stability: Toward Stable 3D/2D Perovskite Interlayers

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Kyung Taek Cho, Marius Franckevicius, Sanghyun Paek, Cristina Roldán Carmona, Nikita Drigo, Kun-Han Lin, Pascal Alexander Schouwink, Hiroyuki Kanda, Hobeom Kim

Despite organic/inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells becoming one of the most promising next-generation photovoltaic materials, instability under heat and light soaking remains unsolved. In this work, a highly hydrophobic cation, perfluorobenzylamm ...

2020

Getting the Right Twist: Influence of Donor-Acceptor Dihedral Angle on Exciton Kinetics and Singlet-Triplet Gap in Deep Blue Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence Emitter

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Nikita Drigo, Kun-Han Lin

Here, a novel deep blue emitter SBABz4 for use in organic light-emitting diodes (OLED) is investigated. The molecular design of the emitter enables thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), which we examine by temperature-dependent time-resolved ele ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Multiarm and Substituent Effects on Charge Transport of Organic Hole Transport Materials

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kevin Sivula, Antonio Prlj, Nikita Drigo, Liang Yao, Kun-Han Lin, Han-Hee Cho

We explore several potential dopant-free triphenylamine-based hole transport materials for perovskite solar cells by combining two design strategies: (1) incorporation of multiple arms for mobility enhancement and (2) including Lewis bases that assist in d ...

2019

Mechanisms of fluorescence quenching in prototypical aggregation-induced emission systems: excited state dynamics with TD-DFTB

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Thierry Tran, Kun-Han Lin, Daniel Hollas

A recent implementation of time-dependent tight-binding density functional theory is employed in excited state molecular dynamics for the investigation of the fluorescence quenching mechanism in 3 prototypical aggregation-induced emission systems. An asses ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Restriction Enzyme Analysis of Double-Stranded DNA on Pristine Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes

Ardemis Anoush Boghossian, Shang-Jung Wu, Kun-Han Lin, Alice Judith Gillen

2018

How does alkyl chain length modify the properties of triphenylamine-based hole transport materials?

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Kun-Han Lin

Royal Society of Chemistry2018

Read between the Molecules: Computational Insights into Organic Semiconductors

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Ganna Gryn'ova, Kun-Han Lin

The performance and key electronic properties of molecular organic semiconductors are dictated by the interplay between the chemistry of the molecular core and the intermolecular factors of which manipulation has inspired both experimentalists and theorist ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2018

A Rising Star: Truxene as a Promising Hole Transport Material

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Antonio Prlj, Kun-Han Lin

Truxene and its derivatives have been extensively employed for various applications and are considered as promising dopant-free hole transport materials (HTMs) in perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Yet, a systematic exploration of their performance for this sp ...

American Chemical Society2017