Publications

R. Caballero, R. Domínguez, S. Shankar S., M. Privado, P. Prieto, P.de la Cruz, R.Singhal, G.D. Sharma, F. Langa. Effect of Meso- or β-Functionalization of Porphyrins on the Photovoltaic Properties of Organic Solar Cells. Solar RRL, 2024, 2400069 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400069

F. García Guijarro, M. Privado, S. Shankar S., J.Organero, P. de la Cruz, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa. All-Small-Molecule Ternary Organic Solar Cell with 16.35% Efficiency Enabled by Chlorinated Terminal Units. Solar RRL, 2024, 2400420. DOI: 10.1002/solr.202400420

M. Privado, S. Moles Quintero, P. de La Cruz, M. Barrejón, J. Babu, D. Casanova, F. Langa, J. Casado. Di-benzoquinone Cyclopentadithiophene Diradicaloids Show Spin-States Optical Transitions and Anomalous NIR Emission. Agewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024, in press. DOI: 10.1002/anie.202413988

F. Langa, P. de la Cruz, G.D. Sharma. Organic Solar Cells Based on Non-Fullerene Low Molecular Weight Organic Semiconductor Molecules. ChemSusChem, 2024, in press. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202400361

N. Casasnova, S. Shankar, S., M.J. Gómez-Escalonilla, P. de la Cruz, R. Singhal, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa. Improved Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells Based on A2-D-A1-D-A2 Nonfullerene Acceptors with a Benzoselenadiazole Core Induced by Higher Dipole Moment and Dielectric Constant. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2023, 6 (23), 12052–12063. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.3c02261

H. Uceta, A. Cabrera-Espinoza, M. Barrejón, J.G.Sanchez, E. Gutierrez-Fernandez, I. Kosta, J. Martín, S. Collavini, E. Martínez-Ferrero, F. Langa, J.L. Delgado. p-Type Functionalized Carbon Nanohorns and Nanotubes in Perovskite Solar Cells.  ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 45212-45228 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c07476.

F. Guijarro, P. de la Cruz,  K. Khandelwal, R. Singhal,  F. Langa, G. Sharma. Effects of halogenation on cyclopentadithiophenevinylene-based acceptors with excellent responses in binary organic solar cells. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, 15, 17, 21296–21305. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c01487

V. Cuesta, M. Vartanian, M. Kumar Singh, R.Singhal, P.de la Cruz, G.D. Sharma, F. Langa. Ambipolar behavior of a Cu(II)-porphyrin derivative in Ternary Organic Solar Cells. Solar RRL, 2023, 7, 201046 DOI: 10.1002/solr.202201046

S. Gielen, V. Cuesta Gomez, S. Brebels, T. J. Quill, J. Vanderspikken, L. Lutsen, P. de la Cruz, K. Vandewal, F. Langa, W. Maes. meso-Ethynyl-extended push-pull type porphyrins for near-infrared organic photodetectors, Journal of Materials Chemisty C, 2022, 10, 10853-10859 DOI:10.1039/d2tc00588c

V. Cuesta, M. K. Sing, E. Gutierrez-Fernandez, J. Martín, R. Dominguez, P. de la Cruz, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa Gold(III) Porphyrin Was Used as an Electron Acceptor for Efficient Organic Solar Cells, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2022, 14, 11708-11717. DOI:10.1021/acsami.1c22813

L. M. Arellano, H.B. Gobeze,  Y. Jang, M. Barrejón, C. Parejo, J. C. Alvarez, M. J. Gomez-Escalonilla, A. Sastre-Santos, F. D'Souza F. Langa. Formation and photoinduced electron transfer in porphyrin- and phthalocyanine- bearing N-doped grapheen hybrids synthesized via clic chemistry. Chemistry-A European Journal, 2022, e202200254 (1 to 10). DOI:10.1002/chem.202200254

M. Privado, A. Agrawal, P. de la Cruz, M.L. Kehtov, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa. Noncovalent Conformational Locks Enabling Efficient Nonfullerene Acceptors. Solar RRL, 2022, 6, 2100768 (1 to 9). DOI:10.1002/solr.202100768

M. Privado, F. G. Guijarro, P. de la Cruz, R. Singhal, F. Langa, G. Sharma. Fullerene/Non-fullerene Alloy for High-Performance All-Small-Molecule Organic Solar Cells, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2021, 13, 6461-6469. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c21844

M. Privado, H. Dahiya, P. de la Cruz, M. L.Kesthov, F. Langa, G. Sharma, A ternary organic solar cell with 15.6% efficiency containing a new DPP-based acceptor, Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021, 9, 16272-16281. DOI: 10.1039/d1tc02241e

R. Caballero, M. Barrejón, J. Cerdá, J. Aragó, S. Seetharaman, P. de la Cruz, E. Ortí, F. D'Souza, F. Langa, Self-Assembly-Directed Organization of a Fullerene-Bisporphyrin into Supramolecular Giant Donut Structures for Excited-State Charge Stabilization. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2021, 143, 11199-11208. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.1c05133. Open Access

R. Caballero, J. Calbo, J. Aragó, P. de la Cruz, E. Ortí, N. V. Tkachenko,  F. Langa. Enhanced electronic communication through a conjugated bridge in a porphyrin-fullerene donor-acceptor couple. Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021,  9, 10889-10898. DOI:10.1039/d1tc01160j

H. Dahiya, V. Cuesta, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, and G. D. Sharma. Highly efficient (15.09%) ternary solar cells constructed with a porphyrin as donor and two acceptors. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2021, 4, 5, 4498-4506. DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.1c00126

V. Cuesta, R. Singhal, P. de la Cruz, G. D. Sharma F. Langa. Reducing energy loss in organic solar cells by changing the central metal in metalloporphyrins. ChemSusChem, 2021, 14, 3439-3501. DOI: 10.1002/cssc.202002664

M. Privado, P.de la Cruz, P. Malhotra, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa. Influence of the dipole moment on the photovoltaic performance of  polymer solar cells employing non-fullerene small molecule acceptor. Solar Energy,  2021, 221, 393-40. DOI: 10.1016/j.solener.2021.04.049

   
R. Zaier, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, S.Ayachi. Optoelectronic properties of cyclopentadithiophene-based donor–acceptor copolymers as donors in bulk heterojunction organic solar cells: A theoretical study. Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids. 2020, 145, 109532. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpcs.2020.109532.

F. G. Guijarro, R. Caballero, P.de la Cruz, R. Singhal, F. Langa G. D. Sharma. Ternary all small molecule solar cell with two small molecule donors and Y6 non-fullerene acceptor with a power conversion efficiency over above 14% processed from a non-halogenated solvent. Solar RRL, 2020, 4, 1900471. DOI: 10.1002/solr.201900471,

R. Caballero, L. D. Servián, H.B. Gobeze, O. Fernandez-Delgado, L. Echegoyen, F. D’Souza, and F. Langa. Sc3N@Ih-C80 based donor-acceptor conjugate: Role of thiophene spacer in promoting fast charge separation. RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 1986-19866. DOI: 10.1039/d0ra04379f. Open Acess.

F. G. Guijarro, P. Malhotra, G. Gupta, R. Caballero, P.de la Cruz, R.Singhal, G. D. Sharma and F. Langa. The influence of the terminal acceptor and oligomer length on the photovoltaic properties of A-D-A small molecule donors Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2020, 8, 4763 - 4770. DOI: 10.1039/D0TC00154F

L. M. Arellano, H. B. Gobeze, M. J. Gómez-Escalonilla, J. L. G. Fierro, F. D’Souza and F. Langa. Triplet Photosensitizer-Nanotube Conjugates: Synthesis, Characterization and Photochemistry of Charge Stabilizing, Palladium Porphyrin/Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Conjugates. Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 9890-9898.  DOI:10.1039/D0NR02136A

 M. Privado, P. de la Cruz, G. Gupta, R. Singhal, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa. F. G. Guijarro, S. Medina Rivero, S. Gunaseka   Highly efficient ternary polymer solar cell with two non-fullerene acceptors, Solar Energy, 2020, 199, 530–537.DOI:10.1016/j.solener.2020.02.057 

I. Arretxea, R. Ponce Ortiz, R. Caballero, P.de la Cruz, F. Langa, L.Venkataraman, J. Casado. Synthesis and electronic Properties of Pyridine End-caps Cyclopentadithiophene-Vinylene Oligomers. RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 41264-41271. DOI: 10.1039/d0ra08220a Open Access

 C. Rodríguez-Seco, L. Cabau, M. Privado, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, G. D. Sharma, E. Palomares. Panchromatic Triple Organic Semiconductor Heterojunctions for Efficient Solar Cells, ACS Applied  Energy Materials.12, 12506–12516. 32020,DOI.:10.1021/acsaem.0c02469  

M. Privado, P. Malhotra, P. de la Cruz, R. Singhal, J. Cerdá, J.  Arago,  E. Orti,  G. D. Sharma,  F. Langa. Ternary Organic Solar Cell with a Near-Infrared Absorbing Selenophene-Diketopyrrolopyrrole-Based Nonfullerene Acceptor and an Efficiency above 10%. Solar RRL, 2020, 1900471. DOI:10.1002/solr.201900471. (Cover)

H. Uceta, M. Vizuete, J. R. Carrillo, M. Barrejon, J. L. García Fierro M. P. Prieto, F. Langa. Cycloaddition of Nitrile Oxides to Graphene: a Theoretical and Experimental Approach. Chemistry A European Journal, 2019, 25, 14644-14650. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201903105

M. Barrejon, L.M. Arellano, F. D’Souza, F. Langa. Bidirectional charge-transfer behavior in carbon-based hybrid nanomaterials.  Nanoscale, 2019, 11, 14978-14992. DOI: 10.1039/C9NR04388H

V. Cuesta, R.Singhal, P. de la Cruz, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa. Near-IR Absorbing D–A–D Zn-Porphyrin-Based Small-Molecule Donors for Organic Solar Cells with Low-Voltage Loss.  ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces , 2019, 11, 7216-7225.  DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b20917

C. Aharon, F. G. Guijarro, S. Medina Rivero, F.J. Ramirez, R. Caballero, J. Casado, F. Langa, S. Rozen. [All]-S,S-dioxide Oligo-Thienylenevinylenes: Synthesis and Structural/Electronic Shapes from Their Molecular Force Fields.  Chemistry A European Journal, 2019, 25, 464-468.  DOI: 10.1002/chem.201805245

V.Cuesta, M. Vartanian, P. Malhotra, S. Biswas, P. de la Cruz, G. D. Sharma and F. Langa. Increase in efficiency on using selenophene instead of thiophene in π-bridges for D-π-DPP-π-D organic solar cells.  Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2019, 7, 11886-11894.  DOI: 10.1039/C9TA02415H

H. B. Gobeze, L. M. Arellano, A. M. Gutiérrez-Vílchez, M. J. Gómez-Escalonilla, A. Sastre-Santos, F. Fernández-Lázaro, F. Langa, F. D’Souza. Occurrence of excited state charge separation in aa N-doped grapnehe-perylenediimide hybrid formed via «click» chemistry.  Nanoscale Advances, 2019, 1, 4009-4015.  DOI: 10.1039/C9NA00416E

L. M. Arellano, S. Yue, P. Atienzar, M. J. Gomez-Escalonilla, F. J. Ortega Higueruelo, J. L. G. Fierro, H. García, F. Langa. Modulating charge carrier density and mobility in doped graphene by covalent functionalization. Chemical Communications, 2019, 55, 9999-10002.  DOI: 10.1039/C9CC04571F

M. Privado, C. Rodriguez-Seco, R. Singhal, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, G. D. Sharma, E.Palomares.  Reduced Energy Offsets and Low Energy Losses Lead to Efficient (10% at 1 sun) Ternary Organic Solar Cells.  ACS Energy Letters, 2018, 10, 12418-2424.  DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.8b01400

J.P. Martinez, M. Vizuete, L. M. Arellano, A. Poater, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, F. Langa, M. Solá.  Regioselectivity of the Pauson-Khand reaction in single-single walled carbon nanotubes.  Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 15078-15089.  DOI: 10.1039/C8NR03480J

P. Mayorga Burrezo, C. Franco, R. Caballero, M. Mas-Torrent, F. Langa, J.T. López Navarrete, C. Rovira, J. Veciana, J. Casado.  Oligothienylenevinylene Polarons and Bipolarons Confined Between Hostile Electron Accepting Perchlorotriphenylmethyl Radicals.  Chemistry A European Journal, 2018, 24, 3776-3783.  DOI:10.1002/chem.201705080

L. M. Arellano, L. Martín-Gomis, H.B. Gobeze, D.Molina, C. Hermosa, M.J. Gómez-Escalonilla, J. L. G. Fierro, Á. Sastre-Santos, F. D’Souza, and F. Langa.  Edge-on and face-on functionalized Pc on enriched semiconducting SWCNT hybrids.  Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 5205-5213.  DOI: 10.1039/C8NR00262B

M. Vartanian, R. Singhal, P. de la Cruz, S. Biswas, G. D. Sharma, F. Langa.  Low Energy Loss of 0.57 eV and High Efficiency of 8.80% in Porphyrin-Based BHJ Solar Cells. ACS Applied Energy Materials, 2018, 1, 1304-1315.  DOI: 10.1021/acsaem.8b00024

M. Privado, P. de la Cruz, S. Biswas, R. Singhal, G. D. Sharma and F. Langa. Non-fullerene all small molecule solar cell constructed with a diketopyrrolopyrrole-based acceptor having a photovoltaic performance of 9.14% and energy loss of 0.54 eV.  Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018, 6, 11714-11724.  DOI: 10.1039/C8TA02633E

M. Vartanian, P.de la Cruz, S. Biswas, G. D. Sharma and F. Langa. Panchromatic Ternary Organic Solar Cells with 9.44% Efficiency Incorporating Porphyrin-based Donors.
Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 12100-12108.  DOI: 10.1039/C8NR02856G

F. J. Ortega-Higueruelo F.Langa.  Selective Screening of Biological Thiols by Means of an Unreported Magenta Interaction and Evaluation Using Smartphones.ACS Omega, 2018, 3, 6617-6623. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00783

J.P. Martínez, M.Vizuete, L.M. Arellano, A.Poater F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, F. Langa and M. Solá. Regioselectivity of the Pauson–Khand reaction in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale, 2018, 10, 15078-15089. DOI: 10.1039/C8NR03480J

M. Barrejón, L.M. Arellano, H.B. Gobeze, M. J. Gomez-Escalonilla, J. L. G. Fierro, F. D’Souza, F. Langa. N-Doped Graphene/C60 covalent hybrid as new material for energy harvesting applications. Chemical Science, 2018, 9, 8221-8227 . DOI: 10.1039/C8SC02013B

M. Vartanian, R. Singhal, P. de la Cruz, G. D. Sharma. F.Langa. Ni-Porphyrin-based small molecule for efficient organic solar cells (49.0%) with a high open circuit voltage of over 1.0 V and low energy loss. Chemical Communications, 2018, 54, 14144-14147 . DOI: 10.1039/c8cc08329k

Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Rocío Domínguez, José L. Zafra, Ted M. Pappenfus, Pilar de la Cruz, Lorena Welte, Daron E. Janzen, Juan T. López Navarrete, Fernando Langa, Juan Casado.Oligomers of Cyclopentadithiophene-Vinylene in Aromatic and Quinoidal Versions and Charged Species with Intermediate Forms. Chemical Science, 2017, 8, 8106-8114. DOI:10.1039/C7SC02756G

Elena Sánchez-Tirado, L.M. Arellano, A. González-Cortés, P. Yáñez-Sedeño, F. Langa, J.M. Pingarrón. Viologen-functionalized single-walled carbon nanotubes as carrier nanotags for electrochemical immunosensing. Biosensors and Bioelectronics , 2017, 98, 240-247. DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2017.06.063

John Mohanraj, Andrea Barbieri, Nicola Armaroli, Maria Vizuete, Fernando Langa, Béatrice Delavaux-Nicot, Maida Vartanian, Julien Iehl, Uwe Hahn and Jean-François Nierengarten. Tuning photoinduced energy- and electron-transfer in Zn(II)-Porphyrin / Fullerene dyads with interchromophoric distance up to 2.6 nm. Chemistry A European Journal, 2017, 23, 1 – 14. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201701668

 María Privado, Virginia Cuesta, Pilar de la Cruz, M. L. Keshtov, Ganesh D. Sharma, Fernando Langa. Tuning the optoelectronic properties for high-efficiency (>7.5%) all small molecule and fullerene-free solar cells. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2017, 5, 14259-14269 DOI: 10.1039/C7TA03815A

Rocío Domínguez, Gisela L. Schulz, Pilar de la Cruz, Peter Bäuerle, Fernando Langa. Cyclopentadithiophene-based Co-oligomers for Solution-processed Organic Solar Cells. Dyes & Pigments, 2017,43, 112-122. DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2017.04.029

Luis M. Arellano, Myriam Barrejón, Habtom B. Gobeze, María J. Gómez-Escalonilla, José Luis G. Fierro, Francis D’Souza and Fernando Langa. Charge Stabilizing Tris(triphenylamine)-Zinc porphyrin-Carbon Nanotube Hybrids: Syntheses, Characterization and Excited State Charge Transfer Studies Nanoscale, 2017, 9, 7551-7558. DOI: 10.1039/C7NR00758B

Rocío Domínguez, Núria F. Montcada, Pilar de la Cruz, Emilio Palomares Fernando Langa. Pyrrolo[3,2-b]pyrrole as Electron-Donor Central Core for Solution-Processed Organic Solar Cells ChemPlusChem, 2017, 82, 1-10. DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201700158

Susana Arrechea, Ana Aljarilla, Pilar de la Cruz, Manish Kumar Singh, Ganesh D. Sharma, Fernando Langa Langa. New cyclopentadithiophene (CDT) linked porphyrin donors with different end capping acceptors for efficient small molecule organic solar cells Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017, 5, 4742-4751. DOI: 10.1039/C7TC00812K

María Privado, Virginia Cuesta, Pilar de la Cruz, Mukhamed. L Keshtov, Rahul Singhal, Ganesh D. Sharma and Fernando Langa. Efficient polymer solar cells with a high open-circuit voltage containing a DPP-based non–fullerene acceptor core end-capped with rhodanine units ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, 2017, 9, 11739–11748. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b15717

Esther Sánchez-Tirado; Coral Salvo; Araceli González-Cortés; Paloma Yañez-Sedeño, Fernando Langa; José M Pingarrón. Electrochemical immunosensor for simultaneous determination of interleukin-1 beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha in serum and saliva using dual screen printed electrodes modified with functionalized double-walled carbon nanotubes Analytica Chimica Acta, 2017, 959, 66-73. DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2016.12.034

Rocío Domínguez, Núria F. Montcada, Pilar de la Cruz, Emilio Palomares, Fernando Langa. Cyclopentadithiophene Organic Core in Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells: Morphological Control of Carrier Recombination. Phys Chem Chem Phys , 2017, 19, 3640–3648 DOI: 10.1039/C6CP08166E

Virginia Cuesta, Maida Vartanian, Pilar de la Cruz, Rahul Singhal, Ganesh D. Sharma and Fernando Langa. Comparative Study on the Photovoltaic Characteristics of A–D–A and D–A–D Molecules Based on Zn-Porphyrin; a D–A–D Molecule with Over 8.0% Efficiency. Journal of Materials Chemistry A , 2017, 5, 1057-1065. OI:10.1039/C6TA09408B.

Esther Sánchez-Tirado; Araceli González-Cortés; Masako Yudasaka; Sumio Iijima; Fernando Langa; José M Pingarrón. Electrochemical immunosensor for the determination of 8-isoprostane aging biomarker using carbon nanohorns-modified disposable electrodes. Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry , 2017, 793, 197-202. DOI: 10.1016/j.jelechem.2016.11.003.

Carlos Franco, Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Vega Lloveras, Rubén Caballero, Isaac Alcón, Stefan Bromley, Marta Mas-Torrent, Fernando Langa, Juan T. López-Navarrete, Concepciò Rovira, Juan Casado, Jaume Veciana. On the Operative Mechanisms of Hole Assisted Negative Charge Motion in Ground States of Radical-anion Molecular Wires. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2017, 139, 686–692. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.6b08649.

Gabriela Moran, Susana Arrechea, Pilar de la Cruz, Virginia Cuesta, Subhayan Biswas, Emilio Palomares, Ganesh D. Sharma and Fernando. CuSCN as selective contact in solution-processed small-molecule organic solar cells leads to over 7% efficient porphyrin-based device. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2016, 4, 11009-11022. DOI:10.1039/C6TA04369K.

Núria F. Montcada, Susana Arrechea, Agustín Molina-Ontoria, Ana I. Aljarilla, Pilar de la Cruz, Luis Echegoyen, Emilio Palomares and Fernando Langa. High Photo-Current in Solution Processed Organic Solar Cells Based on Porphyrin Core A-π-D-π-A as Electron Donor Material Organic Electronics, 2016, 38, 330-336. DOI:10.1016/j.orgel.2016.09.003.

Myriam Barrejón, María J. Gómez-Escalonilla, José Luis G. Fierro, Pilar Prieto, Jose R. Carrillo, Antonio M.Rodríguez, Gonzalo Abellán, Mª Cruz López-Escalante, Mercedes Gabás, Teodomiro López-Navarrete, and Fernando Langa Modulation of the exfoliated graphene work function through nitrile imines cycloaddition. Phys Chem Chem Phys, 2016, 18, 29582-29590. DOI: 10.1039/C6CP05285A.

Virginia Cuesta, Maxence Urbani, Pilar de la Cruz, Jean-François Nierengarten and Fernando Langa. Regioselective preparation of a bis-pyrazolinofullerene by a macrocyclization reaction. Chem Commun, 2016, 52, 13205-13208. DOI: 10.1039/C6CC06549J.

Susana Arrechea, Ana Aljarilla, Pilar de la Cruz, Emilio Palomares, Ganesh D. Sharma, Fernando Langa Efficiency Improvement Using Bis(trifluoromethane) Sulfonamide Lithium Salt as Chemical Additive in Porphyrin Based Organic Solar Cells Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 17953-17962. DOI: 10.1039/C6NR06374H.

Myriam Barrejón, Habtom B. Gobeze, María J. Gómez-Escalonilla, José Luis G. Fierro, Minfang Zhang, Masako Yudasaka, Sumio Iijima, Francis D’Souza and Fernando Langa. All-carbon based SWCNT-C60 donor-acceptor nanoensembles connected by poly(phenylene ethynylene) spacers: Synthesis, characterization and excited state charge transfer interactions. Nanoscale, 2016, 8, 14716-14724. DOI: 10.1039/c6nr02829b.

Sachetan M. Tuladhar, Mohammed Azzouzi, Florent Delval, Jizhong Yao, Anne A. Y. Guilbert, Thomas Kirchartz, Jenny Nelson, Nuria F. Montcada, Rocio Dominguez, Fernando Langa, Emilio Palomares, Low Open-Circuit Voltage Loss in Solution Processed Small Molecule Organic Solar Cells ACS Energy Letters, 2016, 1, 302-308. DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.6b00162.

Miriam Peña-Álvarez, Elena del Corro, Fernando Langa, Valentin G. Baonza, Mercedes Taravillo, Morphological changes in carbon nanohorns under stress: a combined Raman spectroscopy and TEM study. RSC Adv, 2016, 6, 49543-49550. DOI: 10.1039/C5RA27162B

Maxence Urbani, María Sánchez Carballo, Sangeeta Amit Kumar, Michael Grätzel, Mohammad K. Nazeeruddin, Fernando Langa and Tomás Torres Heteroleptic Ru(II)-bipyridine complexes based on hexyl-, hexylthioether- and hexyloxy- substituted thienylenevinylenes and their application in DSSC PhysChemChemPhys, 2016, 18, 11901-11908. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP07753B.

Juan Pablo Martínez, Fernando Langa, F. Matthias Bickelhaupt, Sílvia Osuna and Miquel Solà [4+2] and [2+2] Cycloadditions of Benzyne to C60, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes, and Graphene: The Effect of the Curvature Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2016, 120, 1716-1726. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b11499.

María Vizuete, María J. Gómez-Escalonilla, Myriam Barrejón, José Luis G. Fierro, Minfang Zhang, Masako Yudasaka, Sumio Iijima, Pedro Atienzar, Hermenegildo García and Fernando Langa. Synthesis, Characterization and Photoinduced Charge Separation of Carbon Nanohorn-Oligothienylenevinylene Hybrids PhysChemChemPhys, 2016, 18, 1828-1837. DOI: 10.1039/C5CP05734E.

Susana Arrechea, John N. Clifford, Laia Pelleja, Ana Aljarilla, Pilar de la Cruz, Emilio Palomares and Fernando Langa. Charge Recombination Losses in Thiophene Substituted Porphyrin Dye Sensitized Solar Cells. Dyes & Pigments, 2016, 126, 147-153. DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2015.11.002.

L. M. Arellano, L. Martín-Gomis, H. B. Gobeze, M. Barrejón, D. Molina, M.J. Gómez-Escalonilla, J.L. G. Fierro, M. Zhang, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, F. D’Souza, F. Langa and Á.Sastre-Santos. Peripheral versus axial substituted phthalocyanine-double-walled carbon nanotube hybrids as light harvesting systems Journal of Material Chemistry C, 3, 10215-10224. DOI: 10.1039/c5tc02114f.

M. Barrejón, A. Primo, M.J. Gómez-Escalonilla, J. L.García-Fierro, H. García and F. Langa. Covalent functionalization of N-doped graphene by N-alkylation. Chemical. Communications , 2015, 51,16916-16919. DOI: 10.1039/c5cc06285c.

I. Ojeda, M. Barrejón, L. M. Arellano, A. González-Cortés, P. Yáñez-Sedeño, F. Langa, J. M. Pingarrón. Grafted-double walled carbon nanotubes as electrochemical platforms for immobilization of antibodies using a metallic-complex chelating polymer: Application to the determination of adiponectin cytokine in serum. Biosensors and Bioelectronics , 2015, 75, 24-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2015.06.001.

S. Arrechea, A. Molina-Ontoria, A.I. Aljarilla, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, L. Echegoyen. New acceptor-porphyrin-aceptor systems as p-type conductors for solar cell applications. Dyes and Pigments, 2015, 121, 109-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.dyepig.2015.04.037.

M. Barrejon, S. Pla, I. Berlanga, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, L. Martin-Gomis, J.L. Garcia-Fierro, M. Zhang, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, H.B. Gobeze, F. D`Souza, A. Sastre-Santos, F. Langa. Peripheral versus Axial Substituted Phthalocyanines-Double- Walled Carbon Nanotubes Hybrids as Light Harvesting Systems. Journal of Material Chemistry C, 2015, 3, 4960-4969. DOI: 10.1039/c5tc00425j

I. Ojeda, M. Barrejon, L.M. Arellano, A. Gonzalez-Cortes, P. Yañez Sedeño, F. Langa, J.M. Pingarrón. Grafted-double walled carbon nanotubes as electrochemical platforms for immobilization of antibodies using a metallic-complex chelating polymer: Application to the determination of adiponectin cytokine in serum. Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 2015, 75, 24-29. DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2015.06.001

B. Pelado, F. Abou-Chahine, J. Calbo, R. Caballero, P de la Cruz, J.M. Junquera Hernandez, E. Orti, N. Tkachenko, F. Langa. Role of the Bridge in photoinduced electron transfer of Porphyrin-Fullerene dyads. Chemistry A European Journal, 2015, 21, 5814-5825. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201406514

B. Pelado, J. Coro, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa. Free-base porphyrin and [60]fullerene linked by oligomeric ethylenedioxythienylenevinylene bridge. Journal of Porphyrins and Phtalocyanines, 2015, 19, 404-410.DOI: 10.1142/S1088424615500261

N. F. Montcada, R. Dominguez, B. Pelado, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, E. Palomares. High Photocurrent in Oligo-thienylenevinylene Based Small Molecule Solar Cells Having 4.9% Solar-to-Electrical Energy Conversion. Journal of Materials Chemistry A. 2015, 3, 11340-11348. DOI: 10.1039/C5TA01632K

P. Mayorga Burrezo, B. Pelado, R. Ponce Ortiz, P. de la Cruz, J.T. Lopez Navarrete, F. Langa, J. Casado. Robust EthylenedioxyThiophene-Vinylene Oligomers From Fragile Thiophene-Vinylene Cores: Synthesis and Optical, Chemical and Electrochemical Properties on Multicharged Shapes. Chemistry A European Journal,, 2015, 21, 1713-1725. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201404838

M. Barrejon, M. Vizuete, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, J.L.G. Fierro, I. Berlanga, F. Zamora, G. Abellan, P. Atienzar, J.F. Nierengarten, H. Garcia, F. Langa. A photoresponsive graphene oxide-C60 conjugate. Chemical Communications, 2014, 50, 9053-9055. DOI: 10.1039/c3cc49589b

L. Pelleja, R. Dominguez, A. Aljarilla, J.N. Clifford, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, E. Palomares. Use of Vinyl and Ethynyl Molecular Bridges in Organic Dyes for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells: Implications in Device Performance. ChemElectroChem, 2014, 1, 1126-1129. DOI: 10.1002/celc.201402031

I. Ojeda, B. Garcinuño, M. Moreno-Guzman, A. Gonzalez-Cortes, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, F. Langa, P. Yanez-Sedeno, J. Pingarron. Carbon nanohorns as scaffold for the construction of disposable electrochemical immunosensing platforms. Application to the determination of fibrinogen in human plasma and urine. Analitical Chemistry, 2014, DOI:10.1021/ac501681n

M. Vizuete, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, J.L.G. Fierro, K. Ohkubo, S. Fukuzumi, M. Irie, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, J.F. Nierengarten, F. Langa. Photoinduced electron transfer in a carbon nanohorn–C60 conjugate. Chemical Science, 2014, 5, 2072-2080. DOI: 10.1039/C3SC53342E

F. Oswald, D.M. Shafiqul, Islam, M.E. El-Khouly, Y. Araki, R. Caballero, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa. Photoinduced electron transfer of zinc porphyrin–oligo(thienylenevinylene)–fullerene[60] triads; thienylenevinylenes as efficient molecular wires. Phys Chem Chem Phys. 2014, 16, 2443-2451. DOI: 10.1039/C3CP54280G

M. Vizuete, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, J.L.G. Fierro, P. Atienzar, H. Garcia, F. Langa, Double-Wall Carbon Nanotube–Porphyrin Supramolecular Hybrid: Synthesis and Photophysical Studies, ChemPhysChem, 2014, 15, 100-108. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201300839

C. Diaz-Paniagua, A. Urbina, V. Garcia-Sakai, T. Seydel, J. Padilla, J. Abad, R. Garcia-Valverde. N. Espinosa, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, F. Langa, F. Batallan. Molecular dynamics of solutions of poly-3-octyl-thiophene and functionalized single wall carbon nanotubes studied by neutron scattering Chemical Physics, 2013, 427, 129-141. DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.08.004

N.F. Montcada, B. Pelado, A. Viterisi, J. Coro, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, E. Palomares. High open circuit voltage in efficient thiophene-Based Small Molecule Solution Processed organic solar cell. Organic Electronics, 2013, 14, 2826-2832. DOI: 10.1016/j.orgel.2013.08.004

A. Aljarilla, J.N. Clifford, L. Pelleja, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, E. Palomares. Effect of dye loading on dye sensitized solar cell performance based on iodide/triiodide and cobalt electrolytes. Journal of Material Chemistry A, 2013, 1, 13640-13647. DOI: 10.1039/c3ta12955a

A. Aljarilla, C. Herrero-Ponce, P. Atienzar, S. Alvarado, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, H. Garcia. Push-Pull Triphenylamine based chromophores as photosensitizers and electron donors for molecular solar cells. Tetrahedron, 2013, 69, 6875-6883. DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2013.05.137

A. Criado, M. Vizuete, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, S. Garcia-Rodriguez, J. L. G. Fierro, A. Cobas, D. Peña, E. Guitian, F. Langa, Efficient Cycloaddition of Arynes to Carbon Nanotubes under Microwave Irradiation. Carbon, 2013, 63, 140-148. DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2013.06.064

M. Urbani, E.M. Barea, R. Trevisan, A. Aljarilla, P. de la Cruz, J. Bisquert, F. Langa. A star-shaped sensitizer based on thienylenevinylene for dye sensitized solar cells. Tetrahedron Letters, 2013, 54, 431-435. DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.11.041

A. Aljarilla, L. Lopez-Arroyo, P. de la Cruz, F. Oswald, T.B. Meyer. F. Langa, Organic Dyes incorporation Oligothienylenevinylene for efficient dye-sensitized solar cells. Organic Letters, 2012, 14, 5732-5735. DOI: 10.1021/ol302738k    

B. Pelado, P. de la Cruz, V. Gonzalez-Pedro, E.M. Barea, F. Langa. Effect of the bridge substitution on the efficiency of the dye-sensitized solar cells. Tetrahedron Letters, 2012, 53, 6665-6669. DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2012.09.091    

M. Vizuete, M. J. Gomez Escalonilla, S. Garcia-Rodriguez, J. L. G. Fierro, P. Atienzar, H. Garcia, F. Langa. Photochemical Evidence of Electronic Interwall Communication in Double-Wall Carbon Nanotubes. Chemistry A European Journal, 2012, 16922-16930. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201202000

S. Rodriguez Gonzalez, R. Gonzalez Cano, M.C. Ruiz Delgado, R. Caballero, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa. J.T. Lopez Navarrete, J. Casado, Delocalization-to-Localization Charge TRansition in Long Diferrocenyl-Oligothienylene-Vinylene Molecular Wires By Raman Spectroscopy. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012, 134, 5675-5681. DOI: 10.1021/ja3005607

M. Vizuete, M. Barrejon, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, F. Langa. Endohedral and Exohedral Hybrids involving Fullerenes and Carbon nanotubes. Nanoscale, 2012, 4, 4370-4381. DOI: 10.1039/c2nr30376k

M. Urbani, K. Okubo, S.D.M. Islam, S. Fukuzumi, F. Langa. Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer in Phenylethynyl-Bridged Zinc Porphyrin-Oligothienylene Vinylene-C60 Ensembles. Chemistry A European Journal, 2012, 18, 7473-7485. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201102260

R. Caballero, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa. Basic Principles of the Chemical Reactivity of Fullerenes. Fullerenes: Principles and Applications, 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry. Cambridge (Great Britain). 66-124.

F. Langa, J.F. Nierengarten (Editors). Fullerenes: Principles and Applications. 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry. Cambridge (Great Britain)

F. Langa, P. de la Cruz, Application of Microwave Irradiation in Carbon Nanostructures, Microwaves in Organic Synthesis, Third edtion, 2012, Wiley-VCH. Winheim (Germany)

M. Vizuete, M. Barrejon, M.J. Gomez-Escalonilla, F. Langa. Hybrids involving Fullerenes and Carbon Nanotubes. Handbook of Carbon Nanomaterials, 2012, World Scientific Publishing. New Jersey USA, vol. 4. 217-243

K. Winkler, F. Langa, M. Wysocka-Zolopa, R. Caballero. Formation and Properties of Electroactive Fullerene Based Films with a Covalently Attached Ferrocenyl Redox Probe. Electrochimica Acta, 2011, 56, 5566-5574. DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2011.03.121

M. Urbani, B. Pelado, P. de la Cruz, K. Yamanaka, O. Ito, F. Langa. Synthesis and photoinduced intramolecular Processes of C60-Oligothienylenevinylene-C70 Dumbbell Molecule, Chemistry A European Journal, 2011, 17, 5432-5444. DOI: 10.1002/chem.201002318

J. L. Delgado, S. Filipone, A. Martin-Domenech, M. Altable, E. Maroto, F. Langa, N. Martin, R. Martinez-Alvarez. Study of thermal and electrochemical retro-cycloaddition reactions of substituted pyrrolidino- and pyrazolinofullerenes by mass spectrometry. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 2011, 22, 557-567. DOI: 10.1007/s13361-010-0063-y

E. M. Barea, R. Caballero, L. Lopez-Arroyo, A. Guerrero, P. de la Cruz, F. Langa, J. Bisquert. Triplication of the photocurrent in dye solar cells by increasing the enlongation of the conjugation in porphyrin sensitizers. ChemPhysChem, 2011, 12, 961-965. DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201000958

J. L. Delgado, N. Martin, P. De la Cruz, F. Langa. Pyrazolinofullerenes: A less Know Type of Highly Versatile Fullerene Derivatives. Chemical Society Reviews, 2011, 40, 5232-5241. DOI: 10.1039/c1cs15105c

M Vizuete, M.J. Gomez-Escalnilla, J.L.G. Fierro, M. Yudasaka, S. Iijima, M.Vartanian, J. Iehl, J.F. Nierengarten, F. Langa, A soluble hybrid material combining carbon nanohorns and C60. Chemical Communications, 2011, 47, 12771-12773. DOI: 10.1039/c1cc15446j

S. G. Esteban, P. de la Cruz, A. Aljarilla, L. M. Arellano, and F. Langa, Panchromatic Push-Pull Chromophores based on Triphenylamine as Donors for Molecular Solar Cells. Organic Letters, 2011, 13, 5362–5365. DOI: 10.1021/ol202242j r2011