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 …

From solution to thin film: molecular assembly of π-conjugated systems and impact on (opto) electronic properties

A Khasbaatar, Z Xu, JH Lee… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The assembly of conjugated organic molecules from solution to solid-state plays a critical
role in determining the thin film morphology and optoelectronic properties of solution …

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 …

3D acceptors with multiple A–D–A architectures for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Chen, Z Zhang, P Wang, Y Zhang, K Ma… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Compared to the most-studied non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) with linear skeletons, multi-
dimensional NFAs with largely conjugated extensions in multiple directions may contribute …

Asymmetric side-chain substitution enables a 3D network acceptor with hydrogen bond assisted crystal packing and enhanced electronic coupling for efficient organic …

Z Luo, Y Gao, H Lai, Y Li, Z Wu, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Side chain modification on small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) is an effective method to
realize high device efficiencies for organic solar cells (OSCs), among which the asymmetric …

Double Asymmetric Core Optimizes Crystal Packing to Enable Selenophene‐based Acceptor with Over 18% Efficiency in Binary Organic Solar Cells

X Zhao, Q An, H Zhang, C Yang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Side‐chain tailoring is a promising method to optimize the performance of organic solar cells
(OSCs). However, asymmetric alkyl chain‐based small molecular acceptors (SMAs) are still …

Regioisomer‐free difluoro‐monochloro terminal‐based hexa‐halogenated acceptor with optimized crystal packing for efficient binary organic solar cells

L Yan, H Zhang, Q An, M Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we synthesized new hetero‐halogenated end groups with well‐determined
fluorinated and chlorinated substitutions (o‐FCl‐IC and FClF‐IC), and synthesized …

A facile strategy for third-component selection in non-fullerene acceptor-based ternary organic solar cells

Y Li, Y Cai, Y **e, J Song, H Wu, Z Tang… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The ternary strategy has been proved to be an efficient approach to improve the power
conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs). However, little attention has been …

Crystallography, morphology, electronic structure, and transport in non-fullerene/non-indacenodithienothiophene polymer: Y6 solar cells

W Zhu, AP Spencer, S Mukherjee… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Emerging nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) with crystalline domains enable high-performance
bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. Thermal annealing is known to enhance the BHJ …

Non-fullerene acceptors with hetero-dihalogenated terminals induce significant difference in single crystallography and enable binary organic solar cells with 17.5 …

L Wang, Q An, L Yan, HR Bai, M Jiang… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the dihalogenation of terminals being an effective strategy to produce efficient
nonfullerene acceptor (NFA)-based organic solar cells (OSCs), hetero-dihalogenated …