Despite the rapid increase in power conversion efficiency (PCE) of non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) based solar cells in recent years, organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices exhibit considerably larger voltage losses compared to...

A perylene-based acceptor (PMI-FF-PMI), consisting of two perylene monoimide (PMI) units bridged with a dihydroindeno[1,2 b]fluorene molecule was developed as a potential non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) for organic solar cells (OSCs)....

Natural dielectrics are emerging nowadays as a niche selection of materials for applications targeting biocompatibility and biodegradability for electronics and sensors within the overall effort of scientific community to achieve sustainable development and to build environmental consciousness. The two natural resins analyzed in this study, silver fir and Rocky mountain fir demonstrate robust dielectric properties and excellent film forming capabilities, while being trap free dielectrics in high‐performance organic field effect transistors (OFETs) operating at voltages as low as 1 V. Immense research possibilities are demonstrated through the avenue of inorganic nanofillers insertions in the natural resins film, that opens the door for fabrication of very low voltage OFETs with high dielectric constant insulating layers.

Photon cooling via anti-Stokes photoluminescence (ASPL) is a promising approach to realize all-solid-state cryo-refrigeration by photoexcitation.

Electrochemical capture of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) using organic quinones is a promising and intensively studied alternative to the industrially established scrubbing processes. While recent studies focused only on the influence of substituents having a simple mesomeric or nucleophilicity effect, we have systematically selected six anthraquinone (AQ) derivatives (X-AQ) with amino and hydroxy substituents in order to thoroughly study the influence thereof on the properties of electrochemical CO 2 capture. Experimental data from cyclic voltammetry (CV) and UV–Vis spectroelectrochemistry of solutions in acetonitrile were analyzed and compared with innovative density functional tight binding computational results. Our experimental and theoretical results provide a coherent explanation of the influence of CO 2 on the CV data in terms of weak and strong binding nomenclature of the dianions. In addition to this terminology, we have identified the dihydroxy substituted AQ as a new class of molecules forming rather unstable [X-AQ-(CO 2 ) n ] 2– adducts. In contrast to the commonly used dianion consideration, the results presented herein reveal opposite trends in stability for the X-AQ-CO 2 •– radical species for the first time. To the best of our knowledge, this study presents theoretically calculated UV–Vis spectra for the various CO 2 -AQ reduction products for the first time, enabling a detailed decomposition of the spectroelectrochemical data. Thus, this work provides an extension of the existing classification with proof of the existence of X-AQ-CO 2 species, which will be the basis of future studies focusing on improved materials for electrochemical CO 2 capture.