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 …

Physical insights into non-fullerene organic photovoltaics

J Wang, Y **e, K Chen, H Wu, JM Hodgkiss… - Nature Reviews …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Boosted by the fast development of non-fullerene acceptors, organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
have achieved breakthrough power conversion efficiencies—in excess of 20% and …

Interface engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Tang, Y Bai, H Zhao, X Qin, Z Hu, C Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have made dramatic advancements during the past decades
owing to the innovative material design and device structure optimization, with power …

Recent progress in π-conjugated polymers for organic photovoltaics: solar cells and photodetectors

C Liu, L Shao, S Chen, Z Hu, H Cai, F Huang - Progress in Polymer …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract π-Conjugated polymers show promising potential in the application of organic
photovoltaics, including organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs) …

Covalent organic frameworks: design, synthesis, and functions

K Geng, T He, R Liu, S Dalapati, KT Tan, Z Li… - Chemical …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) are a class of crystalline porous organic polymers with
permanent porosity and highly ordered structures. Unlike other polymers, a significant …

Optical metasurfaces for energy conversion

E Cortés, FJ Wendisch, L Sortino, A Mancini… - Chemical …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Nanostructured surfaces with designed optical functionalities, such as metasurfaces, allow
efficient harvesting of light at the nanoscale, enhancing light–matter interactions for a wide …

Molecular-level insights on the reactive facet of carbon nitride single crystals photocatalysing overall water splitting

L Lin, Z Lin, J Zhang, X Cai, W Lin, Z Yu, X Wang - Nature Catalysis, 2020‏ - nature.com
Unraveling how reactive facets promote photocatalysis at the molecular level remains a
grand challenge, while identification of the reactive facets can provide guidelines for …

Advances in smart photovoltaic textiles

I Ali, MR Islam, J Yin, SJ Eichhorn, J Chen, N Karim… - ACS …, 2024‏ - ACS Publications
Energy harvesting textiles have emerged as a promising solution to sustainably power
wearable electronics. Textile-based solar cells (SCs) interconnected with on-body …

Acceptor–donor–acceptor type molecules for high performance organic photovoltaics–chemistry and mechanism

X Wan, C Li, M Zhang, Y Chen - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020‏ - pubs.rsc.org
The study of organic photovoltaics (OPVs) has made great progress in the past decade,
mainly attributed to the invention of new active layer materials. Among various types of …

Organic photodetectors for next‐generation wearable electronics

PCY Chow, T Someya - Advanced Materials, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation wearable electronics will need to be mechanically flexible and stretchable
such that they can be conformally attached onto the human body. Photodetectors that are …