Self-Assembled Organic Materials for Photovoltaic Application

Self-assembled Smart Nanocoating and Colloidal Materials for Biomedical Application

Creation of novel and smart materials is one of the driving forces for the evolution of coating and encapsulation technologies. A challenge of materials engineering is the controlled assembly of purposefully designed molecules, or ensembles of molecules, into nanoand micrometer-scale structures to provide increasingly precise control at molecular levels, over the structure, properties and funct...

Optoelectrical Imaging Methods for Organic Photovoltaic Materials and Modules

Advanced Organic Hole Transport Materials for Solution-Processed Photovoltaic Devices

Solution-processable photovoltaic devices (PVs), such as perovskite solar cells (PSCs) and solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells (sDSCs) show great potential to replace the conventional silicon-based solar cells for achieving low-cost and large-area solar electrical energy generation in the near future, due to their easy manufacture and high efficiency. Organic hole transport materials (HTMs) ...

Self-assembled tin-based bridged hybrid materials.

Hybrid materials where layers of tin oxide alternate with layers of hydrophobic organic chains were prepared by the hydrolysis of distannylated compounds containing an organic chain alpha,omega-disubstituted by tripropynylstannyl groups. In the case of an aliphatic chain, hydrolysis under microemulsion conditions led to the organization of the corresponding hybrid. These hydrolysis conditions a...

Self-assembled organic and biological films

In situ spectroscopic ellipsometry is employed to investigate the adsorption of Yeast Cytochrome c (YCC) on SiO2/Si substrates. In order to highlight the slight variations induced by protein adsorption, difference spectra (δΔ and δΨ) have been considered, following the approach introduced in our previous studies on self-assembled monolayers. The difference spectra show a s...