Publications.
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Selected Publications:
D. Vu, W. L. Tan, L. He, A. Ehm, D. R. T. Zahn, and C. R. McNeill,* “Third Crystalline Form of P(NDI2OD-T2) with Pronounced End-on Texture,” ACS Macro Lett., 12, 140-146 (2023).
C. R. McNeill,* “Resonant Tender X-ray Scattering of Organic Semiconductors,” Acc. Mater. Res., 4(1), 16–26 (2023).
M. Nguyen, U. Kraft, W. L. Tan, I. Dobryden, K. Broch, W. Zhang, H.-I. Un, D. Simatos, D. Venkateshavaran, I. McCulloch, P. M. Claesson, C. R. McNeill, and H. Sirringhaus, “Improving OFF-state bias-stress stability in high-mobility conjugated polymer transistors with an anti-solvent treatment,” Adv. Mater., 2205377 (2022).
L. Tang and C. R. McNeill,* “Capturing the Phase Transformation and Thermal Behavior of P (NDI2OD-T2) with In Situ Grazing Incidence WAXS,” Macromolecules, 55(16), 7273−7283 (2022).
G. Freychet, P. Chantler, Y. Huang, W. L. Tan, M. Zhernenkov, N. Nayak, A. Kumar, P. A. Gilhooly-Finn, C. B. Nielsen, L. Thomsen, S. Roychoudhury, H. Sirringhaus, D. Prendergast, and C. R. McNeill,* “Resolving the backbone tilt of crystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene) with resonant tender X-ray diffraction,” Mater. Horizons, 9, 1649-1657 (2022).
S. Liang, B. Liu, S. Karuthedath, J. Wang, Y. He, W. L. Tan, H. Li, Y. Xu, N. Li, J. Hou, Z. Tang, F. Laquai, C. R. McNeill, C. J. Brabec, W. Li, “Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Pendent Near-Infrared Electron Acceptors for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(35), e202209316 (2022).
L. Tang, L Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “Chain alignment and charge transport anisotropy in blade-coated P(NDI2OD-T2)/PS blend films,” ACS. Appl. Polym. Mater., 4(8), 5501–5514 (2022).
G. Freychet, Y. Huang, W. L. Tan, P. A. Gilhooly-Finn, C. B. Nielsen, H. Sirringhaus, and C. R. McNeill,* “Drastic enhancement of X-ray scattering contrast between amorphous and crystalline phases of poly(3-hexylthiophene) at the sulfur K-edge,” ACS Mater. Lett., 4(5), 764-769 (2022).
W. L. Tan and C. R. McNeill,* “X-ray diffraction of photovoltaic perovskites: Principles and applications,” Appl. Phys. Rev. 9, 021310 (2022).
G. Feng, W. Tan, S. Karuthedath, C. Li, X. Jiao, A. C. Y. Liu, H. Venugopal, Z. Tang, L. Ye, F. Laquai, C. R. McNeill, and W. Li, “Revealing the Side-Chain Dependent Ordering Transition of Highly-Crystalline Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60(48), 25499–25507 (2021).
L. Tang, B. Watts, L. Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “Morphology and charge transport properties of P(NDI2OD-T2)/polystyrene blends,” Macromolecules, 54(23), 11134–11146 (2021).
G. Freychet, E. Gann, M. Zhernenkov, and C. R. McNeill,* “Anisotropic Resonant X‑ray Diffraction of a Conjugated Polymer at the Sulfur K‑Edge,” J. Chem. Phys. Lett., 12(15), 3762−3766 (2021).
W. L. Tan, N. M. Kirby, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Origin of vertical slab orientation in blade-coated layered hybrid perovskite films revealed with in-situ synchrotron X-ray scattering,” Nano Energy, 83 105818 (2021).
G. Freychet, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, X. Jiao, and C. R. McNeill,* “Resonant Tender X-ray Diffraction for Disclosing the Molecular Packing of Paracrystalline Conjugated Polymer Films,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143(3), 1409–1415 (2021).
U. Bothra, N. Jain, A. C. Y. Liu, A. Kala; W. Huang, X. Jiao, E. Gann, V. G. Achanta, C. R. McNeill,* and D. Kabra,* “Correlation of Nano-morphology with Structural and Spectroscopic Studies in Organic Solar Cells,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 3(11), 11080–11089 (2020).
Y. Tang, J. M. Bjuggren, Z. Fei, M. R. Andersson, M. Heeney, and C. R. McNeill,* “Origin of Open-Circuit Voltage Turnover in Organic Solar Cells at Low Temperature,” Solar RRL, 4 (11), 2000375 (2020).
K. Feng, J. Huang, X. Zhang, Z. Wu, S. Shi, L. Thomsen, H. Y. Woo, C. R. McNeill, and Xugang Guo, “High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by N-Type Polymers with an Ultra-Narrow Bandgap Down to 1.28 eV,” Adv. Mater., 32(30) 2001476 (2020).
W. Huang, Z. Jiang, K. Fukuda, X. Jiao, C. R. McNeill, T. Yokota, and T. Someya, “Efficient and Mechanically Robust Ultraflexible Organic Solar Cells Based on Mixed Acceptors,” Joule, 4(1), 128-141 (2020).
W. L. Tan, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Direct assessment of structural order and evidence for stacking faults in layered hybrid perovskite films from X-ray scattering measurements,” J. Mater. Chem. A, 8(25), 12790-12798 (2020).
S. Ruan, D. P. McMeekin, R. Fan, N. A. S. Webster, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Y.-B. Cheng, J. Lu, Y. Ruan, and C. R. McNeill,* “Raman Spectroscopy of Formamidinium-Based Lead Halide Perovskite Single Crystals,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 124(4), 2265-2272 (2020).
W. L. Tan, Y. Y. Choo, W. Huang, X. Jiao, J. Lu, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Oriented attachment as the mechanism for microstructure evolution in chloride-derived hybrid perovskite thin films,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11(43), 39930-39939 (2019).
A. Welford, S. Maniam, E. Gann, X. Jiao, L. Thomsen, S. Langford, and C. R. McNeill,* “Influence of alkyl side-chain type and length on the thin film microstructure and OFET performance of naphthalene diimide-based organic semiconductors,” Org. Electron. 75, 105378 (2019).
S. Ruan, M. A. Surmiak, Y. Ruan, D. P. McMeekin, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem Y.-B. Cheng, J. Lu, and C. R. McNeill,* “Light induced Degradation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites,” J. Mater. Chem. C., 7(30), 9326-9334 (2019).
K Rundel, Y. Shin, A. Chesman, A. Liu, A. Welford, L. Thomsen, M. Sommer, and C. R. McNeill,* “Effect of Thionation on the Performance of PNDIT2-Based Polymer Solar Cells,” J. Phys. Chem. C 123(19) 12062-12072 (2019).
K. Rundel, Y. Liang, A. Welford, D. Prendergast, and C. R. McNeill,* “Understanding the effect of thionation on naphthalene diimide using first-principles predictions of near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectra,” J. Chem. Phys. 150(1) 104302 (2019).
C. Zuo, A. D. Scully, D. Vak, W. L. Tan, X. Jiao, C. R. McNeill, D. Angmo, L. Ding, and M. Gao, “Self-Assembled 2D Perovskites Layers for Efficient Printable Solar Cells,” Adv. Energy Mater., 9(4) 1803258 (2019).
R. Yang, R. Li, Y. Cao, Y. Wei, Y. Miao, W. L. Tan, X. Jiao, H. Chen, L. Zhang, Q. Chen, H. Zhang, W. Zou, Y. Wang, M. Yang, C. Yi, N. Wang, F. Gao, C. R McNeill, T. Qin, J. Wang, and Wei Huang, “Oriented Quasi‐2D Perovskites for High Performance Optoelectronic Devices,” Adv. Mater. 30(51) 1804771 (2018).
E. Gann, M. Caironi, Y.-Y. Noh, Y.-H. Kim, and C. R. McNeill,* “Diffractive X-ray waveguiding reveals orthogonal crystalline stratification in conjugated polymer thin films,” Macromolecules, 51(8), 2979–2987 (2018).
M. M. Nahid, A. Welford, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, K. P. Sharma, and C. R. McNeill,* “Nature and Extent of Solution Aggregation Determines the Performance of P(NDI2OD-T2) Thin-Film Transistors,” Adv. Electron. Mater., 4(4), 1700559 (2018).
K. D Deshmukh, R. Matsidik, S. K. K.Prasad, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, M. Sommer and C. R. McNeill,* “Tuning the Molecular Weight of the Electron Accepting Polymer in All-Polymer Solar Cells: Impact on Morphology and Charge Generation.” Adv. Funct. Mater. 28(18): 1707185 (2018).
A. Tewari, S. Gandla, S. Bohm, C. R. McNeill, and D. Gupta, “Highly exfoliated MWNT-rGO ink wrapped Polyurethane foam for Piezoresistive pressure sensor applications,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10(6), 5185–5195 (2018).
Z. Fei, F. D. Eisner, X. Jiao, M. Azzouzi, J. Röhr, Y. Han, M. Shahid, A. S. R. Chesman, C. D. Easton, C. R. McNeill, T. D. Anthopoulos, J. Nelson, M. Heeney, “An Alkylated Indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Nonfullerene Acceptor with High Crystallinity Exhibiting Single Junction Solar Cell Efficiencies Greater than 13% with Low Voltage Losses,” Adv. Mater., 30(8), 1705209 (2018).
A. Welford, S. Maniam, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, S. J. Langford, and C. R. McNeill,* “Thionation of naphthalene diimide molecules: Thin-film microstructure and transistor performance,” Org. Electron. 53, 287–295 (2018).
W. Huang, E. Gann, N. Chandrasekaran, L. Thomsen, S. K. K. Prasad, J. M. Hodgkiss, D. Kabra, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Isolating and Quantifying the Impact of Domain Purity on the Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells,” Energy & Environ. Sci. 10(8), 1843-1853 (2017).
M. M. Nahid, R. Matsidik, A. Welford, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, M. Sommer and C. R. McNeill,* “Unconventional Molecular Weight Dependence of Charge Transport in the High Mobility n-type Semiconducting Polymer P(NDI2OD-T2),” Adv. Funct. Mater. 27(9) 1604744 (2017).
W. Huang, E. Gann, N. Chandrasekaran, S. K. K. Prasad, S.-Y. Chang, L. Thomsen, D. Kabra, J. M. Hodgkiss, Y-B. Cheng, Y. Yang* and C. R. McNeill,* “Influence of Fullerene Acceptor on the Performance, Microstructure and Photophysics of Low Band-Gap Polymer Solar Cells,” Adv. Energy Mater. 7(11) 1602197 (2017).
M. M. Nahid, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “NEXAFS Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers,” Eur. Polym. J, 81 532–554 (2016).
S. G. Bucella, A. Luzio, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, C. R. McNeill, G. Pace, Z. Chen, A. Facchetti, and M. Caironi, “Macroscopic and high-throughput alignment of printed nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics,” Nat. Comm., 6, 8394 (2015).
W. Huang, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, C. Dong, Y.-B. Cheng and C. R. McNeill,* “Unravelling the morphology of high efficiency polymer solar cells based on the donor polymer PBDTTT-EFT,” Adv. Energy Mater. 5(7) 1401259 (2015).
K. Deshmukh, T. Qin, J. K. Gallaher, A. C. Y. Liu, E. Gann, K. O’Donnell, L. Thomsen, J. M. Hodgkiss, S. E. Watkins and C. R. McNeill,* “Performance, morphology and photophysics of high open-circuit voltage, low band gap all-polymer solar cells,” Energy Environ. Sci. 8(1), 332-342 (2015).
E. Gann, X. Gao, C.-A. Di, and C. R. McNeill,* “Phase transitions and anisotropic thermal expansion in high mobility core-expanded naphthalene diimide thin film transistors,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 24(45) 7211–7220 (2014).
F. Huang, Y. Dkhissi, W. Huang, M. Xiao, I. Benesperi, S. Rubanov, Y. Zhu, X. Lin, L. Jiang, Y Zhou, A. Gray-Weale, J. Etheridge, C. R. McNeill, R. A. Caruso, U. Bach, L. Spiccia, and Y.-B. Cheng, “Gas-assisted preparation of lead iodide perovskite films consisting of a monolayer of single crystalline grains for high efficiency planar solar cells,” Nano Energy. 10 10 – 18 (2014).
F. Zhang, Y. Hu, T. Schuettfort, C. -A. Di,* X. Gao,* C. R. McNeill,* L. Thomsen, S. C. B. Mannsfeld, W. Yuan, H. Sirringhaus, and D. Zhu* "Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semiconductors in Enabling Solution-Processed N-channel Organic Thin-film Transistors with Mobility of up to 3.50 cm2/Vs,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135(6) 2338–2349 (2013).
Y. Tang, and C. R. McNeill,* “All-polymer solar cells utilizing low bandgap polymers as donor and acceptor,” J. Polym. Sci. B 51(6) 403-409 (2013).
T. Schuettfort, L. Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “Observation of a distinct surface orientation in films of a high mobility conjugated polymer,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135(3) 1092-1101 (2013).
B. A. Collins, Z. Li, J. R. Tumbleston, E. Gann, C. R. McNeill, and H. Ade “Absolute measurement of domain composition and nanoscale size distribution explains performance in PTB7:PC71BM solar cells,” Adv. Energy Mater. 3(1) 65-74 (2013).
B. A. Collins, J. Cochran, H. Yan, E. Gann, C. Hub, R. Fink, C. Wang, T. Schuettfort, C. R. McNeill, M. L. Chabinyc, and H. Ade, “Polarized x-ray scattering reveals molecular orientation in ordered and amorphous functional organic films,” Nat. Mater., 11(6) 536–543 (2012).
T. Schuettfort, B. Watts, L. Thomsen, M. Lee, H. Sirringhaus, and C. R. McNeill,* “Microstructure of Polycrystalline PBTTT Films: Domain Mapping and Structure Formation,” ACS Nano, 6(2) 1849-1864 (2012).
C. R. McNeill,* “Morphology of all-polymer solar cells,” Energy Environ. Sci., 5(2) 5653-5667 (2012).
H. Yan, B. Collins, E. Gann, C. Wang, H. Ade,* and C. R. McNeill,* “Correlating the Efficiency and Nanomorphology of Polymer Blend Solar Cells Utilizing Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering," ACS Nano, 6(1), 677–688 (2012).
Z. Li, F. Gao, N. C. Greenham and C. R. McNeill,* “Comparison of the operation of polymer/fullerene, polymer/polymer and polymer/nanocrystal solar cells: A transient photocurrent and photovoltage study,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 21(8) 1419-1431 (2011).
B. Watts, T. Schuettfort and C. R. McNeill,* “Mapping of domain orientation and molecular order in polycrystalline semiconducting polymer films with soft x-ray microscopy,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 21(6) 1121-1131 (2011).
J. R. Moore, S. Albert-Seifried, A. Rao, S. Massip, B. Watts, D. J. Morgan, R. H. Friend, C. R. McNeill and H. Sirringhaus, “Polymer Blend Solar Cells Based on a High-Mobility Naphthalenediimide-Based Polymer Acceptor: Device Physics, Photophysics and Morphology,” Adv. Energy Mater., 1(2) 230-240 (2011).
B. Collins, E. Gann, G. Lewis, X. He, C. R. McNeill and H. Ade, “Molecular Miscibility of Polymer-Fullerene Blends,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1(21) 3160-3166 (2010).
C. R. McNeill,* and N. C. Greenham, “Conjugated Polymer Blends for Optoelectronics,” Adv. Mater., 21(38-39) 3840-3850 (2009).
C. R. McNeill,* A. Abrusci, J. Zaumseil, R. Wilson, M. J. McKiernan, J. J. M. Halls, N. C. Greenham, R. H. Friend, “Dual electron donor/electron acceptor character of a conjugated polymer in efficient photovoltaic diodes,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 90(19) 193506 (2007).
C. R. McNeill,* B. Watts, L. Thomsen, W. J. Belcher, N. C. Greenham & P. C. Dastoor, “Nano-scale quantitative chemical mapping of conjugated polymer blends,” Nano Lett., 6(6) 1202-1206 (2006).
C. R. McNeill,* H. Frohne, J. L. Holdsworth, & P. C. Dastoor, “Near-field scanning photocurrent measurements of polyfluorene blend devices: directly correlating morphology with current generation,” Nano Lett., 4(12) 2503-2507 (2004).
C. R. McNeill, H. Frohne, J. L. Holdsworth, B. V. King and P. C. Dastoor, “Direct Photocurrent Mapping of Organic Solar Cells Using a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope,” Nano Lett., 4(2) 219-223 (2004).
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Selected Publications:
D. Vu, W. L. Tan, L. He, A. Ehm, D. R. T. Zahn, and C. R. McNeill,* “Third Crystalline Form of P(NDI2OD-T2) with Pronounced End-on Texture,” ACS Macro Lett., 12, 140-146 (2023).
C. R. McNeill,* “Resonant Tender X-ray Scattering of Organic Semiconductors,” Acc. Mater. Res., 4(1), 16–26 (2023).
M. Nguyen, U. Kraft, W. L. Tan, I. Dobryden, K. Broch, W. Zhang, H.-I. Un, D. Simatos, D. Venkateshavaran, I. McCulloch, P. M. Claesson, C. R. McNeill, and H. Sirringhaus, “Improving OFF-state bias-stress stability in high-mobility conjugated polymer transistors with an anti-solvent treatment,” Adv. Mater., 2205377 (2022).
L. Tang and C. R. McNeill,* “Capturing the Phase Transformation and Thermal Behavior of P (NDI2OD-T2) with In Situ Grazing Incidence WAXS,” Macromolecules, 55(16), 7273−7283 (2022).
G. Freychet, P. Chantler, Y. Huang, W. L. Tan, M. Zhernenkov, N. Nayak, A. Kumar, P. A. Gilhooly-Finn, C. B. Nielsen, L. Thomsen, S. Roychoudhury, H. Sirringhaus, D. Prendergast, and C. R. McNeill,* “Resolving the backbone tilt of crystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene) with resonant tender X-ray diffraction,” Mater. Horizons, 9, 1649-1657 (2022).
S. Liang, B. Liu, S. Karuthedath, J. Wang, Y. He, W. L. Tan, H. Li, Y. Xu, N. Li, J. Hou, Z. Tang, F. Laquai, C. R. McNeill, C. J. Brabec, W. Li, “Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers with Pendent Near-Infrared Electron Acceptors for Single-Component Organic Solar Cells,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 61(35), e202209316 (2022).
L. Tang, L Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “Chain alignment and charge transport anisotropy in blade-coated P(NDI2OD-T2)/PS blend films,” ACS. Appl. Polym. Mater., 4(8), 5501–5514 (2022).
G. Freychet, Y. Huang, W. L. Tan, P. A. Gilhooly-Finn, C. B. Nielsen, H. Sirringhaus, and C. R. McNeill,* “Drastic enhancement of X-ray scattering contrast between amorphous and crystalline phases of poly(3-hexylthiophene) at the sulfur K-edge,” ACS Mater. Lett., 4(5), 764-769 (2022).
W. L. Tan and C. R. McNeill,* “X-ray diffraction of photovoltaic perovskites: Principles and applications,” Appl. Phys. Rev. 9, 021310 (2022).
G. Feng, W. Tan, S. Karuthedath, C. Li, X. Jiao, A. C. Y. Liu, H. Venugopal, Z. Tang, L. Ye, F. Laquai, C. R. McNeill, and W. Li, “Revealing the Side-Chain Dependent Ordering Transition of Highly-Crystalline Double-Cable Conjugated Polymers,” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60(48), 25499–25507 (2021).
L. Tang, B. Watts, L. Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “Morphology and charge transport properties of P(NDI2OD-T2)/polystyrene blends,” Macromolecules, 54(23), 11134–11146 (2021).
G. Freychet, E. Gann, M. Zhernenkov, and C. R. McNeill,* “Anisotropic Resonant X‑ray Diffraction of a Conjugated Polymer at the Sulfur K‑Edge,” J. Chem. Phys. Lett., 12(15), 3762−3766 (2021).
W. L. Tan, N. M. Kirby, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Origin of vertical slab orientation in blade-coated layered hybrid perovskite films revealed with in-situ synchrotron X-ray scattering,” Nano Energy, 83 105818 (2021).
G. Freychet, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, X. Jiao, and C. R. McNeill,* “Resonant Tender X-ray Diffraction for Disclosing the Molecular Packing of Paracrystalline Conjugated Polymer Films,” J. Am. Chem. Soc., 143(3), 1409–1415 (2021).
U. Bothra, N. Jain, A. C. Y. Liu, A. Kala; W. Huang, X. Jiao, E. Gann, V. G. Achanta, C. R. McNeill,* and D. Kabra,* “Correlation of Nano-morphology with Structural and Spectroscopic Studies in Organic Solar Cells,” ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 3(11), 11080–11089 (2020).
Y. Tang, J. M. Bjuggren, Z. Fei, M. R. Andersson, M. Heeney, and C. R. McNeill,* “Origin of Open-Circuit Voltage Turnover in Organic Solar Cells at Low Temperature,” Solar RRL, 4 (11), 2000375 (2020).
K. Feng, J. Huang, X. Zhang, Z. Wu, S. Shi, L. Thomsen, H. Y. Woo, C. R. McNeill, and Xugang Guo, “High-Performance All-Polymer Solar Cells Enabled by N-Type Polymers with an Ultra-Narrow Bandgap Down to 1.28 eV,” Adv. Mater., 32(30) 2001476 (2020).
W. Huang, Z. Jiang, K. Fukuda, X. Jiao, C. R. McNeill, T. Yokota, and T. Someya, “Efficient and Mechanically Robust Ultraflexible Organic Solar Cells Based on Mixed Acceptors,” Joule, 4(1), 128-141 (2020).
W. L. Tan, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Direct assessment of structural order and evidence for stacking faults in layered hybrid perovskite films from X-ray scattering measurements,” J. Mater. Chem. A, 8(25), 12790-12798 (2020).
S. Ruan, D. P. McMeekin, R. Fan, N. A. S. Webster, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem, Y.-B. Cheng, J. Lu, Y. Ruan, and C. R. McNeill,* “Raman Spectroscopy of Formamidinium-Based Lead Halide Perovskite Single Crystals,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 124(4), 2265-2272 (2020).
W. L. Tan, Y. Y. Choo, W. Huang, X. Jiao, J. Lu, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Oriented attachment as the mechanism for microstructure evolution in chloride-derived hybrid perovskite thin films,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 11(43), 39930-39939 (2019).
A. Welford, S. Maniam, E. Gann, X. Jiao, L. Thomsen, S. Langford, and C. R. McNeill,* “Influence of alkyl side-chain type and length on the thin film microstructure and OFET performance of naphthalene diimide-based organic semiconductors,” Org. Electron. 75, 105378 (2019).
S. Ruan, M. A. Surmiak, Y. Ruan, D. P. McMeekin, H. Ebendorff-Heidepriem Y.-B. Cheng, J. Lu, and C. R. McNeill,* “Light induced Degradation in Mixed-Halide Perovskites,” J. Mater. Chem. C., 7(30), 9326-9334 (2019).
K Rundel, Y. Shin, A. Chesman, A. Liu, A. Welford, L. Thomsen, M. Sommer, and C. R. McNeill,* “Effect of Thionation on the Performance of PNDIT2-Based Polymer Solar Cells,” J. Phys. Chem. C 123(19) 12062-12072 (2019).
K. Rundel, Y. Liang, A. Welford, D. Prendergast, and C. R. McNeill,* “Understanding the effect of thionation on naphthalene diimide using first-principles predictions of near-edge x-ray absorption fine structure spectra,” J. Chem. Phys. 150(1) 104302 (2019).
C. Zuo, A. D. Scully, D. Vak, W. L. Tan, X. Jiao, C. R. McNeill, D. Angmo, L. Ding, and M. Gao, “Self-Assembled 2D Perovskites Layers for Efficient Printable Solar Cells,” Adv. Energy Mater., 9(4) 1803258 (2019).
R. Yang, R. Li, Y. Cao, Y. Wei, Y. Miao, W. L. Tan, X. Jiao, H. Chen, L. Zhang, Q. Chen, H. Zhang, W. Zou, Y. Wang, M. Yang, C. Yi, N. Wang, F. Gao, C. R McNeill, T. Qin, J. Wang, and Wei Huang, “Oriented Quasi‐2D Perovskites for High Performance Optoelectronic Devices,” Adv. Mater. 30(51) 1804771 (2018).
E. Gann, M. Caironi, Y.-Y. Noh, Y.-H. Kim, and C. R. McNeill,* “Diffractive X-ray waveguiding reveals orthogonal crystalline stratification in conjugated polymer thin films,” Macromolecules, 51(8), 2979–2987 (2018).
M. M. Nahid, A. Welford, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, K. P. Sharma, and C. R. McNeill,* “Nature and Extent of Solution Aggregation Determines the Performance of P(NDI2OD-T2) Thin-Film Transistors,” Adv. Electron. Mater., 4(4), 1700559 (2018).
K. D Deshmukh, R. Matsidik, S. K. K.Prasad, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, M. Sommer and C. R. McNeill,* “Tuning the Molecular Weight of the Electron Accepting Polymer in All-Polymer Solar Cells: Impact on Morphology and Charge Generation.” Adv. Funct. Mater. 28(18): 1707185 (2018).
A. Tewari, S. Gandla, S. Bohm, C. R. McNeill, and D. Gupta, “Highly exfoliated MWNT-rGO ink wrapped Polyurethane foam for Piezoresistive pressure sensor applications,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 10(6), 5185–5195 (2018).
Z. Fei, F. D. Eisner, X. Jiao, M. Azzouzi, J. Röhr, Y. Han, M. Shahid, A. S. R. Chesman, C. D. Easton, C. R. McNeill, T. D. Anthopoulos, J. Nelson, M. Heeney, “An Alkylated Indacenodithieno[3,2-b]thiophene-Based Nonfullerene Acceptor with High Crystallinity Exhibiting Single Junction Solar Cell Efficiencies Greater than 13% with Low Voltage Losses,” Adv. Mater., 30(8), 1705209 (2018).
A. Welford, S. Maniam, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, S. J. Langford, and C. R. McNeill,* “Thionation of naphthalene diimide molecules: Thin-film microstructure and transistor performance,” Org. Electron. 53, 287–295 (2018).
W. Huang, E. Gann, N. Chandrasekaran, L. Thomsen, S. K. K. Prasad, J. M. Hodgkiss, D. Kabra, Y.-B. Cheng, and C. R. McNeill,* “Isolating and Quantifying the Impact of Domain Purity on the Performance of Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells,” Energy & Environ. Sci. 10(8), 1843-1853 (2017).
M. M. Nahid, R. Matsidik, A. Welford, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, M. Sommer and C. R. McNeill,* “Unconventional Molecular Weight Dependence of Charge Transport in the High Mobility n-type Semiconducting Polymer P(NDI2OD-T2),” Adv. Funct. Mater. 27(9) 1604744 (2017).
W. Huang, E. Gann, N. Chandrasekaran, S. K. K. Prasad, S.-Y. Chang, L. Thomsen, D. Kabra, J. M. Hodgkiss, Y-B. Cheng, Y. Yang* and C. R. McNeill,* “Influence of Fullerene Acceptor on the Performance, Microstructure and Photophysics of Low Band-Gap Polymer Solar Cells,” Adv. Energy Mater. 7(11) 1602197 (2017).
M. M. Nahid, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “NEXAFS Spectroscopy of Conjugated Polymers,” Eur. Polym. J, 81 532–554 (2016).
S. G. Bucella, A. Luzio, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, C. R. McNeill, G. Pace, Z. Chen, A. Facchetti, and M. Caironi, “Macroscopic and high-throughput alignment of printed nanostructured polymer semiconductors for MHz large-area electronics,” Nat. Comm., 6, 8394 (2015).
W. Huang, E. Gann, L. Thomsen, C. Dong, Y.-B. Cheng and C. R. McNeill,* “Unravelling the morphology of high efficiency polymer solar cells based on the donor polymer PBDTTT-EFT,” Adv. Energy Mater. 5(7) 1401259 (2015).
K. Deshmukh, T. Qin, J. K. Gallaher, A. C. Y. Liu, E. Gann, K. O’Donnell, L. Thomsen, J. M. Hodgkiss, S. E. Watkins and C. R. McNeill,* “Performance, morphology and photophysics of high open-circuit voltage, low band gap all-polymer solar cells,” Energy Environ. Sci. 8(1), 332-342 (2015).
E. Gann, X. Gao, C.-A. Di, and C. R. McNeill,* “Phase transitions and anisotropic thermal expansion in high mobility core-expanded naphthalene diimide thin film transistors,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 24(45) 7211–7220 (2014).
F. Huang, Y. Dkhissi, W. Huang, M. Xiao, I. Benesperi, S. Rubanov, Y. Zhu, X. Lin, L. Jiang, Y Zhou, A. Gray-Weale, J. Etheridge, C. R. McNeill, R. A. Caruso, U. Bach, L. Spiccia, and Y.-B. Cheng, “Gas-assisted preparation of lead iodide perovskite films consisting of a monolayer of single crystalline grains for high efficiency planar solar cells,” Nano Energy. 10 10 – 18 (2014).
F. Zhang, Y. Hu, T. Schuettfort, C. -A. Di,* X. Gao,* C. R. McNeill,* L. Thomsen, S. C. B. Mannsfeld, W. Yuan, H. Sirringhaus, and D. Zhu* "Critical Role of Alkyl Chain Branching of Organic Semiconductors in Enabling Solution-Processed N-channel Organic Thin-film Transistors with Mobility of up to 3.50 cm2/Vs,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135(6) 2338–2349 (2013).
Y. Tang, and C. R. McNeill,* “All-polymer solar cells utilizing low bandgap polymers as donor and acceptor,” J. Polym. Sci. B 51(6) 403-409 (2013).
T. Schuettfort, L. Thomsen, and C. R. McNeill,* “Observation of a distinct surface orientation in films of a high mobility conjugated polymer,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 135(3) 1092-1101 (2013).
B. A. Collins, Z. Li, J. R. Tumbleston, E. Gann, C. R. McNeill, and H. Ade “Absolute measurement of domain composition and nanoscale size distribution explains performance in PTB7:PC71BM solar cells,” Adv. Energy Mater. 3(1) 65-74 (2013).
B. A. Collins, J. Cochran, H. Yan, E. Gann, C. Hub, R. Fink, C. Wang, T. Schuettfort, C. R. McNeill, M. L. Chabinyc, and H. Ade, “Polarized x-ray scattering reveals molecular orientation in ordered and amorphous functional organic films,” Nat. Mater., 11(6) 536–543 (2012).
T. Schuettfort, B. Watts, L. Thomsen, M. Lee, H. Sirringhaus, and C. R. McNeill,* “Microstructure of Polycrystalline PBTTT Films: Domain Mapping and Structure Formation,” ACS Nano, 6(2) 1849-1864 (2012).
C. R. McNeill,* “Morphology of all-polymer solar cells,” Energy Environ. Sci., 5(2) 5653-5667 (2012).
H. Yan, B. Collins, E. Gann, C. Wang, H. Ade,* and C. R. McNeill,* “Correlating the Efficiency and Nanomorphology of Polymer Blend Solar Cells Utilizing Resonant Soft X-ray Scattering," ACS Nano, 6(1), 677–688 (2012).
Z. Li, F. Gao, N. C. Greenham and C. R. McNeill,* “Comparison of the operation of polymer/fullerene, polymer/polymer and polymer/nanocrystal solar cells: A transient photocurrent and photovoltage study,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 21(8) 1419-1431 (2011).
B. Watts, T. Schuettfort and C. R. McNeill,* “Mapping of domain orientation and molecular order in polycrystalline semiconducting polymer films with soft x-ray microscopy,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 21(6) 1121-1131 (2011).
J. R. Moore, S. Albert-Seifried, A. Rao, S. Massip, B. Watts, D. J. Morgan, R. H. Friend, C. R. McNeill and H. Sirringhaus, “Polymer Blend Solar Cells Based on a High-Mobility Naphthalenediimide-Based Polymer Acceptor: Device Physics, Photophysics and Morphology,” Adv. Energy Mater., 1(2) 230-240 (2011).
B. Collins, E. Gann, G. Lewis, X. He, C. R. McNeill and H. Ade, “Molecular Miscibility of Polymer-Fullerene Blends,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 1(21) 3160-3166 (2010).
C. R. McNeill,* and N. C. Greenham, “Conjugated Polymer Blends for Optoelectronics,” Adv. Mater., 21(38-39) 3840-3850 (2009).
C. R. McNeill,* A. Abrusci, J. Zaumseil, R. Wilson, M. J. McKiernan, J. J. M. Halls, N. C. Greenham, R. H. Friend, “Dual electron donor/electron acceptor character of a conjugated polymer in efficient photovoltaic diodes,” Appl. Phys. Lett., 90(19) 193506 (2007).
C. R. McNeill,* B. Watts, L. Thomsen, W. J. Belcher, N. C. Greenham & P. C. Dastoor, “Nano-scale quantitative chemical mapping of conjugated polymer blends,” Nano Lett., 6(6) 1202-1206 (2006).
C. R. McNeill,* H. Frohne, J. L. Holdsworth, & P. C. Dastoor, “Near-field scanning photocurrent measurements of polyfluorene blend devices: directly correlating morphology with current generation,” Nano Lett., 4(12) 2503-2507 (2004).
C. R. McNeill, H. Frohne, J. L. Holdsworth, B. V. King and P. C. Dastoor, “Direct Photocurrent Mapping of Organic Solar Cells Using a Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscope,” Nano Lett., 4(2) 219-223 (2004).