Speakers

Prof. Zhicai HE is currently a professor at South China University of Technology. He has won the second prize of the National Natural Science Award of China, the first prize of the Natural Science of the Ministry of Education of China, and has been supported by the National High-level Talent Programs.

Prof. He is mainly engaged in the research of organic optoelectronic materials and device mechanism. In recent years, he has made important research achievements in the working mechanism of organic interface materials of Organic Solar Cells and has published more than 60 papers with more than 7,000 times citations.

A Brief Story about the Water-/Alcohol-Soluble Interlayers in Organic Electronics 

Abstract

Water-soluble/alcohol-soluble polyelectrolytes used in organic electronics are proposed to able to reduce the work function of the underlying surface due to the effect of interfacial dipoles, which may lead to a better charge transport in organic electronic devices. Here, I would like to introduce our researches on the formation mechanism of such interlayers, especially the formation dynamics of interfacial dipoles.

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