A series of perylene diimide cathode interlayer materials for green solvent processing in conventional organic photovoltaics

• Kathryn M. Wolfe,
• Shahidul Alam,
• Eva German,
• Fahad N. Alduayji,
• Maryam Alqurashi,
• Frédéric Laquai and
• Gregory C. Welch

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2023, 19, 1620–1629, doi:10.3762/bjoc.19.119

• investigation of the processes involved in the formation of the interfacial layer between the donor–acceptor and the charge transport layer. Nevertheless, based on all the optoelectrical characterization, proposed N-annulated perylene diimides-based CILs are suitable candidates for CILs that can be replaced

Fast and efficient synthesis of microporous polymer nanomembranes via light-induced click reaction

• Qi An,
• Youssef Hassan,
• Xiaotong Yan,
• Peter Krolla-Sidenstein,
• Tawheed Mohammed,
• Mathias Lang,
• Stefan Bräse and
• Manuel Tsotsalas

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 558–563, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.54

• solid liquid interfacial layer-by-layer (LbL) synthesis of CMP-nanomembranes via Cu catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC). However, this process featured very long reaction times and limited scalability. Herein we present the synthesis of surface grown CMP thin films and nanomembranes via light

Formose reaction accelerated in aerosol-OT reverse micelles

• Makoto Masaoka,
• Tomohiro Michitaka and
• Akihito Hashidzume

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2663–2667, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.262

• reaction using formaldehyde-13C as starting material are indicative of the formation of ethylene glycol as a major product. Keywords: aerosol-OT; formose reaction; hexadecyltrimethylammonium bromide; interfacial layer; reverse micelles; triton X-100; water pool; Findings The ‘formose reaction’ yields a

• layer are more polar than those in the bulk water phase because of polarization caused by hydration of the surfactant head. Since Rw of AOT reverse micelles is practically proportional to w (Figure S1 in Supporting Information File 1), the fraction of water molecules in the interfacial layer increases

• with decreasing w. As can be seen in Figure 3, Convmax and k2 values are larger at a smaller w. It can be thus concluded that the interfacial layer of restricted water provides an efficient medium for the formose reaction. It is important to characterize the product of the formose reaction in AOT

Effects of solvent additive on “s-shaped” curves in solution-processed small molecule solar cells

• John A. Love,
• Shu-Hua Chou,
• Ye Huang,
• Guilllermo C. Bazan and
• Thuc-Quyen Nguyen

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2543–2555, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.249

• the PEDOT interfacial layer, and thus there may be non-ohmic contacts between the PEDOT and active layer, limiting the voltage [59]. Such an extraction barrier may also explain the build-up of space charge at one contact, and the s-shape to the J–V curve [25][30][60][61][62]. It has recently been

Preparation of Pickering emulsions through interfacial adsorption by soft cyclodextrin nanogels

• Shintaro Kawano,
• Toshiyuki Kida,
• Mitsuru Akashi,
• Hirofumi Sato,
• Motohiro Shizuma and
• Daisuke Ono

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2355–2364, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.257

• is observed in the magnified image due to the fusion of CD nanogel particles (Figure 8B). The spherical CD nanogel particles are easily inter-penetrable [21] and may form a dense interconnected network (Figure 8B). The strong connectivity results in an interfacial layer, which effectively protects