We would like to announce this Open Call for our upcoming themed collection on All-Polymer Solar Cells to be published in Chemical Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A or Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
This collection is guest edited by Professor Tsuyoshi Michinobu (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Professor Chu-Chen Chueh (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) and Professor Ergang Wang (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden).
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) offer a promising alternative to conventional small molecule-based organic solar cells due to their many superior properties such as mechanical flexibility/stretchability and higher device stability. Recent significant successes are based on the development of high-performance polymer donors and acceptors that exhibit tunable light absorption, nanoscale bulk-heterojunction morphology, large-area fabrication capability, and long-term stability against external environmental and mechanical stresses. All these properties have greatly improved the photovoltaic performance of all-PSCs and are now in discussion for commercial applications.
Please consider contributing to this open call for papers for our upcoming themed collection on All-Polymer Solar Cells to be published in Chemical Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A and Journal of Materials Chemistry C.
Submissions to the journal should contain chemistry in a materials context and should fit within the scope of the submitting journal. Please see the journal websites for more information on the scope, standards, article types and author guidelines.
This call for papers is open for the following article types:
- Communications
- Full papers
Open for Submissions until 31 March 2025
How to submit
If you would like to contribute to this themed collection, you can submit your article directly to the online submission service for Chemical Communications, Journal of Materials Chemistry A or Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Please mention that this submission is a contribution to the All-Polymer Solar Cells collection in the “Themed issues” section of the submission form and add a “Note to the Editor” that this is from the Open Call. The Editorial Office reserves the right to check suitability of submissions in relation to the scope of both the journal and the collection, and inclusion of accepted articles in the final themed issue is not guaranteed.
Guest Editors
Tsuyoshi Michinobu is a Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Institute of Science Tokyo. His research focuses on the synthesis and electronic device applications of semiconducting polymers. He developed a series of high-mobility organic semiconducting polymers based on benzobisthiadiazole and its heteroatom-substituted analogues as a potent acceptor unit. These polymers were applied to high-performance transistors and photovoltaic devices. Recently, near-infrared light-emitting properties of these polymers were also studied. He has published more than 220 papers with H-index of 50 (Google scholar). He received SPSJ Showa Denko Materials Award (2020) and the Award of The Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan (2024).
Professor Chueh’s research team focuses on solution-processable semiconductors, including organic small molecules, conjugated polymers, and organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites, and focusing on their applications in memories, light-emitting diodes, transistors, and solar cells. Dr. Chueh received Young Faculty Awards from Taiwanese Institute of Chemical Engineers and from the Polymer Society, Taipei (2020), Ta-You Wu Memorial Award from National Science Council, Taiwan (2022) and Outstanding Asian Researcher and Engineer Award from the Society of Chemical Engineers (SCEJ), Japan (2024). He has coauthored over 245 scientific papers in the area of organic/hybrid optoelectronics with citation > 23000 and H-index of 78 (recorded by Google scholar). Dr. Chueh has been recognized by Clarivate Analytics as 2018, 2019 Highly Cited Researcher and by I&EC Research as 2020 Class of Influential Researchers.
Dr Ergang Wang is a full professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers University of Technology. He was promoted to full professor in 2023, after having been a professor since 2019. His academic path at Chalmers includes previous roles as an Associate Professor (2016-2019) and Assistant Professor (2012-2016), as well as a postdoctoral fellowship in the same department from 2008 to 2011. He holds a PhD in Materials Science, awarded in 2008, and completed his Docentship in 2015. Professor Wang has been recognized with a Wallenberg Academy Fellowship in 2017, which was prolongated in 2022. His academic journey has also included enriching experiences as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara (2016-2017), and MIT (2024).
