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Wall of Threads

Textile Electronics

Created with Reactive Vapor Deposition

Reactive Vapor Deposition
WeDefyConvention

We Defy Convention

Using Chemistry

Smart Shirt

Smart Garments

To Monitor Health, Regulate Temperature, Interact with Machines

Reactive Vapor Deposition

Reactive Vapor Deposition

Ultrathin Functional Coatings on Fragile and Complex Surfaces

Thermoelectric Garments

Thermoelectric Garments

Harvesting Body heat with Fabric Thermopiles

Wearable Charge Storage

Garment Integrated Charge Storage

Embroidered Fiber-Based Microsupercapacitors

Fabric Heaters

Cotton Joule Heaters

Garments for Active Heating

Fabric Electrodes


Fabric Electrodes

ECG Enabled Garments

Woven Electronics

Woven Electronics

Woven Triboelectric Fabrics

Posture and Activity Tracking

Detecting Posture and Activity

Sleep Posture Tracking

Embroidered Electrochemical Transistor Array

Fiber Based Biosensors

Electrochemical Transistors and Biosensors for Biomarker Detection

Crystals

Crystal Growth

Tuning OptoElectronic Properties and Exciton Transport

Photochromic Image

Photochromes

Beating the Fundamental Laws of Diffraction using Photochromes
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Fabric Solar Cell

Solar Harvesting Fabrics

Monolithically Integated Diodes on Prewoven Fabrics

Dyes

Chromophore Synthesis

New Monomers and Chemistries for Reactive Vapor Deposition

Test Fixture

Equipment and Facilities

Custom-Designed Fabrication and Testing Facilities Housed in a Beautiful New Buidling

Our Research

We find new ways to do chemistry and build smart garments and/or flexible electronics.

Reactive Vapor Deposition

A suite of vapor-phase polymerization reactions performed inside reduced-pressure hot wall reactors, collectively termed RVD, are the enabling methods we use to build novel devices. In RVD, polymer films are formed directly on the substrate of interest as vapors of a chemical agent and precursor (or monomer) are introduced into an evacuated reactor chamber simultaneously. This method allows for conformal coating of rough surfaces, with features resolvable down to 100-200 nm. The modularity of RVD ensures that careful monomer choice will lead to the in situ film growth of a host of functional polymers displaying varied properties.

RVD

Our current toolbox of RVD reactors enable the deposition of chemically well-defined films of persistently-doped conducting polymers, semiconducting polymers, and densely-crosslinked poly(acrylates) on arbitrary substrates with micro- and nano-scale features. We are working to expand our toolbox to include n-type conjugated polymer films and conductive polyradical films.

Monolithically-Integrated Textile Electronics

Textiles are 3D microscaffolds displaying roughness and texture on multiple length scales.
3D Scaffold

We develop conformal coating techniques to grow micro/nanostructured devices directly from the textile surface.
We perform a small variety of vapor phase polymerization reactions to create films of conjugated polymers inside a reduced-pressure hot wall reactor.
RVD

One such example is the oxidative chemical vapor deposition of EDOT to create PEDOT-Cl.This process creates stable, conformal films of a conducting polymer--PEDOT-Cl, in this case-- on arbitrary substrates, including various prewoven textiles.

PEDOT-Cl coated Fabrics

We use this vapor-phase deposition method to transform ordinary textiles into functional electronic devices. Our approach also minimizes the tremendous water pollution caused by traditional textile processing.
Some of our products are described below.

Fabric / Thread Electrodes

We create highly-conductive fabrics and threads that act as electrodes and interconnects while also being stable to sweat, laundering, ironing, stretching/tugging and rubbing.
Conductive Textiles

Smart Garments

We seamlessly integrate electronic components, such as transistors, pressure sensors, heating elements, diodes, thermopiles, and supercapacitors, into garments by conformally coating threads and fabrics with multifunctional polymer and hybrid thin films.
Garment Heart Rate Monitor

Activity-Tracking Textiles

We invented fabric pressure sensors to detect joint motion, gait and posture during various activities.


Triboelectric Textiles

Energy Harvesting Textiles

We transform commercial textiles into solar fabrics and fabric thermopiles for portable energy harvesting.
Fabric Solar Cell
Wearable TEG

Transparent Organic Photovoltaic Devices and Flexible, Large-Area Arrays

New Materials for Visible-Transparent Electrodes, Nanostructured Optics to Optimize Light Collection,
and Circuit Design for Solar Cell Arrays Capable of Diffuse-Light Operation
TransparentTransparent

Directing Crystal Orientation and Intermolecular Packing in Thin Films

Crystal orientation in organic thin films is one of the key parameters that determines interfacial energetics, absorption profiles and cross sections, exciton diffusion lengths, exciton dissociation efficiencies, and charge collection efficiencies. Significant excitonic and electronic changes, including huge modulations in absorption profiles, total %light absorbed, Fermi levels, band edge values and CT state energies can be observed when crystals are grown on different surfaces, such as ITO and graphene. Such changes can potentially increase the theoretical Voc expected for photovoltaic devices incorporating these templated films.

Xtal Porn

Subdiffraction Optical Lithography Enabled by Photochromes

Currently, nanomanufacturing is achieved via fast pattern-replication (nanoimprint lithography, optical-projection lithography, etc.) and is stymied by extremely slow pattern generation (scanning-electron-beam lithography). In other words, the time it takes to generate a new pattern is orders of magnitude longer than what it takes to simply replicate one.

Light offers significant advantages over charged particles for pattern generation. However, it suffers from one Achilles heel - diffraction. In the far field, the smallest focused spot that can be generated with light is limited to approximately half the wavelength.This, so called far-field diffraction limit or the Abbé limit, effectively prevents the use of long-wavelength photons (greater than 300nm) from patterning nanostructures less than 100 nm.

We have shown that optics, when combined with novel photochemistry, can result in deep sub-wavelength patterning with speeds that are far higher than with conventional approaches.

AMOL

Our idea is to record the nanoscale pattern in an ultra-thin or monolayer film comprised of photochromic molecules. These molecules undergo photoswitching between two isomeric forms, A and B. When isomer A absorbs a photon of wavelength 1, it turns into isomer B. When B absorbs photon of wavelength 2, it turns back to A. The binary nature of the switching process ensures that sub-diffraction-limited regions of B interspersed in A are formed.

In addition, we design the photochromic molecules such that B can be selectively converted in an irreversible manner to form C via a “locking” step, which allows us to create 3D patterns. These advances in pattern generation, when combined with continuous replication technologies such as roll-to-roll nanoimprint lithography can enable a new paradigm in high throughput top-down nanomanufacturing. In other words, organic photochromes can change the traditional process flow currently used to manufacture electronics!

About Trisha L. Andrew

Trisha L. Andrew

Trisha L. Andrew
Principal Investigator

tandrew[at]umass.edu

Professor Trisha L. Andrew is a Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science & Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She directs the Wearable Electronics Lab, a transdisciplinary research team creating embedded (opto)electronic systems on uncommon platforms by leveraging functional polymer coatings formed by a suite of reactive deposition techniques developed in our lab.

Trisha started her career as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, after receiving her Ph.D. from MIT in 2011. She has unconventional training in the disparate fields of synthetic organic chemistry and microelectronic device fabrication that inform her unique problem-solving skills and varied research interests. Trisha is a David and Lucille Packard Foundation Fellow, a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow, an Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator, a L’Oréal USA For Women in Science Fellow, a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award winner, and was named as one Forbes’ magazine “30 Under 30” Innovators in Energy.

Here are some articles written about Trisha over the past few years.


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Our Team

Ruolan Fan

Ruolan Fan
Graduate Student
Chemistry

Evan D. Patamia

Evan D. Patamia
Graduate Student
Chemistry

Camryn H. Payne

Camryn H. Payne
Graduate Student
Chemistry

Aqeel A. Khan

Aqeel A. Khan
Graduate Student
Chemistry

Megan K. Yee

Megan K. Yee
Undergraduate Researcher
Chemistry

Lab Alumni

Ali Abdel-Maksoud

Ali Abdel-Maksoud
Former Undergraduate Researcher

Linden Allison

Dr. Linden K. Allison
Chemistry Ph.D.

Morgan Baima

Dr. Morgan Baima
Chemistry Ph.D.

David Bilger

Dr. David Bilger
Chemistry Ph.D.

Nongyi Cheng

Dr. Nongyi Cheng
Chemistry Ph.D.

Greg Eyer

Greg Eyer
Chemistry M.Sc.

S. Zohreh Homayounfar

Dr. S. Zohreh Homayounfar
Chemistry Ph.D.

Dr. Jae Joon Kim

Dr. Jae Joon Kim
Former Postdoc

Dr. Brandon Kobilka

Dr. Brandon Kobilka
Former Postdoc

Kwang-Won Park

Dr. Kwang-Won Park
Chemistry Ph.D.

Dr. Yuelin Peng

Dr. Yuelin Peng
Electrical Engineering Ph.D.

Raaghesh Vijayan

Dr. Raaghesh Vijayan
Former Postdoc

Wesley Viola

Dr. Wesley Viola
Chemical Engineering Ph.D.

Dr. Jingjing Zhang

Dr. Jingjing Zhang
Former Postdoc

Dr. Lushuai Zhang

Dr. Lushuai Zhang
Materials Science & Engineering Ph.D.

Our Lab

We have a lot of toys. And we keep building more. If you want to check them out or want to help us build more science toys, join our team!

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Our Publications

2024

Towards Immobilized Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Agents for Electrochemical Carbon Capture from Air and Seawater


+Fawaz Ali, +David Bilger, Evan D. Patamia, Trisha L. Andrew,* David. G. Kwabi*
+Equal Contributors
Journal of the Electrochemical Society, 2024, 171, 053505. DOI:10.1149/1945-7111/ad4a0f PDF


Photoinitiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (piCVD) of Composition Tunable, Ionically Conductive Hydrogels on Diverse Substrates


Evan D. Patamia, Trisha L. Andrew*
Flexible and Printed Electronics, 2024, 8, 045003. DOI:10.1088/2058-8585/ad030f PDF


2023

Solar Thermal Textiles for On-Body Radiative Energy Collection Inspired by Polar Animals


Wesley Viola, Peiyao Zhao, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023, in press. DOI:10.1021/acsami.2c23075 PDF


UMass Amherst Press Release


Gizmodo Highlight




Humidity-Resistant, Broad-Range Pressure Sensors for Garment-Integrated Health, Motion, and Grip Strength Monitoring in Natural Environments


S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Ali Kiaghadi, Deepak Ganesan, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Materials Technologies, 2023, 2201313. DOI:10.1002/admt.202201313 PDF


UMass Amherst Press Release


AAAS Eureka Alert Highlight


Strategies to Combat the Fouling and Surface Texture Issues Associated with Fabric-Based Wearable Colorimetric Sensors


Peiyao Zhao, Evan D. Patamia, Trisha L. Andrew*
Sensors and Actuators B, 2023, 377, 133099. DOI:10.1016/j.snb.2022.133099 PDF


2022

A Colorimetric Cotton Swab for Viral Protease Detection


+Ranit Dutta, +Sparsh Makhaik, +Peiyao Zhao, Kristalle Cruz, Kwang-Won Park, Hongxiu Liu, Trisha L. Andrew*, Jeanne Hardy*, S. Thayumanavan*
+Equal Contributors
Analytical Chemistry, 2022, 94, 12699-12705. DOI:10.1021/acs.analchem.2c02033 PDF


FabToys: Plush Toys with Large Arrays of Fabric-Based Sensors to Enable Fine-Grained Interaction Detection.


Ali Kiaghadi, Jin Huang, S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Trisha L. Andrew, Deepak Ganesan*
MobiSys '22: Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services, 2022, 1-13. DOI:10.1145/3498361.3538931 PDF


Longitudinal Sleep Monitoring For All: Payoffs, Challenges and Outlook.


Trisha L. Andrew*, Soha Rostaminia, S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Deepak Ganesan
ECS Sensors Plus, 2022, 1, 011602. DOI:10.1149/2754-2726/ac59c1 PDF


A Strategy for Accessing Nanobody-Based Electrochemical Sensors for Analyte Detection in Complex Media


Ruolan Fan, Yanfeng Li, Kwang-Won Park, Jiale Du, Lin Hui Chang, Eric R. Strieter, Trisha L. Andrew*
ECS Sensors Plus, 2022, 1, 010601. DOI:10.1149/2754-2726/ac5b2e PDF


Aggregation-Induced Delayed Fluorescence Through Seed-Induced Crystallization


Kwang-Won Park, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022, 126, 17663-17669. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c03921 PDF


Large-Area Heteroepitaxial Nanostructuring of Molecular Semiconductor Films for Enhanced Optoelectronic Response in Flexible Electronics


Kwang-Won Park, Raaghesh Vijayan, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Functional Materials, 2022, 32, 2113085. DOI:10.1002/adfm.202113085 PDF


PhyMask: Robust Sensing of Brain Activity and Physiological Signals During Sleep with an All-textile Eye Mask


Soha Rostaminia, S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Ali Kiaghadi, Trisha L. Andrew*, Deepak Ganesan*
ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, 2022, 3, 1-35. DOI:10.1145/3513023 PDF


Flexible Computational Photodetectors for Self-Powered Activity Sensing


Dingtian Zhang, Canek Fuentes-Hernandes, Raaghesh Vijayan, Yang Zhang, Yunzhi Li, Jung Wook Park, Yiyang Wang, Yuhui Zhao, Nivedita Arora, Ali Mirzazadeh, Youngwook Do, Tingyu CHeng, Saignesh Swaminathan, Thad Starner, Trisha L. Andrew, Gregory D. Abowd
Npj Flexible Electronics, 2022, 6, 7. DOI:10.1038/s41528-022-00137-z PDF


2021

Enabling Longitudinal Respiration Monitoring Using Vapor-Coated Conducting Textiles


Linden K. Allison, Soha Rostaminia, Ali Kiaghadi, Deepak Ganesan, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Omega 2021, 6, 31869-31875. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c04616 PDF


Garment-Integrated Thermoelectric Generator Arrays for Wearable Body Heat Harvesting


Linden K. Allison, Yuen Tung Lee, Trisha L. Andrew*
Flexible and Printed Electronics 2021, 6, 044006. DOI: 10.1088/2058-8585/ac3ffc PDF


Biosensor Encapsulation via Photoinitiated Chemical Vapor Deposition (piCVD)


Ruolan Fan, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2021, 168, 077518. DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/ac1705 PDF


Immobilization of Nanobodies with Vapor-Deposited Polymer Encapsulation for Robust Biosensors


Ruolan Fan, Jiale Du, Kwang-Won Park, Lin Hui Chang, Eric R. Strieter*, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Applied Polymer Materials 2021, 3, 2561-2567. DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.1c00140 PDF


PressION: An All-Fabric Piezoionic Pressure Sensor for Extracting Physiological Metrics in Both Static and Dynamic Contexts


S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Ali Kiaghadi, Deepak Ganesan, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2021, 168, 017515. DOI: 10.1149/1945-7111/abdc65 PDF


An Aqueous Eutectic Electrolyte for Low-Cost, Safe Energy Storage with an Operational Temperature Range of 150oC, from -70oC to 80oC


Wesley Viola, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2021, 125, 246-251. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c09676 PDF


2020

Guaiazulene Revisited: A New Material for Green-Processed Optoelectronics


David Bilger, Kwang-Won Park, Ali Abdel-Maksoud, Trisha L. Andrew*
Polymer Chemistry 2020, 11, 7656-7661. DOI: 10.1039/D0PY01355B PDF


Chesma: Multimodal Smart Eyewear for Longitudinal Eye Movement Tracking


S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Soha Rostaminia, Ali Kiaghadi, Xingda Chen, Emerson T. Alexander, Trisha L. Andrew*
Matter 2020, 7, 30. DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2020.07.030 PDF


Hear Trisha's Interview on BBC's Digital Planet (starts at 12:56)


Eurekalert! Feature


C&En News Highlight


New Scientist Article


UMass Amherst Press Release






On-Site Identification of Ozone Damage in Fruiting Plants Using Vapor-Deposited Conducting Polymer Tattoos


+Jae Joon Kim, +Ruolan Fan, Linden K. Allison, Trisha L. Andrew*
Science Advances 2020, 6, eabc3296. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.abc3296 PDF

+Equal Contributors


Nature Research Highlight


UMass Amherst Press Release




The Future of Smart Textiles: User Interfaces and Health Monitors


Trisha L. Andrew*
Matter 2020, 2, 794-795. DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2020.03.011 PDF


Image Credit: Linden K. Allison

Broadband-Absorbing Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Composite Films on Topologically Complex Substrates


David Bilger, Kwang-Won Park, Ali Abdel-Maksoud, Trisha L. Andrew*
Organic Electronics 2020, 85, 105862. DOI:10.1016/j.orgel.2020.105862 PDF


Self-Discharge Characteristics of Vapor Deposited Polymer Electrodes in an All-Textile Supercapacitor


Wesley Viola, Chang Jin, Trisha L. Andrew*
Synthetic Metals 2020, 268, 116483. DOI:10.1016/j.synthmet.2020.116483 PDF


Real-Time and Noninvasive Detection of UV-Induced Deep Tissue Damage Using Electrical Tattoos


Jae Joon Kim, Trisha L. Andrew*
Biosensors and Bioelectronics 2020, 149, 7159-7174. DOI:10.1016/j.bios.2019.111909 PDF


Perspective—Challenges in Developing Wearable Electrochemical Sensors for Longitudinal Health Monitoring


Ruolan Fan, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of the Electrochemical Society 2020, 167, 037542.
DOI:10.1149/1945-7111/ab67b0 PDF


Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Human Motion: A Review on Mechanisms, Materials, and Challenges


S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Trisha L. Andrew*
SLAS Technology 2020, 25, 1-16.
DOI:10.1177/2472630319891128 PDF


1D Nanowires of Non-Centrosymmetric Molecular Semiconductors Grown by Physical Vapor Deposition


Kwang-won Park, David Bilger, Trisha L. Andrew*
Molecular Systems Design and Engineering 2020, 5, 110-116.
DOI:10.1039/C9ME00100J PDF


2019

Phyjama: Physiological Sensing via Fiber-Enhanced Pyjamas


Ali Kiaghadi, S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Trisha L. Andrew,* Deepak Ganesan*
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 2019, 3, 89. DOI:10.1145/3351247. PDF.


A Critical Review of Reactive Vapor Deposition for Conjugated Polymer Synthesis


David Bilger, S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2019, 7, 7159-7174. DOI:10.1039/C9TC01388A PDF


Vapor-Printed Polymer Electrodes for Long-Term,
On-Demand Health Monitoring


Jae Joon Kim, Linden K. Allison, Trisha L. Andrew*
Science Reports 2019, 5, eaaw0463. DOI:10.1126/sciadv.eaaw0463. PDF

Physics World Highlight




A Wearable All-Fabric Thermoelectric Generator


Linden K. Allison, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Materials Technologies 2019, 4, 1800615. DOI:10.1002/admt.201800615. PDF

Editor's Pick for "Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2019"

UMass Amherst Press Release

IEEE Spectrum Magazine Article


Oxidant Aggregate Induced Porosity in Vapor Deposited Polymer Films and Correlated Impact on Electrochemical Properties


Wesley Viola, Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew*
Supramolecular Chemistry 2019, 31, 491-498. DOI:10.1080/10610278.2019.1623892 PDF


A Vapor Printed Electron-Accepting Conjugated Polymer for Textile Optoelectronics


David Bilger, Kwang-Won Park, Trisha L. Andrew*
Synthetic Metals 2019, 250, 1-6. DOI:10.1016/j.synthmet.2019.02.005 PDF


Wash-Stable, Oxidation Resistant Conductive Cotton Electrodes for Wearable Electronics


Sompit Wanwong,* Weradesh Sangkhun, S. Zohreh Homayounfar, Kwang-Won Park, Trisha L. Andrew*
RSC Advances 2019,9, 9198-9203. DOI:10.1039/C9RA00932A. PDF


Solvent-Free Reactive Vapor Deposition for Functional Fabrics: Separating Oil-Water Mixtures with Fabrics


Nongyi Cheng, Kwang-Won Park, Trisha L. Andrew*
Fibers 2019, 7, 2. DOI:10.3390/fib7010002 PDF




Superresolution Optical Nanopatterning at Low Light Intensities Using a Quantum Yield-Matched Photochrome


Apratim Majumder, Levi Bourke, Trisha L. Andrew, Rajesh Menon*
OSA Continuum 2019, 2, 1754-1761. DOI:10.1364/OSAC.2.001754 PDF

2018

High Energy Density, Super-Deformable, Garment-Integrated Microsupercapacitors for Powering Wearable Electronics


Lushuai Zhang, Wesley Viola, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2018, 10, 36834-36840. DOI:10.1021/acsami.8b08408. PDF

UMass Amherst Press Release

Market Business News

Material District Highlight

Correio Braziliense Science and Technology Highlight


Using the Surface Features of Plant Matter to Create All-Polymer Pseudocapacitors with High Areal Capacitance


Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2018, 10, 38574-38580. DOI:10.1021/acsami.8b12551. PDF

Read the C&EN Story highlighting this work.


Fabric as a Sensor: Towards Unobtrusive Sensing of Human Behavior with Triboelectric Textiles


Ali Kiaghadi, Morgan Baima, Jeremy Gummeson, Trisha L. Andrew,* Deepak Ganesan*
The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys ’18), November 4–7, 2018, Shenzhen, China. ACM: New York, NY, USA. DOI:10.1145/3274783.3274845. PDF


Fluoropolymer-Wrapped Conductive Threads for Textile Touch Sensors Operating via the Triboelectric Effect


Morgan Baima, Trisha L. Andrew*
Fibers 2018, 6, 41. PDF


Vapor‐Coated Monofilament Fibers for Embroidered Electrochemical Transistor Arrays on Fabrics


Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Electronic Materials 2018, 4, 1800271. PDF

Melding Vapor Phase Organic Chemistry and Textile Manufacturing to Produce Wearable Electronics


Trisha L. Andrew,* Lushuai Zhang, Nongyi Cheng, Morgan Baima, Jae Joon Kim, Linden Allison, Steven Hoxie
Accounts of Chemical Research 2018, 51, 850-859. PDF

Reactive Vapor Deposition of Conjugated Polymer Films on Arbitrary Substrates


Nongyi Cheng, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of Visual Experiments 2018, 131, e56775.

Learn How to Replicate our Deposition Process

2017

Transforming Commercial Textiles and Threads into Sewable and Weavable Electric Heaters


Lushuai Zhang, Morgan Baima, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 32299-32307. DOI:10.1021/acsami.7b10514. PDF


Rugged Textile Electrodes for Wearable Devices Obtained by Vapor Coating Off-the-Shelf Plain-Woven Fabrics


Lushuai Zhang, Marianne Fairbanks, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Materials 2017, 27, 1700415. DOI:10.1002/adfm.201700415. PDF


Read the Advanced Science News Highlight

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Read the Research Next Feature on our work


Vapor Phase Organic Chemistry to Deposit Conjugated Polymer Films on Arbitrary Substrates


Nongyi Cheng, Lushuai Zhang, Jae Joon Kim, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2017, 5, 5787-5796. DOI:10.1039/C7TC00293A. PDF


Towards Seamlessly-Integrated Textile Electronics: Methods to Coat Fabrics and Fibers with Conducting Polymers for Electronic Applications


Linden K. Allison, Steven Hoxie, Trisha L. Andrew*
Chemical Communications 2017, 53, 7182-7193. DOI:10.1039/C7CC02592K. PDF


Deposition Dependent Ion Transport in Doped Conjugated Polymer Films: Insights for Creating High-Performance Electrochemical Devices


Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Materials Interfaces 2017, 1700873 DOI:10.1002/admi.201700873. PDF




Integrating a Semitransparent, Fullerene-Free Organic Solar Cell in Tandem with a BiVO4 Photoanode for Unassisted Solar Water Splitting


Yuelin Peng, Gokul Govindaraju, Dong Ki Lee, Kyoung-Shin Choi,* Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 2017, 9, 22449-22455. DOI:10.1021/acsami.7b04486. PDF




ITO-Free Transparent Organic Solar Cell with Distributed Bragg Reflector for Solar Harvesting Windows


Yuelin Peng, Lushuai Zhang, Nongyi Cheng, Trisha L. Andrew*
Energies 2017, 10, 707. DOI:10.3390/en10050707. PDF


Read the Research Spotlight on Dr. Yuelin Peng's work


Origin of High Open-Circuit Voltage in a Planar Heterojunction Solar Cell Containing a Non-Fullerene Acceptor


Nongyi Cheng, Yuelin Peng, Trisha L. Andrew*
Applied Physics Letters 2017, 111, 133901. DOI:10.1063/1.4997502. PDF


Triplet Exciton Dissociation and Electron Extraction in Graphene-Templated Pentacene Observed with Utrafast Spectroscopy


Thomas J. McDonough, Lushuai Zhang, Susmit Singha Roy, Nicholas M. Kearns, Michael S. Arnold, Martin Zanni*, Trisha L. Andrew
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2017, 19, 4809-4820. DOI:10.1039/C6CP06454J. PDF


Anomalous Paramagnetism in Closed-Shell Molecular Semiconductors


Gregory P. Eyer, Kevin R. Kittilstved, Trisha L. Andrew*
Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2017, 121, 24929-24935. DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.7b07270. PDF


Synthesis and Properties of Dithiocarbamate-Linked Acenes


Jingjing Zhang, Nicholas R. Myllenbeck, Trisha L. Andrew*
Organic Letters 2017, 19, 210-213. DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.6b03492. PDF


2016

All-Textile Triboelectric Generator Compatible with Traditional Textile Process


Lushuai Zhang, Yanhao Yu, Gregory P. Eyer, Guoquan Suo, Liz Anna Kozik, Marianne Fairbanks, Xudong Wang, Trisha L. Andrew*
Advanced Materials Technologies 2016, 1600147. PDF


Orientation Control of Selected Organic Semiconductor Crystals Achieved by Monolayer Graphene Templates


Lushuai Zhang, Susmit Singha Roy, Nathaniel S. Safron, Melinda J. Shearer, Robert M. Jacobberger, Vivek Saraswat, Robert J. Hamers, Michael S. Arnold, Trisha L. Andrew*
Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2016, 1600621. PDF


Improved Photovoltaic Response of a Near-Infrared Sensitive Solar Cell by a Morphology-Controlling Seed Layer


Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew*
Org. Electron. 2016, 33, 135-141. PDF


Color-Pure Violet-Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Layered Lead Halide Perovskite Nanoplates


Dong Liang, Yuelin Peng, Yongping Fu, Melinda J. Shearer, Jingjing Zhang, Jianyuan Zhai, Yi Zhang, Robert J. Hamers, Trisha L. Andrew*, Song Jin*
ACS Nano 2016, 10, 6897-6904. PDF


Reverse-Absorbance-Modulation-Optical Lithography for Optical Nanopatterning at Low Light Levels


Apratim Majumder, Xiaowen Wan, Farhana Masid, Benjamin J. Pollock, Trisha L. Andrew*, Olivier Soppera, Rajesh Menon*
AIP Adv. 2016, 6, 065312. PDF


A Comprehensive Simulation Model of the Performance of Photochromic Films in Absorbance-Modulation-Optical-Lithography


Apratim Majumder, Phillip L. Helms, Trisha L. Andrew*, Rajesh Menon*
AIP Adv. 2016, 6, 035210. PDF


2015

Molecular Orientation-Dependent Interfacial Energetics and Built-in Voltage Tuned by a Template Graphene Monolayer


Lushuai Zhang, Susmit Singha Roy, Robert J. Hamers, Michael S. Arnold, Trisha L. Andrew*
J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 45-54. PDF


Restricting the Ψ Torsion Angle Has Stereoelectronic Consequences on a Scissile Bond: An Electronic Structure Analysis


Eric R. Strieter* and Trisha L. Andrew*
Biochemistry 2015, 54, 5748-5756. PDF


Barrier-Free Absorbance Modulation for Super-Resolution Optical Lithography


Apratim Majumder, Farhana Masid, Benjamin J. Pollock, Trisha L. Andrew*, Rajesh Menon*
Opt. Express 2015, 23, 12244-12250. PDF


Development of Lead Iodide Perovskite Solar Cells Using Three-Dimensional Titanium Dioxide Nanowire Architectures


Yanhao Yu, Jianye Li, Dalong Geng, Jialiang Wang, Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew, Michael S. Arnold, Xudong Wang*
ACS Nano 2015, 9, 564-572. PDF


Observing Electron Extraction by Monolayer Graphene Using Time-Resolved Surface Photoresponse Measurements


Lushuai Zhang, Susmit Singha Roy, Caroline R. English, Robert J. Hamers, Michael S. Arnold, Trisha L. Andrew*
ACS Nano 2015, 9, 2510-2517. PDF


2014

High Open-Circuit Voltage, High Fill Factor Single-Junction Organic Solar Cells


Yuelin Peng, Lushuai Zhang, Trisha L. Andrew*
Appl. Phys. Lett. 2014, 105, 083304. PDF


Patterning via Optical Saturable Transitions - Fabrication and Characterization


Precious Cantu, Trisha L. Andrew* Rajesh Menon*
J. Vis. Exp. 2014, 94, e52449. Link


Patterning via Optical-Saturable Transformations: A Review and Simple Simulation Model


Precious Cantu, Trisha L. Andrew* Rajesh Menon*
Appl. Phys. Lett. 2014, 105, 193105. PDF


2013

Effect of Synthetic Accessibility on the Commercial Viability of Organic Photovoltaics


Timothy P. Osedach*, Trisha L. Andrew,* Vladimir Bulovic
Energy Environ. Sci. 2013, 6, 711-718. PDF



Nanopatterning of Diarylethene Films via Selective Dissolution of One Photoisomer


Precious Cantu, Trisha L. Andrew* Rajesh Menon*
Appl. Phys. Lett. 2013, 103, 173112. PDF



Optical Patterning of Features with Spacing Below the Far-Field Diffraction Limit Using Absorbance Modulation


Farhana Masid, Trisha L. Andrew* Rajesh Menon*
Optics Express 2013, 21, 5209-5214. PDF



Cyclobutadiene-C60 Adducts:  N-type Materials for Organic Photovoltaic Cells with High VOC


Grace Han, William Collins, Trisha L. Andrew, Vladimir Bulovic, Timothy. M. Swager*
Adv. Funct. Mater., 2013, 23, 3061-3069. PDF


Light-Recycling Within Electronic Displays Using Deep Red and Near Infrared Photoluminescent Polarizers


Menendez-Velazquez, A.; Mulder, C. L.; Thompson, N. J.; Reusswig, P. D.; Andrew, T. L.; Rotschild, C.; Baldo, M. A.
Energy Environ. Sci. 2013, 6, 72-75. PDF


Postdoctoral and Graduate Research Publications

Andrew, T. L.; Lobez, J. M. L.; Bulovic, V.; Swager, T. M. “Improving the Performance of P3HT-Fullerene Solar Cells with Side-Chain-Functionalized Poly(thiophene) Additives:  A New Paradigm for Polymer Design” ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 3044-3056. example graphic

Paydavosi, S.; Yaul, F.; Wang, A. I.; Andrew, T. L.; Bulovic, V.; Lang, J. H. “MEMS Switches Employing Active Metal-Polymer Nanocomposites” IEEE 25th International Conference on MEMS 2012, 180-183.
Andrew, T. L.; Bulovic, V. “Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Containing 6,6-Dicyanofulvenes as n-Type Additives” ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 4671-4677. example graphic


Takeda, Y.; Andrew, T. L.; Lobez, J. M.; Mork, A. J.; Swager, T. M. “An Air-Stable Low-Bandgap n-Type Polymer Semiconductor Exhibiting Selective Solubility in Perfluorinated Solvents” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2012, 51, 9042-9046. PDF pub15


Osedach, T. P.; Iacchetti, A.; Lunt, R. R.; Andrew, T. L.; Bulovic, V. “Near-infrared photodetector consisting of J-aggregating cyanine dye and metal oxide thin films” Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 101, 113303.

Osedach, T. P.; Zhao, N.; Andrew, T. L.; Bawendi, M. G.; Bulovic, V. “Bias-Stress Effect in 1,2-Ethanedithiol-Treated PbS Quantum Dot Field-Effect Transistors” ACS Nano, 2012, 6, 3121-3127.

Cantu, P.; Brimhall, N.; Andrew, T. L.; Menon, R. Subwavelength nanopatterning of photochromic diarylethene films. Appl. Phys. Lett. 2012, 100, 183103.



Brimhall, N.; Andrew, T. L.; Manthena, R. V.; Menon, R. Breaking the Far-Field Diffraction Limit in Optical Nanopatterning via Repeated Photochemical and Electrochemical Transistions in Photochromic Molecules. Phys. Rev. Lett. 2011, 107, 205501. PDF

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Rotschild, C.; Tomes, M.; Mendoza, H.; Andrew, T. L.; Swager, T. M.; Carmon, T.; Baldo, M. A. Cascaded Energy Transfer for Efficient Broad-Band Pumping of High-Quality Micro-Lasers Adv. Mater. 2011, 23, 3057-3060. PDF

Andrew, T. L.; Swager, T. M. Selective Detection of High Explosives Via Photolytic Cleavage of Nitroesters and Nitramines.
J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 2976-2993. PDF


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Andrew, T. L.; Swager, T. M. Thermally-polymerized rylene nanoparticles.
Macromolecules, 2011, 44, 2276-2281. PDF


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Andrew, T. L.; Swager, T. M. Structure Property Relationships for Exciton Transfer in Conjugated Polymers.
J. Polym. Sci. B, 2011, 49, 476-498. PDF


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Andrew, T. L.; VanVeller, B.; Swager, T. M. The Synthesis of Azaperylene-9,10-dicarboximides.
Synlett, 2010, 3045-3048. PDF


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Andrew, T. L.; Cox, J. R.; Swager, T. M. Synthesis, Reactivity, and Electronic Properties of 6,6-Dicyanofulvenes.
Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 5302-5305. PDF


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Levine, M.; Song, I.; Andrew, T. L.; Kooi, S. E.; Swager, T. M. Photoluminescent energy transfer from poly(phenyleneethynylene)s to near-infrared emitting fluorophores.
J. Polym. Sci. A, 2010, 48, 3382-3391. PDF



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Andrew, T. L.; Tsai, H.-Y.; Menon, R. Confining Light to Deep Subwavelength Dimensions to Enable Optical Nanopatterning.
Science, 2009, 324, 917-921. PDF

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Moslin, R. M.; Andrew, T. L.; Kooi, S. E.; Swager, T. M. Anionic Oxidative Polymerization: The Synthesis of Poly(phenylenedicyanovinylene) (PPCN2V).
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 20-21. PDF




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Andrew, T. L. and Swager, T. M. A Fluorescence Turn-On Mechanism to Detect the High Explosives RDX and PETN.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2007, 129, 7254-7255. PDF

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Andrew, T. L. and Swager, T. M. Reduced Photobleaching of Conjugated Polymer Films Through Small Molecule Additives.
Macromolecules, 2008, 41, 8306-8308. PDF



Patents

Andrew, T. L.; Fairbanks, M. Conductive Textiles.

Andrew, T. L.; Zhang, L. Polymeric Capacitors for Energy Storage Devices.

Bulović, V.; Lang, J. H.; Lee, H. S.; Swager, T. M.; Andrew, T. L. D'Asaro, M. E.; Deotare, P.; Murarka, A.; Niroui, F.; Sletten, E.; Wang, A. I-J. Electromechanical device with reduced energy loss and flucuation due to temperature change.

Swager, T.M.; Bulović, V.; Han, G.D.; Andrew, T. L. Functionalized nanostructures and related devices.

Swager, T.M.; Andrew, T. L. Detection of analytes using nitro-containing analytes.

Swager, T. M.; Andrew, T. L.; Thomas, S. W. III; Bouffard, J. Determination of Explosives Including RDX.

Swager, T. M.; Andrew, T. L. Stabilizing Agents for Prevention of Photobleaching.

Swager, T. M.; Andrew, T. L. Determination of Explosives via Photolytic Cleavage of Nitramines and Nitroesters.

Swager, T. M.; Lobez, J. M.; Wang, F.; Andrew, T. L.; Bulovic, V. Side-Chain Functionalized Polymer Surfactants to Decrease Charge Recombination in Solar Cells.

Swager, T. M.; Andrew, T. L. ; Bulović, V. 6,6-Dicyanofulvenes as Fullerene Substitutes in Bulk Heterojunction Soalr Cells.

Paydavosi, S.; Wang, A. I.; Niroui, F.; Yaul, F.; Murarka, A. Andrew, T. L.; Bulović, V.; Lang, J. Electronically Controlled Squishable Composite Switch.

Swager, T. M.; Han, G.; Collins, W.; Andrew, T. L.; Bulović, V.;Cyclobutadiene-C60 adducts as N-type materials for photovoltaic devices.

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