Welcome to Emergent Functional Polymer Research Team!
We work on the development of new organic semiconducting polymer materials and their application to organic electronic devices. Specifically, we seek the methodology and the molecular design to control the precise structures in molecular- and nano-scale at our will, and try to find breakthroughs to drastically enhance the performance of the organic electronic devices. Targets of our research are not only the conventional organic solar cells and field-effect transistors, but also the organic electronic devices with new functions based on the structure controls.
Research

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Enhancement of VOC without Loss of JSC in Organic Solar Cells by Modification of Donor/Acceptor Interfaces (Adv. Energy Mater. 2014) DOI

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Vertical Orientation of Semiconducting Polymers in Thin Films Induced by Molecular Self-organization (JACS 2013) DOI

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Control of Miscibility and Aggregation via Material Design and Coating Process for High-Performance Polymer Blend Solar Cell (Adv. Mater. 2013) DOI

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Effects of Side Chain Sequence on Surface Segregation of Semiconducting Polymers (J. Mater. Chem. A 2013) DOI

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Electric Field-Induced Dipole Switching at the Donor/Acceptor Interface in Organic Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 2013) DOI

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Enhanced Vertical Carrier Mobility in Semiconducting Polymer Thin Films Sandwiched with Self-assembled Monolayer and Surface-segregated Layer (Chem. Commun. 2014) DOI

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Low band gap polymers for photovoltaic device with photocurrent response wavelengths over 1000 nm (polymer 2014) DOI

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Nanostructure Control in Polymer Solar Cells by Self-organization of Fullerene-Attached Semiconducting Diblock Copolymers (Macromolecules 2012) DOI

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A Benzoselenadiazole-Based Low Band Gap Polymer: Synthesis and Photovoltaic Application (Macromolecules 2012) DOI

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Energy level chenge of PCBM induced by crystallizaton (J. Phys. Chem. C 2014) DOI

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Polymer blend solar cells with NIR response (ACS Macro Lett. 2014) DOI

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Hand-drawn polymer solar cells with a paint marker pen (AIP Advances 2017) DOI

Emergent Functional Polymers Research Team
RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
2-1 Hirosawa, Wako 351-0198, JAPAN
TEL: 048-467-5731 (ext. 8691)
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