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 …

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 …

Non-fullerene acceptor with asymmetric structure and phenyl-substituted alkyl side chain for 20.2% efficiency organic solar cells

Y Jiang, S Sun, R Xu, F Liu, X Miao, G Ran, K Liu, Y Yi… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
For organic solar cells (OSCs), bridging the gap with Shockley–Queisser limit necessitates
simultaneously reducing the energy loss for a high open-circuit voltage, improving light …

19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

K Liu, Y Jiang, G Ran, F Liu, W Zhang, X Zhu - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The development of high-performance binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with a simplified
working mechanism and fabrication process is highly desirable to promote the commercial …

Achieving 19% power conversion efficiency in planar‐mixed heterojunction organic solar cells using a pseudosymmetric electron acceptor

W Gao, F Qi, Z Peng, FR Lin, K Jiang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A record power conversion efficiency (PCE) of over 19% is realized in planar‐mixed
heterojunction (PMHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) by adopting the asymmetric selenium …

A rare case of brominated small molecule acceptors for high-efficiency organic solar cells

H Liang, X Bi, H Chen, T He, Y Lin, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Given that bromine possesses similar properties but extra merits of easily synthesizing and
polarizing comparing to homomorphic fluorine and chlorine, it is quite surprising very rare …

Interface engineering for highly efficient organic solar cells

H Tang, Y Bai, H Zhao, X Qin, Z Hu, C Zhou… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have made dramatic advancements during the past decades
owing to the innovative material design and device structure optimization, with power …

Self-sustaining personal all-day thermoregulatory clothing using only sunlight

Z Wang, Y Bo, P Bai, S Zhang, G Li, X Wan, Y Liu, R Ma… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The human body must stay within a certain temperature range for comfort and safety.
However, challenges for thermoregulatory clothing exist for harsh application scenarios …

Tandem organic solar cell with 20.2% efficiency

Z Zheng, J Wang, P Bi, J Ren, Y Wang, Y Yang, X Liu… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
As a promising strategy for enhancing light utilization, constructing cell with tandem structure
exhibits great potential in achieving high efficiency, which encourages the field of organic …

Realizing 19.05% efficiency polymer solar cells by progressively improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination

K Chong, X Xu, H Meng, J Xue, L Yu, W Ma… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Improving charge extraction and suppressing charge recombination are critically important
to minimize the loss of absorbed photons and improve the device performance of polymer …