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 …

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 …

A new polymer donor enables binary all‐polymer organic photovoltaic cells with 18% efficiency and excellent mechanical robustness

J Wang, Y Cui, Y Xu, K **an, P Bi, Z Chen… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of polymerized small‐molecule acceptors has boosted the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of all‐polymer organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells to 17 …

Improved photovoltaic performance and robustness of all-polymer solar cells enabled by a polyfullerene guest acceptor

H Yu, Y Wang, X Zou, J Yin, X Shi, Y Li, H Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fullerene acceptors typically possess excellent electron-transporting properties and can
work as guest components in ternary organic solar cells to enhance the charge extraction …

Recent progress and prospects of dimer and multimer acceptors for efficient and stable polymer solar cells

JW Lee, JS Park, H Jeon, S Lee, D Jeong… - Chemical Society …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
High power conversion efficiency (PCE) and long-term stability are essential prerequisites
for the commercialization of polymer solar cells (PSCs). Small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) …

Achieving over 17% efficiency of ternary all-polymer solar cells with two well-compatible polymer acceptors

R Sun, W Wang, H Yu, Z Chen, XX **a, H Shen, J Guo… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
The field of all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) has experienced rapid development during the
past few years, mainly driven by the design of efficient polymer acceptors (PA s). However …

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) …

A vinylene‐linker‐based polymer acceptor featuring a coplanar and rigid molecular conformation enables high‐performance all‐polymer solar cells with over 17 …

H Yu, Y Wang, HK Kim, X Wu, Y Li, Z Yao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐art Y‐series polymer acceptors are typically based on a mono‐thiophene linker,
which can cause some twisted molecular conformations and thus limit the performance of all …

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

Suppressing the energetic disorder of all-polymer solar cells enables over 18% efficiency

T Zhang, Y Xu, H Yao, J Zhang, P Bi, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) usually have a complex blend morphology due to their
higher probability of chain entanglement. Under these conditions, the larger energetic …