Achievement

Trainee Tom Holcombe helped to develop one of the highest performance polymer:fullerene organic photovoltaic devices with efficiency > 6%. As a synthetic chemist, he designed and synthesized the polymers that were part of the study that lead to the explanation of origin of performance with this type of material. He also participated in collaborative work with Alan Sellinger at Stanford to develop the highest performing polymer:non-fullerene small molecules OPV device. Work to investigate the effect of residual metal catalyst in polymeric material for OPV applications has also been started and is in collaboration with the McGehee group at Stanford.