Attention OPV chemists! Wondering what to do with all the donors and acceptors you have made that didn’t get published? Read our handy guide to nanoparticles for hydrogen evolution in water. Let’s replace fossil fuels with clean hydrogen energy from solar! nature.com/articles/s4156…

Increasing evidence points to a catalytic role of residual metal clusters in polymer photocatalysts. In our latest preprint ChemRxiv we investigate the timescale of charge transfer to these metal clusters and find distinct differences between polymers: chemrxiv.org/articles/Track…

Wondering what makes PM6:Y6 such an amazing material combination for #OPV?! One answer is the low energetic disorder of Y6 leading to high mobility and reduced Voc losses! @Jiaying_OPV in collab with Nanoanalysis Group & #JianhuiHou. #TPV #APS #Raman #DFT doi.org/10.1039/D0EE01…

More #OPV this week! This time on low-cost & high performing PTQ10:IDIC blends and their long exciton diffusion lengths. Hyojung Cha in collaboration with WC Tsoi from @SUEngineering, Ultrafast OE Group & Iain McCulloch from CPE #TAS #GIWAXS #CE doi.org/10.1002/aenm.2…

Very happy to share that our paper looking at charge transfer to residual metal clusters in polymer photocatalysts (previously seen on ChemRxiv) has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. and is now online: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja…

Many thanks for this excellent collaboration go to: Hyojung Cha @Cath_Aitchison LaiaFF @Sacha_Corby SolarSpec Andy Cooper Sebastian Sprick Iain McCulloch Durrant Group

This really has been a week of polymer photocats. In collaboration with Tang Group, we studied a covalently grafted molecular nickel catalyst on carbon nitrides which allows for rather fast electron transfer - now out in Chemical Science: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

Work led by Chris from the Tang group and our former Erasmus student Alex who was visiting from Heidelberg University. Many thanks Lunqiao Hyojung Cha Durrant Group Tang Group

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council supports the #labtofab efforts for #OPV and #perovskite solar cells with a £6m grant! Read what James Durrant had to say about the importance of this financial support and the future of the technology BBC Wales News bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…

Our paper on charge transfer to residual metal clusters in polymer photocatalysts can be found on both the inside and the outside of the latest issue of J. Am. Chem. Soc.. Read about the full study here: pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja… CPE Imperial Chemistry

LaiaFF Hyojung Cha TheorHetCat ICIQ Franziska Simone Hegner Ludmilla Steier @shababa_selim Andrea Álvarez Moreno

Our internal yearly group conference Bandgap20 is happening online this year with lots of interesting talks and tutorials, conference lunches and social activities!

How to best spend two weeks of quarantine: Hyojung Cha made this amazing inside cover while quarantining in Korea before starting her new position as Assistant Professor at Kyungpook National University! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ae…

SUNRISE is officially Times Higher 2020 International Collaboration of the Year! Thank you to all of our partners for your hard work🎉🏆

To wrap up Women at Imperial Week, a big thank you to all female staff in chemistry: from professional services & technical services colleagues to teaching fellows. All make a massive contribution to the daily operations and teaching of the department so a huge thank you to all!

OPV news in collaboration with Ultrafast OE Group & Iain McCulloch including @Lucasfilm_Ltd quality supplementary cover image! Using #TAS Dr Yifan Dong, Hyojung Cha & Co. investigated the correlation between material energetics and CT state lifetime in small energy offset NFA systems.

Now online! Check out our study on organic semiconductor nanoparticles for photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, in collaboration with Iain McCulloch. Great work by Jan Kosco, Soranyel Gonzalez, Michael Sachs, Hyojung Cha and all our collaborators. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Looking for an interesting read to get you through Monday?! Jiaying Wu, Hyojung Cha, Dr Yifan Dong, Tian Du, Weidong__Xu and Chieh-Ting Lin combined all of their #OPV and #perovskite expertise to write this perspective. #photovoltaics #solarpower onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ad…

Cambridge Chemistry Fantastic to see Professor James Durrant Durrant Group from Imperial Chemistry and Chemistry SwanseaUni (and long-time supporter of @SusEnergyRSC) receive a CBE in the #JubileeHonours.