2024

1.  Interface Regulation via an Organometallic Ferrocene-Based Molecule toward Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells., ACS Energy Lett. 2024, 9, 4283−4292.

Fei Wang, Taomiao Wang, Chuangye Ge ,Yonggui Sun, Xiaokang Sun, Xiao Liang, Dawei Duan, Qiannan Li, Yongjun Li, Fan Zhang, Guo Yang, Xianfang Zhou, Quanyao Zhu*, Haoran Lin, Hu Chen*, Tom Wu*, Hanlin Hu*

2. Enhancing Efficiency and Photo-Stability of Organic Solar Cells via Vertical Phase Separation Morphology Induced by Surface. Modification of PEDOT:PSS with Star-Shaped Benzene-Based DFTAB Additive. , ACS Mater. Lett. 2024, 6, 3282−3290.  

 Xiaokang Sun, Jie Lv, Xiaoman Ding, Chuanlin Gao, Guangye Zhang, Jinfeng Zeng, Chao Zou, Wanli Liu, Shunan Zhao, Xiaoping Ouyang,* Chunming Yang,* Hanlin Hu*, Hu Chen* 

3.  Li Promoting Long Afterglow Organic Light-Emitting Transistor for Memory Optocoupler Module. Adv. Mater. 2024, adma.202402515. 

Yusheng Chen, Hanlin Wang, Hu Chen, Weimin Zhang, Michael Pätzel, Bin Han, Kexin Wang, Shunqi Xu, Verónica Montes-García, Iain McCulloch, Stefan Hecht, Paolo Samorì*

2023

1.      Aldol Condensation for the Construction of Organic Functional Materials. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, e202311879. 

Xiuyuan Zhu, Jiayao Duan, Junxin Chen, Riping Liu, Ze Qin, Hu Chen* and Wan Yue*

2.      19% efficient and stable organic photovoltaic enabled by guest nonfullerene acceptor with fibril-like morphology. Energy Environ. Sci. 16, 1062-1070. (ESI Highly Cited Paper)

Hu Chen, Sang Young Jeong, Junfu Tian, Yadong Zhang, Maryam Alsufyani, Weimin Zhang, Sophie Griggs, Hanlin Hu, Stephen Barlow, Han Young Woo, Seth R Marder, Iain McCulloch, Yuanbao Lin*  

3.      Expanding the Potential of Biosensors: A Review on Organic Field Effect Transistor (OFET) and Organic Electrochemical Transistor (OECT) Biosensors. Materials Futures 2023, 2.

 Yue. Niu, Ze. Qin, Ying. Zhang, Chao. Chen, Sha. Liu*, Hu. Chen* 

4.  Quasi-1D Polymer Semiconductor – Diarylethene Blends:High Performance Optically Switchable Transistors. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 33, 2305494. 

Yusheng Chen, Hanlin Wang, Hu Chen, Weimin Zhang, Shunqi Xu, Michael Pätzel, Chun Ma, Cang Wang, Iain McCulloch, Stefan Hecht, Paolo Samorì*

5. Solution-processable polymers of intrinsic microporosity for gas-phase carbon dioxide photoreduction. Nat.Commun. 2023, 14, 3443.

Floriana Moruzzi, Weimin Zhang, Balaji Purushothaman, Soranyel Gonzalez-Carrero, Catherine M. Aitchison, Benjamin Willner, Fabien Ceugniet, Yuanbao Lin, Jan Kosco, Hu Chen, Junfu Tian, Maryam Alsufyani, Joshua S. Gibson, Ed Rattner, Yasmine Baghdadi, Salvador Eslava, Marios Neophytou, James R. Durrant, Ludmilla Steier & Iain McCulloch*

6.  The effect of residual palladium on the performance of organic electrochemical transistors. Nat.Commun. 2023, 14, 3443.

Sophie Griggs, Adam Marks, Dilara Meli, Gonzague Rebetez, Olivier Bardagot, Bryan D. Paulsen, Hu Chen, Karrie Weaver, Mohamad I. Nugraha, Emily A. Schafer, Joshua Tropp, Catherine M. Aitchison, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Natalie Banerji, Jonathan Rivnay & Iain McCulloch

Representative publications Before 2023

1.      Acene Ring Size Optimisation in Fused Lactam Polymers Enabling High n-Type Organic Thermoelectric Performance. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 260–268. 

Hu Chen*, Maximilian Moser*, Suhao Wang, Cameron Jellett, Karl Thorley, George T. Harrison, Xuechen Jiao, Mingfei Xiao, Balaji Purushothaman, Maryam Alsufyani, Helen Bristow, Stefaan de Wolf, Andrew Wadsworth, Christopher R. McNeill, Henning Sirringhaus, Simone Fabiano and Iain McCulloch 

2.      The Effect of Ring Expansion in Thienobenzo[b]indacenodithiophene Polymers for Organic Field-Effect Transistors. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 18806-18813. 

Hu Chen*, Andrew Wadsworth*, Chun Ma, Alice Nanni, Weimin Zhang, Mark Nikolka, Alexander M. T. Luci, Luís M. A. Perdigão, Karl J. Thorley, Camila Cendra, Bryon Larson, Garry Rumbles, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Alberto Salleo, Giovanni Costantini, Henning Sirringhaus, Iain McCulloch 

3.      Dithiopheneindenofluorene (TIF) Semiconducting Polymers with Very High Mobility in Field-Effect Transistors. Adv. Mater. 2017, 1702523. 

Hu Chen*, Michael Hurhangee, Mark Nikolka, Weimin Zhang, Mindaugas Kirkus, Marios Neophytou, Samuel J Cryer, David Harkin, Pascal Hayoz, Mojtaba AbdiJalebi, Christopher R McNeill, Henning Sirringhaus, Iain McCulloch

4.      Modification of Indacenodithiophene-Based Polymers and its Im-pact on Charge Carrier Mobility in Organic Thin-Film Transistors. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 652-664. 

Andrew Wadsworth, Hu Chen, Karl J. Thorley, Camila Cendra, Mark Nikolka, Helen Bris-tow, Maximilian Moser, Alberto Salleo, Thomas D. Anthopoulos, Henning Sirringhaus, Iain McCulloch* (Equal first author)

5.      Charge Transport Physics of a Unique Class of Rigid-Rod Conjugated Polymers with Fused Ring Conjugated Units Linked by Double Carbon-Carbon Bonds, Sci. Adv. 2021, 7, eabe5280.

 Mingfei Xiao, Remington L. Carey, Hu Chen, Xuechen Jiao, Vincent Lemaur, Sam Schott, Mark Nikolka, Cameron Jellett, Aditya Sadhanala, Sarah Rogers, Satyaprasad P. Senanayak, Ada Onwubiko, Sanyang Han, Zhilong Zhang, Mojtaba Abdi-Jalebi, Youcheng Zhang, Tudor H. Thomas, Najet Mahmoudi, Lianglun Lai, Ekaterina Selezneva, Xinglong Ren, Malgorzata Nguyen, Qijing Wang, Ian Jacobs, Wan Yue, Christopher R. McNeill, Guoming Liu, David Beljonne, Iain McCulloch, Henning Sirringhaus* (Equal first author)

6.      One-Step Facile Synthesis of a Simple Hole Transport Material for Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells. Chem. Mater. 2016, 28, 2515-2518. 

Hu Chen*, Daniel Bryant, Joel Troughton, Mindaugas Kirkus, Marios Neophytou, Xiaohe Miao, James R. Durrant and Iain McCulloch

7.      Highly trans-Stereoselective Synthesis of Bicyclic Isoxazolidines via Copper-Catalyzed Triple Cascade Catalysis. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 3503−3509. 

Hu Chen, Zhaofeng Wang, Yingnan Zhang, and Yong Huang* 

8.      A Copper-catalyzed Aerobic Domino Process for the Synthesis of Isoindolin-1-ylidene Derivatives. Tetrahedron 2015, 71, 3632-3636. 

Hu Chen, Qian Wang and Yong Huang*