(16) Yang Wang*, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Significant Improvement of Unipolar n-Type Transistor Performances by Manipulating the Coplanar Backbone Conformation of Electron-Deficient Polymers via Hydrogen Bonding; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019,  141, 8, 3566-3575

 

Highlighted in various mass medium: For more details, please click the following links:
Tokyo Tech news:  https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2019/043699.html
AAAS and EurekAlert: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/tiot-oes022819.php
材料系 News：https://educ.titech.ac.jp/mat/news/2019_03/057025.html

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(15) Yang Wang*, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; High-Performance n-Channel Organic Transistors Using High-Molecular-Weight Electron-Deficient Copolymers and Amine-Tailed Self-Assembled Monolayers; Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1707164.

 

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Advance Science News:https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/high-performance-n-type-thin-film-transistors-video/

Video abstract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqUSBuolI5M&feature=youtu.be

Tokyo Tech News: https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/news/2018/040629.html

材料系 News：https://educ.titech.ac.jp/mat/eng/news/2018_02/055369.html

日刊工业新闻: https://www.nikkan.co.jp/articles/view/00462743

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(14) Yang Wang, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Rational Design of High-Mobility Semicrystalline Conjugated Polymers with Tunable Charge Polarity: Beyond Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Polymers”, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2017, 27, 1604608. [Inside Back Cover]

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(13) Yang Wang, Tsukasa Hasegawa, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “D-A1-D-A2 Backbone Strategy for Benzobisthiadiazole Based n-Channel Organic Transistors: Clarifying the Selenium Substitution Effect on the Molecular Packing and Charge Transport Properties in Electron-Deficient Polymers”, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2017, 27, 1701486. [Frontispiece]

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(12) Yang Wang*,  Hiroki Tatsumi,  Rikuo Otsuka,  Takehiko Mori  and  Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Highly-stable, green-solvent-processable organic thin-film transistors: angular- vs linear-shaped carbazoledioxazine derivatives, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018,  6 , 5865-5876 [Inside Back Cover] [2018 Journal of Materials Chemistry C HOT Papers]

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(11) Yang Wang,* Aaron Tze-Rue Tan, Takehiko Moria  and  Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; Inversion of charge carrier polarity and boosting the mobility of organic semiconducting polymers based on benzobisthiadiazole derivatives by fluorination, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 3593-3603 [Inside Front Cover] [Celebrating 50 years of Professor Fred Wudl’s contributions to the field of organic semiconductors]

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(10) Yang Wang,* Tsuyoshi Michinobu; Rational design strategies for electron-deficient semiconducting polymers in ambipolar/n-channel organic transistors and all-polymer solar cells, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2018, 6, 10390-10410 (Invited Review)

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 (9) Yang Wang, Masahiro Nakano,* Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yasuhiro Kiyota, Takehiko Mori, and Kazuo Takimiya* “Naphthodithiophene diimide-Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Polymers: Versatile n-Type Materials for Field-Effect Transistors and Thermoelectric Devices”, Macromolecules, 2017, 50, 857-864

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(8) Yang Wang*, Ryuhei Hosokawa, Takehiko Mori, and Tsuyoshi Michinobu* “Polarity Engineering of Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Polymer Thin Film Transistors by Variation of Electron Affinity of the Comonomers”, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2017, 90, 1041-1049 [Frontispiece & Selected Paper]

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(7) Yang Wang, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*, “Polymeric Chemosensors: A Conventional Platform with New Click Chemistry”, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 2017, 90, 1388-1400. [Inside Cover]

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 (6) Yang Wang, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*, “Benzothiadiazole and Its π-Extended, Heteroannulated Derivatives: Useful Acceptor Building Blocks for High-Performance Donor-Acceptor Polymers in Organic”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2016, 4, 6200-6214. [Back Cover] [2016 Journal of Materials Chemistry C Most Accessed Manuscripts]  

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 (5) Yang Wang, Hiroyasu Masunaga, Takaaki Hikima, Hidetoshi Matsumoto, Takehiko Mori, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “New Semiconducting Polymers Based on Benzobisthiadiazole Analogues: Tuning of Charge Polarity in Thin Film Transistors via Heteroatom Substitution”, Macromolecules, 2015, 48, 4012-4023.

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 (4) Yang Wang, Tomofumi Kadoya, Lei Wang, Teruaki Hayakawa, Masatoshi Tokita, Takehiko Mori, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Benzobisthiadiazole-Based Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Polymers for Organic Thin Film Transistors: Effects of π-Conjugated Bridges on Ambipolar Transport”, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2015, 3, 1196-1207. [Inside Back Cover]

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(3) Yang Wang, Michael FG Klein, Junya Hiyoshi, Susumu Kawauchi, Wallace WH Wong, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Bulk-Heterojunction Organic Solar Cells Based on Benzobisthiadiazole Semiconducting Polymers”, Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, 2015, 28, 385-391. 

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(2) Yang Wang, Ying Liu, Shaojie Chen, Ruixiang Peng, Ziyi Ge*; “Significant Enhancement of Polymer Solar Cell Performance via Side-Chain Engineering and Simple Solvent Treatment”, Chem. Mater., 2013, 25, 3196–3204.

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(1) Yang Wang, Feng Yang, Ying Liu, Ruixiang Peng, Shaojie Chen, Ziyi Ge*; “New Alkylfuranyl-Substituted Benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5-b’] dithiophene-Based Donor-Acceptor Polymers for Highly Efficient Solar Cells”,   Macromolecules, 2013, 46, 1368-1375.

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(7) Ahmed Ali Said, Jian Xie, Yang Wang, Zongrui Wang, Yu Zhou, Kexiang Zhao, WeiBo Gao, Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Qichun Zhang; “Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells by Employing N-Type (D-A1-D-A2) Polymers as Electron Transporting Layer”, Small, 2019, 15, 1803339

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(6) Rykuo Otsuga，Yang Wang*, Takehiko Mori and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “Linear-Type Carbazoledioxazine-Based Organic Semiconductors: the Effect of Backbone Planarity on the Molecular Orientation and Charge Transport Properties”, RSC Adv., 2018, 8, 9822-9832.      

                            

(5) Ying Liu, Yang Wang, Ling Ai, Zhiyang Liu, Xinhua Ouyang, Ziyi Ge*; “Perylenebisimide Regioisomers: Effect of Substituent Position on Their Spectroscopic, Electrochemical, and Photovoltaic Properties”, Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 363-371.         

 (4) Hiroki Tatsumi, Yang Wang, Yosuke Aizawa, Masatoshi Tokita, Takehiko Mori and Tsuyoshi Michinobu*, “Halogen Substitution Effects on the Molecular Packing and Thin Film Transistor Performances of Carbazoledioxazine Derivatives”, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2016, 120, 26686–26694.

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(3) Wei Li, Munechika Otsuka, Takehito Kato, Yang Wang, Takehiko Mori, Tsuyoshi Michinobu*; “3,6-Carbazole vs 2,7-Carbazole: A Comparative Study of Hole-Transporting Polymeric Materials for Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells”, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2016, 12, 1401-1409.   

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(2) Qida Liu, Ying Liu, Yang Wang, Ling Ai, Xinhua Ouyang, Lei Han, Ziyi Ge*; “Anthradithiophene-Benzothiadiazole-Based Small Molecule Donors for Organic Solar Cells”, New Journal of Chemistry, 2013, 37, 3627-3633.   

 

(1) Ying Liu, Qida Liu, Xingye Zhang, Ling Ai, Yang Wang, Ruixiang Peng, Ziyi Ge*; Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Polymerization of Butterfly-Shaped Thieno [3, 2-b] thiophene Oligomers, New Journal of Chemistry, 2013, 37, 1189-1194.