Fused ring A–DA′ D–A (Y-series) non-fullerene acceptors: recent developments and design strategies for organic photovoltaics

P Murugan, T Hu, X Hu, Y Chen - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we aim to explore the structure–property relationships of a library of Y-series
non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs), their current advances, and present systematic (chemical …

Organic conjugated small molecules with donor–acceptor structures: design and application in the phototherapy of tumors

B Lu, Y Huang, Z Zhang, H Quan, Y Yao - Materials Chemistry …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Tumor phototherapies including mainly photothermal therapy (PTT) and photodynamic
therapy (PDT) have drawn increasing attention due to their various merits of minimal drug …

Tailoring cyano substitutions on quinoxaline‐based small‐molecule acceptors enabling enhanced molecular packing for high‐performance organic solar cells

L Chen, C Zhao, H Yu, A Sergeev, L Zhu… - Advanced Energy …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanation is a common chemical modification strategy to fine‐tune the energy levels and
molecular packing of organic semiconductors, especially materials used in organic solar …

Selective Chemical Reactivity of Non‐Fullerene Acceptor for Photoelectrochemical Bioassay of Urease Activity

R **ao, H Yu, M Liu, W Xu, Y Qin, R Tan… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are a crucial component of organic photovoltaics, and they
have gained significant attention due to their outstanding photoelectric conversion efficiency …

Fused ring pyrrolo [3, 2-b] pyrrole-based tilde-shaped acceptor molecules for highly efficient organic solar cells

K Atiq, M Adnan, S Muhammad, R Hussain… - Journal of Physics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Tilde-shaped materials based on pyrrolo [3, 2-b] pyrrole (PP) have attracted a lot of interest
as potential acceptors for organic solar cells (OSCs) because of their wide range of energy …

End group nonplanarization enhances phototherapy efficacy of A–D–A fused-ring photosensitizer for tumor phototherapy

B Lu, H Quan, Z Zhang, T Li, J Wang, Y Ding… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Enhancing the phototherapy efficacy of organic photosensitizers through molecular design
is a fascinating but challenging task. Herein, we propose a simple design strategy to first …

Icing on the cake: combining a dual PEG-functionalized pillararene and an ADA small molecule photosensitizer for multimodal phototherapy

B Lu, Z Zhang, Y Ji, S Zhou, B Jia, Y Zhang… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
The design of photosensitizers with multimodal antitumor activity and the construction of
nanocarriers with specific targeting are two magic weapons to achieve highly efficient tumor …

Advancements in optical and optoelectronic characteristics of benzotriazole-based asymmetric non-fullerene acceptors for organic photovoltaics

F Tahir, M Adnan, Z Irshad, R Hussain… - Journal of Physics and …, 2025 - Elsevier
The development of energy-efficient non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) has attracted much
attention in producing efficient organic solar cells (OSCs). These innovative materials are …

The influence of selenophene π-linker on photovoltaic properties of pyrrole-4, 6 (5-H)-dione-based chromophores: A quantum chemical study

I Shafiq, M Khalid, M Khan, MN Akhtar, A Tariq… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2024 - Elsevier
A series of 4-H-selenopheno [3, 4-c] pyrrole-4, 6 (5-H)-dione based chromophores (DMSD1-
DMSD7) was designed via the introduction of selenophene units (n= 2–7) in the π–spacer of …

A nanoplatform for mild-temperature photothermal and type I & II photodynamic therapy in the NIR-II biowindow

B Lu, Z Zhang, Y Huang, Y Zhang, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
In the current work, we synthesized an A–D–A smallmolecule photosensitizer, denoted as
DPTTIC, and a dual PEG-functionalized pillararene, denoted as WP5-8C-2PEG, and used …