Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells (2021)
Journal Article
Palacios-Gómez, D. A., Huerta Flores, A. M., MacKenzie, R. C., Pearson, C., Alanazi, F., Mendis, B. G., & Groves, C. (2021). Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 4(10), 10867-10876. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaem.1c01833

Organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices offer the ability to tune the electronic and optical properties of the active layer by selection of a wide range of molecules; however, their power conversion efficiencies currently lag other competing photovoltaic... Read More about Differing Impacts of Blended Fullerene Acceptors on the Performance of Ternary Organic Solar Cells.

Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules (2021)
Journal Article
Vissol-Gaudin, E., Pearson, C., Groves, C., Zeze, D. A., Cantiello, H. F., Cantero, M. D. R., & Petty, M. C. (2021). Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules. Scientific Reports, 11, Article 10776. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-90260-0

We report on the electrical behaviour of thin films of bovine brain microtubules (MTs). For samples in both their dried and hydrated states, the measured currents reveal a power law dependence on the applied DC voltage. We attribute this to the injec... Read More about Electrical behaviour and evolutionary computation in thin films of bovine brain microtubules.

Efficient and Stable Solution-Processed Organic Light Emitting Transistors using a High-k Dielectric (2019)
Journal Article
Nam, S., Chaudhry, M. U., Tetzner, K., Pearson, C., Groves, C., Petty, M. C., …Bradley, D. D. (2019). Efficient and Stable Solution-Processed Organic Light Emitting Transistors using a High-k Dielectric. ACS Photonics, 6(12), 3159-3165. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b01265

We report the development of highly efficient and stable solution-processed organic light emitting transistors (OLETs) that combine a polymer heterostructure with the transparent high-k dielectric poly(vinylidenefluoride0.62-trifluoroethylene0.31-chl... Read More about Efficient and Stable Solution-Processed Organic Light Emitting Transistors using a High-k Dielectric.

Confidence Measures for Carbon-Nanotube / Liquid Crystals Classifiers (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Vissol-Gaudin, E., Kotsialos, A., Groves, C., Pearson, C., Zeze, D., Petty, M., & Al-moubayed, N. (2018). Confidence Measures for Carbon-Nanotube / Liquid Crystals Classifiers. In 2018 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC) : 8-13 July 2018, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ; proceedings (646-653). https://doi.org/10.1109/cec.2018.8477779

This paper focuses on a performance analysis of single-walled-carbon-nanotube / liquid crystal classifiers produced by evolution in materio. A new confidence measure is proposed in this paper. It is different from statistical tools commonly used to e... Read More about Confidence Measures for Carbon-Nanotube / Liquid Crystals Classifiers.

Enhanced Lifetime of organic photovoltaic diodes utilizing a ternary blend including an insulating polymer (2016)
Journal Article
AL-Busaidi, Z., Pearson, C., Groves, C., & Petty, M. (2016). Enhanced Lifetime of organic photovoltaic diodes utilizing a ternary blend including an insulating polymer. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 160, 101-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.10.018

We report on the lifetime of unencapsulated organic photovoltaic diodes (OPVs) based on a ternary blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and a soft insulating polymer, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as c... Read More about Enhanced Lifetime of organic photovoltaic diodes utilizing a ternary blend including an insulating polymer.

Training a Carbon-Nanotube/Liquid Crystal Data Classifier Using Evolutionary Algorithms (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Vissol-Gaudin, E., Kotsialos, A., Massey, M., Zeze, D., Pearson, C., Groves, C., & Petty, M. (2016). Training a Carbon-Nanotube/Liquid Crystal Data Classifier Using Evolutionary Algorithms. In M. Amos, & A. Condon (Eds.), Unconventional computation and natural computation : 15th International Conference, UCNC 2016, Manchester, UK, July 11-15, 2016 ; proceedings (130-141). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41312-9_11

Evolution-in-Materio uses evolutionary algorithms (EA) to exploit the physical properties of unconfigured, physically rich materials, in effect transforming them into information processors. The potential of this technique for machine learning proble... Read More about Training a Carbon-Nanotube/Liquid Crystal Data Classifier Using Evolutionary Algorithms.