1.    Applying Heteroatom Effect of Chalcogen for High-Performance Small-Molecule Solar Cells

       Zichun Zhou, Shengjie Xu, Wenrui Liu, Cheng Zhang, Qin Hu, Feng Liu,* Thomas P Russell, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

       J. Mater. Chem. A 2017, 5, 3425-3433.

 

2.    Fast Construction of Dianthraceno[a,e]pentalenes for OPV Applications

       Zhongbo Zhang, Haijun Fan, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

       Org. Chem. Front. 2017, 4, 711-716

 

 3.    Insight of thin-film stacking modes of π-expanded quinoidal molecules on charge transport property via side-chain engineering

       Cheng Zhang, Dafei Yuan, Hao Wu, Eliot Gann, Lars Thomsen, Christopher R. McNeil,* Chong-an Di,* Xiaozhang Zhu*, and Daoben Zhu  

       J. Mater. Chem. C 2017, 5, 1935-1943.

 

4.    1,3-Bis(thieno[3,4-b]thiophen-6-yl)-4H-thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6(5H)-dione-Based Small-Molecule Donor for Efficient Solution-Processed Solar Cells

        Zhongbo Zhang, Zichun Zhou, Qin Hu, Feng Liu, Thomas P. Russell, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

        ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 6213–6219

 

5.     Efficient Semitransparent Solar cells with High NIR Responsiveness Enabled by a Small-Bandgap Electron Acceptor

        Feng Liu, Zichun Zhou, Cheng Zhang, Jianyun Zhang, Qin Hu, Thomas Vergote, Feng Liu,* Thomas P. Russell, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

       Adv. Mater. 2017, 29, 16065

6.     Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Novel Small-Molecule Optoelectronic Materials (cover paper)

         Cheng Zhang and Xiaozhang Zhu*

         Acc. Chem. Res. 2017. 50, 1342–1350.

         

7.     The Critical Role of Molecular Symmetry on Charge Transport Property: A Paradigm Learned from Quinoidal Bithieno[3,4-b]thiophenes

         Longbin Ren, Dafei Yuan, Eliot Gann, Yuan Guo, Lars Thomsen, Christopher R. McNeill, Chong-an Di, Yuanping Yi, Xiaozhang Zhu,* and Daoben Zhu

         Chem. Mater. 2017, 29, 4999–5008.

8.     Effect of ZnO-processing methods on device performance and stability of effective inverted solar cells

        Haijun Fan and Xiaozhang Zhu*

        Appl. Phys. Lett., 2017. 111, 033302

 

9.     Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-based non-fullerene solar cell achieves high photovoltaic performance with small energy loss

         Feng Liu, Jianyun Zhang, Zichun Zhou, Jianqi Zhang, Zixiang Wei, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

        J. Mater. Chem. A 2017. 5, 16573–16579.

 

10.     Steric-Hindrance Modulation toward High-Performance 1,3-Bis(thieno[3,4-b]thiophen-6-yl)-4H-thieno[3,4-c]pyrrole-4,6(5H)-dione-Based Polymer Solar Cells with Enhanced Open-Circuit Voltage

          Cheng Zhang, Zichun Zhou, Hao Wu, Feng Liu, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

          Adv. Electron. Mater. 2017, DOI: 10.1002/aelm.201700213

 

11.     Efficient Solution-Processed n-Type Small-Molecule Thermoelectric Materials Achieved by Precisely Regulating Energy Level of Organic Dopants

          Dafei Yuan, Dazhen Huang, Cheng Zhang, Ye Zou, Chong-an Di,^* Xiaozhang Zhu,^* and Daoben Zhu

          ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b07282

12.     A Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Small-Molecule Donor with a π-Extended Dithienobenzodithiophene Core for Efficient Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells

          Wuyue Liu, Zichun Zhou, Thomas Vergote, Shengjie Xu,* and Xiaozhang Zhu*

          Mater. Chem. Front. 2017, DOI: 10.1039/C7QM00291B 

 13.     Ullmann-Type Intramolecular C-O Reaction Toward Thieno[3,2-b]furan Derivatives with up to Six Fused Rings

          Daoliang Chen, Dafei Yuan, Cheng Zhang, Hao Wu, Jianyun Zhang, Baolin Li,* and Xiaozhang Zhu*

          J. Org. Chem. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b01745

14.     A Twisted Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Electron Acceptor Featuring a 14-π-Electron Indenoindene Core for High-Performance Organic Photovoltaics

          Sheng jie Xu, Zichun Zhou, Wuyue Liu, Zhongbo Zhang, Feng Liu, Hongping Yan, Xiaozhang Zhu 

          Adv. Mater., 2017, 1704510

15.     A large-bandgap small-molecule electron acceptor utilizing a new indacenodibenzothiophene core for organic solar cells

          Pengfei Wang, Haijun Fan, Cheng Zhang and Xiaozhang Zhu*

          Mater. Chem. Front. 2017, DOI: 10.1039/c7qm00403f

16.      A Designed Ladder-Type Heteroarene Benzodi(Thienopyran) for High-Performance Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cells

           Hao Wu, Haijun Fan, Shengjie Xu, Cheng Zhang, Shanshan Chen, Changduk Yang, Daoliang Chen, Feng Liu, Xiaozhang Zhu

           Solar RRL, 2017, 1, 1700165

17.      Bis-Silicon-Bridged Stilbene: A Core for Small-Molecule Electron Acceptor for High-Performance Organic Solar Cells

           Zhongbo Zhang†, and Xiaozhang Zhu*

           Chem. Mater. 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b04930

18.      Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene linker enables a low-bandgap fluorene-cored molecular acceptor for efficient non-fullerene solar cells

           Haijun Fan, Thomas Vergote, Shengjie Xu, Shanshan Chen, Changduk Yang and Xiaozhang Zhu

           Mater. Chem. Front., 2017,DOI: 10.1039/C7QM00585G