Recent advances in non-fullerene acceptors of the IDIC/ITIC families for bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells

G Forti, A Nitti, P Osw, G Bianchi, R Po… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The introduction of the IDIC/ITIC families of non-fullerene acceptors has boosted the
photovoltaic performances of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells. The fine tuning of the …

Highly efficient non-fused-ring electron acceptors enabled by the conformational lock and structural isomerization effects

J Zhao, X Xu, L Yu, R Li, Y Li… - ACS Applied Materials & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Two novel nonfused-ring electron acceptors (N-FREAs) namely DTP-out-F and DTP-in-F,
containing 2, 5-difluorophenylene central core flanked with DTP blocks and end-capped …

Importance of terminal group pairing of polymer donor and small‐molecule acceptor in optimizing blend morphology and voltage loss of high‐performance solar cells

GU Kim, C Sun, JS Park, HG Lee, D Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As a variety of non‐fullerene small molecule acceptors (SMAs) have been developed to
improve power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs), the pairing of the …

Tailoring the Weight of Surface and Intralayer Edge States to Control LUMO Energies

SJ Finkelmeyer, EJ Askins, J Eichhorn… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The energies of the frontier molecular orbitals determine the optoelectronic properties in
organic films, which are crucial for their application, and strongly depend on the morphology …

Isomeric effect of fluorene-based fused-ring electron acceptors to achieve high-efficiency organic solar cells

YJ Xue, FY Cao, PK Huang, YC Su… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–D–A) non-fullerene electron acceptors (NFEAs) using ladder-
type donor structures have become the dominant n-type materials for achieving high …

Improved photovoltaic performance of a nonfullerene acceptor based on a benzo [b] thiophene fused end group with extended π-conjugation

K Yang, Q Liao, CW Koh, J Chen, M Su… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
A new indacenodithiophene-based acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–D–A) type nonfullerene
acceptor material ITBTC, featuring a conjugation-extended benzo [b] thiophene-fused end …

Orientational Effects and Molecular-Scale Thermoelectricity Control

T Alotaibi, M Alshahrani, M Alshammari, M Alotaibi… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The orientational effect concept in a molecular-scale junction is established for asymmetric
junctions, which requires the fulfillment of two conditions:(1) design of an asymmetric …

Alcohol-soluble zwitterionic 4-(dimethyl (pyridin-2-yl) ammonio) butane-1-sulfonate small molecule as a cathode modifier for nonfullerene acceptor-based organic …

FY Cao, YC Su, YC Hsueh, CC Chou… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2021 - ACS Publications
A new zwitterionic small molecule 4-(dimethyl (pyridin-2-yl) ammonio) butane-1-sulfonate
(PAS), synthesized from 2-dimethylaminopyrindine (2-DMAP), was developed for the ITO …

Design and structural modification of narrow-bandgap small molecules based on asymmetric porphyrin-diketopyrrolopyrrole backbone for solution-processed organic …

F Cheng, X He, L Yin, B **e, Y Li - Dyes and Pigments, 2020 - Elsevier
Three novel organic small molecules based on asymmetric porphyrin-diketopyrrolopyrrole
(DPP) backbone, namely ZnPTDPP, ZnPTDPPCN and ZnPTDPPO, have been designed …

Forced coplanarity of dithienofluorene-based non-fullerene acceptors to achieve high-efficiency organic solar cells

FY Cao, PK Huang, YC Su, WC Huang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Ladder-type structures have been the key element for high performance non-fullerene
acceptors (NFAs). In this work, two dithieno [3, 2-b: 6, 7-b′] fluorine (DTF)-based …