Renewed prospects for organic photovoltaics

G Zhang, FR Lin, F Qi, T Heumüller, A Distler… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) have progressed steadily through three stages of photoactive
materials development:(i) use of poly (3-hexylthiophene) and fullerene-based acceptors …

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

Dimerized small-molecule acceptors enable efficient and stable organic solar cells

C Sun, JW Lee, C Lee, D Lee, S Cho, SK Kwon, BJ Kim… - Joule, 2023 - cell.com
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of small-molecule acceptor (SMA)-based organic
solar cells (OSCs) have increased remarkably, but their long-term stability is insufficient for …

Linker engineering of dimerized small molecule acceptors for highly efficient and stable organic solar cells

JW Lee, C Sun, C Lee, Z Tan, TNL Phan… - ACS Energy …, 2023 - ACS Publications
High power conversion efficiency (PCE) and long-term stability are important requirements
for commercialization of organic solar cells (OSCs). In this study, we demonstrate efficient …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX **a, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …

16% efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells enabled by a finely tuned morphology via the design of ternary blend

T Liu, T Yang, R Ma, L Zhan, Z Luo, G Zhang, Y Li… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
There is an urgent demand for all-polymer organic solar cells (AP-OSCs) to gain higher
efficiency. Here, we successfully improve the performance to 16.09% by introducing a small …

Thermoplastic elastomer tunes phase structure and promotes stretchability of high‐efficiency organic solar cells

Z Peng, K **an, Y Cui, Q Qi, J Liu, Y Xu… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Top‐performance organic solar cells (OSCs) consisting of conjugated polymer donors and
nonfullerene small molecule acceptors (NF‐SMAs) deliver rapid increases in efficiencies …

Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

A Wadsworth, M Moser, A Marks, MS Little… - Chemical Society …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes have formed an integral part of high performance organic solar cells over the last
20 years, however their inherent limitations in terms of synthetic flexibility, cost and stability …

The bulk heterojunction in organic photovoltaic, photodetector, and photocatalytic applications

A Wadsworth, Z Hamid, J Kosco, N Gasparini… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors require an energetic offset in order to photogenerate free charge
carriers efficiently, owing to their inability to effectively screen charges. This is vitally …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …