News and Announcements
09/2014
Congratulations to Thinh Le for winning the ALS Doctoral Fellowship from the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
09/2014
Congratulations to Thinh Le for winning the Outstanding Symposium Talk Award at the 2014 Chemical Engineering Research Symposium.
09/2014
The article entitled "Azadipyrromethene-based Zn(II) complex as non-planar conjugated electron acceptors for organic photovoltaics" co-authored by Sameer Vajjala Kesava, Changhe Guo and Enrique Gomez is published in Advanced Materials. The paper can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.201400647/abstract.
05/2014
Congratulations to Changhe Guo for winning the ALS Doctoral Fellowship in Residence from the Advanced Light Source at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab.
04/2014
Congratulations to the Gomez lab for winning this year's Environmental Health & Safety Inspection Award for Chemical Engineering.
04/2014
Congratulations to Brandon Smith for winning the monthly safety award in the Chemical Engineering Department at Penn State.
04/2014
Gopal Mor's paper entitled "Contact doping with strong polyelectrolytes for organic photovoltaics" co-authored by Thinh Le, Patrick Weathers, Megumi Woltermann, Kiarash Vakhshouri, Bryan Williams, Sarah Tohran and Enrique Gomez is published in Advanced Energy Materials. The paper can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201400439/abstract.
02/2014
Sameer Vajjala Kesava's paper entitled "Domain compositions and fullerene aggregation govern charge photogeneration in polymer/fullerene solar cells" co-authored by Enrique Gomez is published in Advanced Energy Materials. The paper can be found here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aenm.201400116/abstract.
10/2013
The article entitled "Tuning the dielectric properties of organic semiconductors via salt doping" co-authored by Bryan Williams, Kiarash Vakhshouri, Changhe Guo and Enrique Gomez is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry B. The paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp408537p.
10/2013
The article entitled "Tuning contact recombination and open-circuit voltage in polymer solar cells viaself-assembled monolayer adsorption at the organic-metal oxide interface" co-authored by Enrique Gomez is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. The paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/jp406625e.
09/2013
The article entitled "Can Flow Disperse Nanoparticles into Polymer Melts?" co-authored by Enrique Gomez is published in ACS Macro Letters. The paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/mz400447k.
07/2013
Congratulations to Kiarash Vakhshouri for obtaining a position at Carestream Health.
07/2013
The article entitled "Sustainable thermoplastic elastomers derived from fatty acids" co-authored by Sameer Vajjala Kesava and Enrique Gomez is published in Macromolecules. The paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ma4011846.
06/2013
Sameer Vajjala Kesava's paper entitled "Mesoscopicstructural length scales in P3HT/PCBM mixtures remain invariant for various processing conditions" co-authored by Derek Kozub, Kiarash Vakhshouri and Enrique Gomez is published in Chemistry of Materials. The paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/cm4011426.
05/2013
Changhe Guo's paper entitled "Conjugated block copolymer photovoltaics with near 3% efficiency through microphase separation" co-authored by Matt Witman and Enrique Gomez is published in Nano Letters. The paper can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/nl401420s.
04/2013
Congratulations to Changhe Guo for being selected as a finalist for the Materials Research Society Poster Award in the 2013 MRS spring meeting in San Francisco.
03/2013
Congratulations to Kiarash Vakhshouri for winning the Padden Award. The Padden Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a graduate student working in polymer physics by APS (http://www.aps.org/units/dpoly/awards/padden.cfm).
01/2013
Congratulations to Kiarash Vakhshouri for being selected as a Padden Award finalist by the American Physical Society (APS). The Padden Award is the highest honor bestowed upon a graduate student working in polymer physics by APS. Kiarash will give a seminar at an award symposium hosted by the Division of Polymer Physics at the APS March Meeting in Baltimore, MD.
01/2013
The article entitled "Synthesis of perfluoroalkyl end-functionalized poly(3-hexylthiophene) and the effect of fluorinated end-groups on solar cell performance", co-authored by Kiarash Vakhshouri and Enrique Gomez is published in Macromolecules (2013, 46, p. 103).
01/2013
Kiarash Vakhshouri's paper entitled "Characterization of the mesoscopic structure in the photoactive layer of organic solar cells: a focused review", co-authored by Derek Kozub, Sameer Vajjala Kesava and Enrique Gomez is published in Materials Letters (2013, 90, p. 97).
12/2012
Kiarash Vakhshouri's paper entitled "Effect of crystallization kinetics on microstructure and charge transport of polythiophenes" is published in Macromolecular Rapid Communications (2012, 33, p. 2133).
09/2012
Congratulations to Kiarash Vakhshouri for winning the Best Paper Award in Chemical Engineering at Penn State. Kiarash's submission was published in Physical Review Letters (link to paper).
09/2012
Congratulations to Gopal Mor for obtaining a position at First Solar.
04/2012
Derek Kozub's paper entitled "Direct Measurements of Exciton Diffusion Length Limitations on Organic Solar Cell Performance", co-authored by Kiarash Vakhshouri, Sameer Vajjala Kesava, and Enrique Gomez is published in Chemical Communications (2012, 48, p. 5859).
02/2012
The article entitled "Influence of Acceptor Structure on Barriers to Charge Separation in Organic Photovoltaic Materials ",co-authored by Changhe Guo, Kiarash Vakhshouri and Enrique Gomez, is published in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2012, 116, p. 4824). This article was also highlighted as the cover.
01/2012
Kiarash Vakhshouri's paper entitled "Effect of Miscibility and Percolation on Electron Transport in Amorphous Poly(3-Hexylthiophene)/Phenyl-C61-Butyric Acid Methyl Ester Blends" is published in Physical Review Letters (2012, 108, 026601).
11/2011
Congratulations to Kiarash Vakhshouri for winning the Air Products Graduate Fellowship.
08/2011
Congratulations to Changhe Guo for winning the Outstanding Candidacy Award in Chemical Engineering at Penn State.
08/2011
Congratulations to Changhe Guo and Kiarash Vakhshouri for each winning a Best Poster Award at the Emerging Materials for Thin-Film Solar Cells Workshop hosted by the International Center for Materials Research at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
08/2011
Congratulations to Patrick Weathers for winning 2nd place in the Research Experience for Undergraduates Poster Symposium.
06/2011
Derek Kozub's paper entitled "Polymer crystallization of partially miscible polythiophene/fullerene mixtures controls morphology" is published in Macromolecules (2011, 44, p. 5722).
03/2011
Enrique Gomez's co-authored paper entitled "Device characteristics of bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells are independent of interfacial segregation of active layers" is published in Chemistry of Materials (2011, 23, p. 2020).
01/2011
Enrique Gomez's paper entitled "Correlating the scattered intensities of P3HT and PCBM to the current densities of polymer solar cells" is published in Chemical Communications (2011, 47, p. 436).
10/2010
Congratulations to Kiarash Vakhshouri for winning an Outstanding Candidacy Exam Award in Chemical Engineering at Penn State.
04/2010
Enrique Gomez's paper entitled "Engineering the organic semiconductor-electrode interface in polymer solar cells" is published in the Journal of Materials Chemistry (2010, 20, p. 6604).
03/2011
Enrique Gomez's co-authored paper entitled "Directly patternable, highly conducting polymers for broad applications in organic electronics" is published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science (2010, 107, p. 5712).