Organic photovoltaics over three decades

O Inganäs - Advanced materials, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
The development of organic semiconductors for photovoltaic devices, over the last three
decades, has led to unexpected performance for an alternative choice of materials to convert …

Asymmetric nonfullerene small molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

C Li, H Fu, T **a, Y Sun - Advanced Energy Materials, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Symmetry breaking provides a new material design strategy for nonfullerene small molecule
acceptors (SMAs). The past 10 years have witnessed significant advances in asymmetric …

A high‐efficiency organic solar cell enabled by the strong intramolecular electron push–pull effect of the nonfullerene acceptor

W Li, L Ye, S Li, H Yao, H Ade, J Hou - Advanced Materials, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Besides broadening of the absorption spectrum, modulating molecular energy levels, and
other well‐studied properties, a stronger intramolecular electron push–pull effect also …

Recent advances of nonfullerene acceptors in organic solar cells

D Zhou, J Wang, Z Xu, H Xu, J Quan, J Deng, Y Li… - Nano Energy, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have acquired dramatic progresses during the past several years
due to low-cost, light weight, mechanical flexibility, and printable fabrication. Simultaneously …

A Twisted Thieno[3,4‐b]thiophene‐Based Electron Acceptor Featuring a 14‐π‐Electron Indenoindene Core for High‐Performance Organic Photovoltaics

S Xu, Z Zhou, W Liu, Z Zhang, F Liu, H Yan… - Advanced …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
With an indenoindene core, a new thieno [3, 4‐b] thiophene‐based small‐molecule electron
acceptor, 2, 2′‐((2Z, 2′ Z)‐((6, 6′‐(5, 5, 10, 10‐tetrakis (2‐ethylhexyl)‐5, 10 …

Conjugated materials containing dithieno [3, 2-b: 2′, 3′-d] pyrrole and its derivatives for organic and hybrid solar cell applications

Y Geng, A Tang, K Tajima, Q Zeng… - Journal of Materials …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The growing number of new π-conjugated polymers and small-molecules has promoted the
rapid development of organic solar cells (OSCs) over the past two decades. Among the most …

Recent progress on non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics

H Sun, F Chen, ZK Chen - Materials Today, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have attracted great interest as potential substitutes for
fullerenes and their derivatives. With the advent of new building blocks and design strategy …

Introducing four 1, 1-dicyanomethylene-3-indanone end-capped groups as an alternative strategy for the design of small-molecular nonfullerene acceptors

A Mahmood, J Yang, J Hu, X Wang… - The Journal of …, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Linear A–D–A or A− π–D− π–A architectures are predominant in the design of promising
nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs), which promoted the rapid progress of organic solar cells …

Highly efficient near-infrared and semitransparent polymer solar cells based on an ultra-narrow bandgap nonfullerene acceptor

J Chen, G Li, Q Zhu, X Guo, Q Fan, W Ma… - Journal of Materials …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we design and synthesize an acceptor–donor–acceptor structured non-
fullerene acceptor (ACS8) with an ultra-narrow bandgap (1.3 eV). It possesses a well …

High-performance organic photovoltaics incorporating an active layer with a few nanometer-thick third-component layer on a binary blend layer

HW Cheng, CY Juan, A Mohapatra, CH Chen… - Nano …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
In this paper, a universal approach toward constructing a new bilayer device architecture, a
few-nanometer-thick third-component layer on a bulk-heterojunction (BHJ) binary blend …