Publications

40. Y. Dong, M. P. Hautzinger, M. A. Haque, and M. C. Beard, Chirality-Induced Spin Selectivity in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Semiconductors, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem., 2025, 76:22.1–22.19.

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39. S. You, H. Zhu, Z. Shen, X. Wang, B. Shao, Q. Wang, J. Lu, Y. Yuan, B. D. Dou, E. M. Sanehira, T. Russell, A. Lorenz, Y Dong, L. Chen, M. Casareto, N. Rolston, M. C. Beard, J. J. Berry, M. Freitag, Y. Yan, O. M. Bakr, and K. Zhu, C60-containing ionic salt buffer layer for high-performance inverted perovskite solar modules, Science, 2025, 388,964-968.

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38. S. Tan, M.-C. Shih, Y. Lu, S.-G. Choi, Y. Dong, J.-H. Lee, I. Yavuz, B. W. Larson, S. Y. Park, T. Kodalle, R. Zhang, M. J. Grotevent, Y.-K. Lin, H. Zhu, V. Bulovi´c, C. M. Sutter-Fella, N.-G. Park, M. C. Beard, J.-W. Lee, K. Zhu, and M. G. Bawendi, Spontaneous formation of robust two-dimensional perovskite phases, Science, 2025, 388, 639-645.

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37. D. R. Maslennikov, M. Maimaris, H. Ning, X. Zheng, N. Mondal, V. V. Bruevich, S. M. Pratik, Y. Dong, J. W. G. Tisch, A. J. Musser, V. Podzorov, J.-L. Bredas, V. Coropceanu, and A. A. Bakulin, Interplay between Mixed and Pure Exciton States Controls Singlet Fission in Rubrene Single Crystals, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2025, 147, 23536-23544.

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36. C. Labanti, Y. Sun, J. Luke, Y Dong, S. Y. Park, Y.-C. Chin, T. Lan, E. J. Yang, L. Zhang, S. Gonzalez-Carrero, J. R. Durrant, and J.-S. Kim, Breaking Crystallinity for Optimal Dark Current: Nonfullerene Acceptor Dilution as a Strategy for High-Performance Organic Photodetectors, Adv. Optical Mater., 2025, 13, 2500255.

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35. M.-C. Shih, S. Tan, Y. Lu, T. Kodalle, D.-K. Lee, Y. Dong, B. W. Larson, S. Park, R. Zhang, M. J. Grotevent, T. Sverko, H. Zhu, Y.-K. Lin, C. M. Sutter-Fella, K. Zhu, M. C. Beard, V. Bulovic, and M. G. Bawendi, A 2D/3D Heterostructure Perovskite Solar Cell with a Phase-Pure and Pristine 2D Layer, Adv. Mater., 2025, 37, 2416672.

 

34. M. A. Haque, A. Grieder, S. P. Harvey, R. Brunecky, J. Y. Ye, B. Addison, J. Zhang, Y. Dong, Y. Xie, M. P. Hautzinger, H. H. Walpitage, K. Zhu, J. L. Blackburn, Z. V. Vardeny, D. B. Mitzi, J. J. Berry, S. R. Marder, Y. Ping, M. C. Beard, and J. M. Luther, Remote Chirality Transfer in Low-Dimensional Hybrid Metal Halide Semiconductors, Nat. Chem., 2025, 17, 29–37.

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33. Y. Dong, R. Zheng, D. Qian, T. H. Lee, H. L. Bristow, P. S. Tuladhar, H. Cha, and J. R. Durrant, Activationless Charge Transfer Governs Photocurrent Generation in Organic Photovoltaic Blends Independent of Energetic Offset. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 49, 33579–33586.

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32. M. Chen, Y. Dong, Y. Zhang, X. Zheng, G. McAndrews, Z. Dai, Q. Jiang, S. You, T. Liu, S. C. Harvey, K. Zhu, A. Andrews, V. Oliveto, A. Jackson, R. Witteck, L. Wheeler, N. Padture, P. Dyson, M. McGehee, M. Nazeeruddin, M. C. Beard, and J. M. Luther, Stress Engineering for Mitigating Thermal-Cycling Fatigue in Perovskite Photovoltaics, ACS Energy Lett., 2024, 9, 6, 2582–2589.

 

31. R. A. Pacalaj, Y. Dong, I. Ramirez, R. Mackenzie, J. Wu, M. Hosseini, P. Kaienburg, M. Riede, J. E. Heger, P. Muller-Buschbaum, E. Bittrich, M. Pfeiffer, and J. R. Durrant, From Generation to Collection – Impact of Deposition Temperature on Charge Carrier Dynamics of High Performance Vacuum-Processed Organic Solar Cells, Energy Environ. Sci., 2024, 17, 9215-9232.

 

30. M. P. Hautzinger, X. Pan, S. C. Hayden, J. Y. Ye, Q. Jiang, M. J. Wilson, A. Phillips, Y. Dong, E. K. Raulerson, I. A. Leahy, C.-S. Jiang, J. L. Blackburn, J. M. Luther, Y. Lu, K. Jungjohann, Z. V. Vardeny, J. J. Berry, K. Alberi, and M. C. Beard, Room temperature spin injection across a chiral-perovskite/III-V interface, Nature, 2024, 631, 307–312.

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29. A. Rana, S. Park, C. Labanti, F. Fang, S. Yun, Y. Dong, E. Yang, D. Nodari, N. Gasparini, J.-I. Park, J. Shin, D. Minami, K.-B. Park, J.-S. Kim, and J. R. Durrant, Octupole Moment Driven Free Charge Generation in Partially Chlorinated Subphthalocyanine for Planar Heterojunction Organic Photodetectors, Nat. Commun., 2024, 15, 5058.

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28. N. Li, Z. Shi, C. Fei, H. Jiao, M. Li, H. Gu, S. P. Harvey, Y. Dong, M. C. Beard, and J. Huang, Barrier Reinforcement for Enhanced Perovskite Solar Cell Stability under Reverse Bias, Nat. Energy, 2024, 9, 1264–1274.

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27. Z. Ni, L. Zhao, Z. Shi, A. Singh, J. Wiktor, M. O. Liedke, A. Wagner, Y. Dong, M. C. Beard, D. J. Keeble, and J. Huang, Identification and Suppression of Point Defects in Bromide Perovskite Single Crystals Enabling Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy, Adv. Mater., 2024, 36, 2406193.

 

26. C. Fei, A. Kuvayskaya, X. Shi, M. Wang, Z. Shi, H. Jiao, T. J. Silverman, M. Owen-Bellini, Y. Dong, Y. Xian, R. Scheidt, X. Wang, G. Yang, H. Gu, N. Li, C. J. Dolan, Z. JD Deng, D. N. Cakan, D. P. Fenning, Y. Yan, M. C. Beard, L. T. Schelhas, A. Sellinger, and Jinsong Huang, Reducing UV-Driven Degradation of p-i-n Perovskite Solar Cells using Strong-Bonding Hole Transport Layers. Science, 2024, 384, 1126-1134.

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25. R. Fei, M. P. Hautzinger, A. Rose, Y. Dong, I. Smalyukh, M. C. Beard, and J. van de Lagemaat, Controlling Exciton/Exciton Recombination in 2-D Perovskite Using Exciton–Polariton Coupling. J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2024, 15, 6, 1748–1754.

 

24. L. Zhao, Z. Shi, Y. Zhou, X. Wang, Y. Xian, Y. Dong, O. Reid, Z. Ni, M. Beard, Y. Yan, and J. Huang, Surface Defect Passivation Enabled Near Unity Charge Collection Efficiency in Bromide based Perovskite Gamma-Ray Spectrum Devices, Nat. Photon., 2024, 18, 250-257.

 

23. D. Qian, S. M. Pratik, Q. Liu, Y. Dong, H. Cha, J. Zhang, E. Pastor, R. Zhang, J. Yu, N. Gasparini, J. Wu, T. Zhang, V. Coropceanu, M. Zhang, J.-L. Bredas, F. Gao, and J. R. Durrant, Correlating the Hybridization of Local-Exciton and Charge-Transfer States with Charge Generation in Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Energy Mater., 2023, 13, 2301026.

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22. S. Y. Park, C. Labanti, R. A. Pacalaj, T. H. Lee, Y. Dong, Y-C Chin, J. Luke, D. Minami, S. Yun, J-I Park, F. Fang, K-B Park, J. R. Durrant, and J.-S. Kim, The State-of-the-Art Solution-Processed Single Component Organic Photodetectors Achieved by Strong Quenching of Intermolecular Emissive State and High Quadrupole Moment in Non-Fullerene Acceptors, Adv. Mater., 2023, 35, 2306655.

 

21. Y. Fu, T. H. Lee, Y-C. Chin, R. A. Pacalaj, C. Labanti, S. Y. Park, Y. Dong, H. W. Cho, J. Y. Kim, D. Minami, J. R. Durrant, and J.-S. Kim, Molecular Orientation-Dependent Energetic Shifts in Solution-Processed non-Fullerene Acceptors and their Impact on Organic Photovoltaic Performance, Nat. Commun., 2023, 14, 1870.

 

20. T.H. Lee, Y. Dong, R. A. Pacalaj, S. Y. Park, W. Xu, J.-S. Kim, and J. R. Durrant, Organic Planar Heterojunction Solar Cells and Photodetectors Tailored to the Exciton Diffusion Length Scale of a Non-Fullerene Acceptor, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2022, 32, 2208001.

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19. M. Maimaris, A. J. Pettipher, M. Azzouzi, D. J. Walke, X. Zheng, A. Gorodetsky, Y. Dong, P. S. Tuladhar, H. Crespo, J. Nelson, J. W. G. Tisch, and A. A. Bakulin, Sub-10-fs Observation of Bound Exciton Formation in Organic Optoelectronic Devices, Nat. Commun., 2022, 13, 4949.

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18. J. Kosco, S. Gonzalez-Carrero, C. T. Howells, T. Fei, Y. Dong, R. Sougrat, G. T. Harrison, Y. Firdaus, R. Sheelamanthula, B. Purushothaman, F. Moruzzi, W. Xu, L. Zhao, A. Basu, S. De Wolf, T. D. Anthopoulos, J. R. Durrant, and I. McCulloch, Generation of Long-Lived Charges in Organic Semiconductor Heterojunction Nanoparticles for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution, Nat. Energy, 2022, 7, 340–351.

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17. J. Wu, H. Cha, T. Du, Y. Dong, W. Xu, C-T. Lin, and J. R. Durrant, A Comparison of Charge Carrier Dynamics in Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells, Adv. Mater., 2021, 34, 2101833.

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16. M. Vasilopoulou, A. R. bin Mohd Yusoff, M. Daboczi, J. Conforto, A. E. X. Gavim, W. J. da Silva, A. G. Macedo, A. Soultati, G. Pistolis, F. K. Schneider, Y. Dong, P. Jacoutot, G. Rotas, J. Jang, G. C. Vougioukalakis, C. L. Chochos, J.-S. Kim, and N. Gasparini, High Efficiency Blue Organic Light-emitting Diodes with Below-Bandgap Electroluminescence, Nat. Commun., 2021, 12, 4868.

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15. A. A. Mohapatra, Y. Dong, P. Boregowda, A. Mohanty, A. Sadhanala, A. Sadhanala, A. Narayan, C. McNeill, J. R. Durrant, S. Patil, X. Jiao, and P. C. Parambil, Rational Design of Donor Acceptor Based Semiconducting Copolymers with High Dielectric Constant, J. Phys. Chem. C, 2021, 125, 12, 6886-6896.

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14. Y. Dong, H. Cha, H. L. Bristow, J. Lee, A. Kumar, P. S. Tuladhar, I. McCulloch, A. A. Bakulin, and J. R. Durrant, Correlating Exciton and Charge-transfer State Lifetimes with Material Energetics in Polymer:non-fullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2021, 143, 7599–7603.

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13. H. Cha, Y. Zheng, Y. Dong, H. H. Lee, J. Wu, H. Bristow, J. Zhang, H. K. H. Lee, W. C. Tsoi, A. A. Bakulin, I. McCulloch, and J. R. Durrant, Exciton and Charge Carrier Dynamics in Highly Crystalline PTQ10:IDIC Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Energy Mater., 2020, 10, 2001149.

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12. V. C. Nikolis, Y. Dong, J. Kublitski, J. Benduhn, X. Zheng, C. Huang, A. C. Y¨uzer, M. Ince, D. Spoltore, J. R. Durrant, A. A. Bakulin, and K. Vandewal, Field effect vs Driving Force: Charge Generation in Small-molecule Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Energy Mater., 2020, 10, 2002124.

 

11. S. Schraff, S. Maity, L. Schleeper, Y. Dong, S. Lucas, A. A. Bakulin, E. von Hauff, and F. Pammer, All-Conjugated Donor-Acceptor Block Copolymers featuring a Penta-fulvenyl-Polyisocyanide-Acceptor, Polym. Chem., 2020, 11, 1852–1859.

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10. Y. Dong, V. C. Nikolis, F. Talnack, Y.-C. Chin, J. Benduhn, G. Londi, J. Kublitski, X. Zheng, S. C. B. Mannsfeld, D. Spoltore, L. Muccioli, J. Li, X. Blase, D. Beljonne, J.-S. Kim, A. A. Bakulin, G. D’Avino, J. R. Durrant, and K.Vandewal, Orientation Dependent Molecular Electrostatics Drives Efficient Charge Generation in Homojunction Organic Solar Cells, Nat. Commun., 2020, 11, 4617.

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9. Z. Hamid, A. Wadsworth, E. Rezasoltani, S. Holliday, M. Azzouzi, M. Neophytou, A. A. Y. Guilbert, Y. Dong, M. S. Little, S. Mukherjee, A. A. Herzing, H. Bristow, R. J. Kline, D. M. DeLongchamp, A. A. Bakulin, J. R. Durrant, J. Nelson, and I. McCulloch, Influence of Polymer Aggregation and Liquid Immiscibility on Morphology Tuning by Varying Composition in PffBT4T-2DT/Nonfullerene Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Energy Mater., 2020, 10, 1903248.

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8. S. Corby, E. Pastor, Y. Dong, X. Zheng, L. Franc`as, M. Sachs, S. Selim, A. Kafizas, A. A. Bakulin, and J. R. Durrant, Charge Separation, Band-Bending, and Recombination in WO3 Photoanodes, J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 2019, 10, 5395–5401.

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7. S. D. Dimitrov, M. Azzouzi, J. Wu, J. Yao, Y. Dong, P. S. Tuladhar, B. C. Schroeder, E. R. Bittner, I. McCulloch, J. Nelson, and J. R. Durrant, Spectroscopic Investigation of the Effect of Microstructure and Energetic Offset on the Nature of Interfacial Charge Transfer States in Polymer: Fullerene Blends, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 4634–4643.

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6. W. Yang, R. Godin, H. Kasap, B. Moss, Y. Dong, S. A. J. Hillman, L. Steier, E. Reisner, and J. R. Durrant, Electron Accumulation Induces Efficiency Bottleneck for Hydrogen Production in Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 11219–11229.

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5. H. Cha, G. Fish, J. Luke, A. Alraddadi, H. H. Lee, W. Zhang, Y. Dong, S. Limbu, A. Wadsworth, I. P. Maria, L. Francas, H. L. Sou, T. Du, J. Kim, M. A. McLachlan, I. McCulloch, and J. R. Durrant, Suppression of Recombination Losses in Polymer:Nonfullerene Acceptor Organic Solar Cells due to Aggregation Dependence of Acceptor Electron Affinity, Adv. Energy Mater., 2019, 9, 1901254.

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4. D. Becker-Koch, B. Rivkin, F. Paulus, H. Xiang, Y. Dong, Z. Chen, A. A. Bakulin, and Y. Vaynzof, Probing Charge Transfer States at Organic and Hybrid Internal Interfaces by Photothermal Deflection Spectroscopy, J. Phys. Condens. Matter, 2019, 31, 124001.

 

3. A. Wadsworth, H. Brisow, Z. Hamid, M. Babics, N. Gasparini, C. W. Boyle, W. Zhang, Y. Dong, K. J. Thorley, M. Neophytou, R. S. Ashraf, J. R. Durrant, D. Baran, and I. McCulloch, End Group Tuning in Acceptor–Donor–Acceptor Nonfullerene Small Molecules for High Fill Factor Organic Solar Cells, Adv. Funct. Mater., 2019, 29, 1808429.

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2. Y. Dong, H. Cha, J. Zhang, E. Pastor, P. S. Tuladhar, I. McCulloch, J. R. Durrant, and A. A. Bakulin, The Binding Energy and Dynamics of Charge-transfer States in Organic Photovoltaics with Low Driving Force for Charge Separation, J. Chem. Phys., 2019, 150, 104704.

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1. H. Cha, C.-H. Tan, J. Wu, Y. Dong, W. Zhang, H. Chen, S. Rajaram, K. S. Narayan, I. McCulloch, and J. R. Durrant, An Analysis of the Factors Determining the Efficiency of Photocurrent Generation in Polymer:Nonfullerene Acceptor Solar Cells, Adv. Energy Mater., 2018, 8, 1801537.