The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

Single‐junction organic solar cells with 19.17% efficiency enabled by introducing one asymmetric guest acceptor

R Sun, Y Wu, X Yang, Y Gao, Z Chen, K Li… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ternary strategy has been widely identified as an effective approach to obtain high‐
efficiency organic solar cells (OSCs). However, for most ternary OSCs, the nonradiative …

Organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a 2D‐conjugated non‐fullerene acceptor featuring favorable electronic and aggregation structures

K Liu, Y Jiang, F Liu, G Ran, F Huang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The π‐expansion of non‐fullerene acceptors is a promising method for boosting the organic
photovoltaic performance by allowing the fine‐tuning of electronic structures and molecular …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …

Unidirectional sidechain engineering to construct dual‐asymmetric acceptors for 19.23% efficiency organic solar cells with low energy loss and efficient charge …

Q Fan, R Ma, J Yang, J Gao, H Bai, W Su… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Achieving both high open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc) to
boost power‐conversion efficiency (PCE) is a major challenge for organic solar cells …

Fused-ring electron acceptors for photovoltaics and beyond

J Wang, X Zhan - Accounts of Chemical Research, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Emerging solar cells that convert clean and renewable solar energy to
electricity, such as organic solar cells (OSCs) and perovskite solar cells (PSCs), have …

Near‐infrared materials: the turning point of organic photovoltaics

D Meng, R Zheng, Y Zhao, E Zhang, L Dou… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Near‐infrared (NIR)‐absorbing organic semiconductors have opened up many
exciting opportunities for organic photovoltaic (OPV) research. For example, new …

The Development of Quinoxaline‐Based Electron Acceptors for High Performance Organic Solar Cells

H Liu, Y Geng, Z **ao, L Ding, J Du, A Tang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In the recent advances of organic solar cells (OSCs), quinoxaline (Qx)‐based nonfullerene
acceptors (QxNFAs) have attracted lots of attention and enabled the recorded power …

A-DA′ DA non-fullerene acceptors for high-performance organic solar cells

Q Wei, W Liu, M Leclerc, J Yuan, H Chen… - Science China Chemistry, 2020 - Springer
Since the world-record power conversion efficiency of 15.7% was achieved for organic solar
cells (OSCs) in 2019, the newly developed non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) Y6 with an A-DA …