Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

C Yan, S Barlow, Z Wang, H Yan, AKY Jen… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are currently a major focus of research in the development
of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs). In contrast to the widely used fullerene …

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 …

Giant Molecule Acceptor Enables Highly Efficient Organic Solar Cells Processed Using Non‐halogenated Solvent

H Zhuo, X Li, J Zhang, S Qin, J Guo… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
High efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs) based on A‐DA′ D‐A type small molecule
acceptors (SMAs) were mostly fabricated by toxic halogenated solvent processing, and …

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

J Liu, S Chen, D Qian, B Gautam, G Yang, J Zhao… - Nature Energy, 2016 - nature.com
Fast and efficient charge separation is essential to achieve high power conversion efficiency
in organic solar cells (OSCs). In state-of-the-art OSCs, this is usually achieved by a …

A molecular photosensitizer achieves a Voc of 1.24 V enabling highly efficient and stable dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I)-based electrolyte

D Zhang, M Stojanovic, Y Ren, Y Cao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
To develop photosensitizers with high open-circuit photovoltage (V oc) is a crucial strategy
to enhance the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of co-sensitized solar cells. Here, we …

Fused nonacyclic electron acceptors for efficient polymer solar cells

S Dai, F Zhao, Q Zhang, TK Lau, T Li… - Journal of the …, 2017 - ACS Publications
We design and synthesize four fused-ring electron acceptors based on 6, 6, 12, 12-tetrakis
(4-hexylphenyl)-indacenobis (dithieno [3, 2-b; 2′, 3′-d] thiophene) as the electron-rich unit …

Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …

Single‐junction binary‐blend nonfullerene polymer solar cells with 12.1% efficiency

F Zhao, S Dai, Y Wu, Q Zhang, J Wang… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A new fluorinated nonfullerene acceptor, ITIC‐Th1, has been designed and synthesized by
introducing fluorine (F) atoms onto the end‐cap** group 1, 1‐dicyanomethylene‐3 …

[PDF][PDF] An electron acceptor challenging fullerenes for efficient polymer solar cells

Y Lin, J Wang, ZG Zhang, H Bai, Y Li, D Zhu, X Zhan - Advanced materials, 2015 - epfl.ch
DOI: 10.1002/adma. 201404317 have shown very high charge mobilities, even exceeding
20 cm 2 V− 1 s− 1.[18] Meanwhile, the introduction of electronwithdrawing moieties (such as …

Non-fullerene electron acceptors for use in organic solar cells

CB Nielsen, S Holliday, HY Chen… - Accounts of chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Conspectus The active layer in a solution processed organic photovoltaic device comprises
a light absorbing electron donor semiconductor, typically a polymer, and an electron …