One-Component Artificial Gustatory System Based on Hydrogen-Bond Organic Framework for Discrimination of Versatile Analytes

Hydrogen-bond organic frameworks (HOFs) with excellent structural and luminescent properties have emerged as a promising material for the construction of fluorescence sensors. However, designing a facile, universal and high throughput sensor with multiplex detection capacity still remains challenging. Herein, a one-component sensor array is constructed that mimics natural gustatory system for accurate and high-throughput discrimination and identification of versatile analytes. HOF as a single sensing element greatly simplifies the probe preparation in sensor array and detection procedure. Metal ions, proteins and bacteria as the model targets are rapid and accurately discriminated, presenting the universality of the system. Particularly, the system is successfully used for the classification of antibiotic mechanisms. The study expands the application scope of HOFs and provides a facile and universal system for sensing applications.     

Microporous,Crystalline, and Water-Processable Framework Materials of Organic Amphiphile Salts

Porous framework materials are of major importance for a wide range of technologies. Nevertheless, many of these materials lack processibility as they are typically synthesized under rather harsh conditions and obtained as microcrystalline powders that cannot easily be coated or deposited from solution. Herein, a new approach to water-processable metal–organic framework materials is presented. The materials are based on amphiphilic organic building blocks consisting of polar carboxylate groups and non-polar alkyl chains connected to a rigid aromatic core. The amphiphilic building blocks assemble to porous framework structures via bonding to kinetically labile sodium ions from concentrated aqueous solution. The obtained crystalline materials, termed amphiphile salt frameworks , are thermally and mechanically stable (some derivatives up to 365 °C and up to at least 4000 bar hydrostatic pressure), exhibit persistent microporous channels accessible to several gases (N₂, CO₂, propane, propylene, n-butane), and can be reversibly assembled/disassembled by crystallization from or dissolution in water. Systematic variation of the hydrophobic side chains of the amphiphile building blocks allows extracting structure-property relationships and first design rules for this new class of water-processable microporous framework materials.     

Revealing and Eliminating the Light-Soaking Issue in Metal Oxide-Based Inverted Organic Solar Cells

Inverted organic solar cells (i-OSCs) provide an exciting opportunity for commercialization owing to their excellent device air stability. However, light soaking (LS) issue generally occurs in metal oxide based i-OSCs, causing drastically decreased performance. The underlying root of LS effect is not clearly clarified until now. Herein, it is demonstrated that the surface oxygen defects on metal oxide nanoparticles, such as chemisorbed superoxide (O²⁻) and hydroxide (OH) dangling bonds, are the main reasons for LS issue in i-OSCs. The O²⁻ layer induces band bending at the cathode interface and increases the work function (WF) of metal oxide, thus leading to inefficient charge transport. The dangling bonds serve as interfacial trap states and cause non-radiative recombination, thus leading to the reduced open circuit voltage (V_oc). With ultraviolet (UV) illumination, the surface oxygen defects are interacted with photogenerated carriers, thereby improving the photovoltaic performance. Additionally, UV pretreatment of metal oxide films is employed to eliminate the LS issue and the resulting device yields significantly improved fill factors from 50.20% to 73.50% in the pristine SnO₂ based i-OSCs. This study reveals the origin of LS effect in i-OSCs and proposes a suggested model for LS mechanism.     

Highly Crystalline Soluble Acene Crystal Arrays for Organic Transistors: Mechanism of Crystal Growth During Dip‐Coating

The preparation of uniform large‐area highly crystalline organic semiconductor thin films that show outstanding carrier mobilities remains a challenge in the field of organic electronics, including organic field‐effect transistors. Quantitative control over the drying speed during dip‐coating permits optimization of the organic semiconductor film formation, although the kinetics of crystallization at the air–solution–substrate contact line are still not well understood. Here, we report the facile one‐step growth of self‐aligning, highly crystalline soluble acene crystal arrays that exhibit excellent field‐effect mobilities (up to 1.5 cm V^?1 s^?1) via an optimized dip‐coating process. We discover that optimized acene crystals grew at a particular substrate lifting‐rate in the presence of low boiling point solvents, such as dichloromethane (b.p. of 40.0 °C) or chloroform (b.p. of 60.4 °C). Variable‐temperature dip‐coating experiments using various solvents and lift rates are performed to elucidate the crystallization behavior. This bottom‐up study of soluble acene crystal growth during dip‐coating provides conditions under which one may obtain uniform organic semiconductor crystal arrays with high crystallinity and mobilities over large substrate areas, regardless of the substrate geometry (wafer substrates or cylinder‐shaped substrates).     

A universal roll‐to‐roll slot‐die coating approach towards high‐efficiency organic photovoltaics

This work develops a combinational use of solvent additive and in‐line drying oven on the flexible organic photovoltaics to improve large‐area roll‐to‐roll (R2R) slot‐die coating process. Herein, addition of 1,8‐diiodooctane (DIO) in the photoactive layer is conducted to yield a performance of 3.05% based on the blending of poly(3‐hexylthiophene) (P3HT) and [6,6]‐phenyl C₆₁‐butyric acid methyl ester (PC₆₁BM), and a very promising device performance of 7.32% based on the blending of poly[[4,8‐bis[(2‐ethylhexyl)oxy] benzo[1,2‐b:4,5‐b’] dithiophene‐2,6‐diyl] [3‐fluoro‐2‐[(2‐ethylhexyl)carbonyl]thieno[3,4‐b]thiophenediyl]] (PTB7) and [6,6]‐phenyl C₇₁‐butyric acid methyl ester (PC₇₁BM). Based on this R2R slot‐die coating approach for various polymers, we demonstrate the high‐performance result with respect to the up‐scaling from small high‐PCE cell to large‐area module. This present study provides a route for fabricating a low‐cost, large‐area, and environmental‐friendly flexible organic photovoltaics.     

Holography and plasma oxidation for uniform nanoscale two dimensional channel formation of vertical organic field-effect transistors with suppressed gate leakage current

Vertical organic field-effect transistors (VOFETs) with nanoscale channel openings have been fabricated using pentacene as an active layer material. To achieve uniform nanoscale two-dimensional channel openings, a laser holography lithography has been introduced. Uniformly distributed and well-aligned holes with 250 nm diameter were successfully obtained with the laser holography lithography. VOFET devices with these channel openings have shown high on/off ratio of about 10³ without any further treatment. Gate leakage current was also decreased with an additional insulating layer generated on the gate electrode sidewall via plasma oxidation.     

Aluminum/MoO3 anode thin films:an effective anode structure for high-performance flexible organic optoelectronics

正We report AI/MoO_3 thin film used as a complex anode in high-performance OLEDs.The unique efficacy of the device was found to result from the enhanced injection of holes into the commonly used hole-transporting molecules due to a large reduction in the interface dipole at the anode/organic interface.The superior optical characteristics are attributed to a strong cavity effect.Due to the ease of processing Al/M0O_3 we successfully demonstrated large-area flexible OLEDs on plastic substrates with uniform emission.     

Ga掺杂ZnO薄膜的MOCVD生长及其特性

利用低压MOCVD技术在(0002)蓝宝石上外延获得高质量的ZnO∶Ga单晶薄膜,并研究了Ga的不同掺杂浓度对材料电学和光学特性的影响．当Ga/Zn气相摩尔比为3.2 at%时,ZnO(0002)峰半高宽仅为0.26°,载流子浓度高达2.47e19cm－3,透射率高于90%;当载流子浓度升高时,吸收边出现明显的Burstein-Moss蓝移效应．同时室温光致发光谱显示,紫外峰位随载流子浓度的增加而发生红移,峰形展宽,这和Ga高掺杂所引起的能带重整化效应有关．当Ga/Zn比达到6.3 at%时,由于高掺杂浓度下Ga的自补偿效应导致载流子浓度下降．     

Understanding the Meniscus‐Guided Coating Parameters in Organic Field‐Effect‐Transistor Fabrications

Meniscus‐guided coating (MGC) is mainly applicable on the soluble organic semiconductors with strong π–π overlap for achieving single‐crystalline organic thin films and high‐performance organic field‐effect‐transistors (OFETs). In this work, four elementary factors including shearing speed (v), solute concentration (c), deposition temperature (T), and solvent boiling point (T_b) are unified to analyze crystal growth behavior in the meniscus‐guided coating. By carefully varying and studying these four key factors, it is confirmed that v is the thickness regulation factor, while c is proportional to crystal growth rate. The MGC crystal growth rate is also correlated to latent heat (L) of solvents and deposition temperature in an Arrhenius form. The latent heat of solvents is proportional to T_b. The OFET channels grown by the optimized MGC parameters show uniform crystal morphology (Roughness R_q < 0.25 nm) with decent carrier mobilities (average µ = 5.88 cm² V^?1 s^?1 and highest µ = 7.68 cm² V^?1 s^?1). The studies provide a generalized formula to estimate the effects of these fabrication parameters, which can serve as crystal growth guidelines for the MGC approach. It is also an important cornerstone towards scaling up the OFETs for the sophisticated organic circuits or mass production.     

基于几何和纹理混合的工业产品三维建模

基于风格化的特征形状或外观样式的三维建模是产品设计客观需求,为此本研究提出了一种基于程序化建模方法的工业产品三维建模软件设计。所述建模方法首先将产品三维模型分割为基础功能模型和样式特征模型,其次搜索基础模型和样式模型的所有可能组合,最后通过采用变形技术将模型在纹理和几何水平上组合。评估结果表明,该建模软件能够输出满足用户感官需求的风格化设计产品,且具有良好的系统性能。