[HTML][HTML] Polymer donor–polymer acceptor (all-polymer) solar cells

A Facchetti - Materials Today, 2013 - Elsevier
Organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells represent an exciting class of renewable energy
technology; they are lightweight and flexible, and have a low production cost. Over the last …

Thienothiophenes, dithienothiophenes, and thienoacenes: syntheses, oligomers, polymers, and properties

ME Cinar, T Ozturk - Chemical Reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Heterocyclic compounds comprising various biochemical materials are an indispensable
member of our life such as nucleic acids. Moreover, many naturally occurring pigments …

Molecular design and ordering effects in π-functional materials for transistor and solar cell applications

PM Beaujuge, JMJ Fréchet - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
Organic electronics are broadly anticipated to impact the development of flexible thin-film
device technologies. Among these, solution-processable π-conjugated polymers and small …

High-performance conjugated polymer donor materials for polymer solar cells with narrow-bandgap nonfullerene acceptors

C Cui, Y Li - Energy & Environmental Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past few years, the emergence of nonfullerene (n-type organic semiconductor (n-OS))
acceptors combining with the rational design of conjugated polymer donor materials has …

Design, synthesis and photophysical studies of dipyrromethene-based materials: insights into their applications in organic photovoltaic devices

A Bessette, GS Hanan - Chemical Society Reviews, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
This review article presents the most recent developments in the use of materials based on
dipyrromethene (DPM) and azadipyrromethenes (ADPM) for organic photovoltaic (OPV) …

Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP)-based materials for organic photovoltaics

S Qu, H Tian - Chemical Communications, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Diketopyrrolopyrrole (DPP) pigments have been widely used in inks, paints, and plastics
since it was first developed back in the early 1970s. The DPP-based materials were …

Improvement of open-circuit voltage and photovoltaic properties of 2D-conjugated polymers by alkylthio substitution

C Cui, WY Wong, Y Li - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Low bandgap and two-dimensional (2D)-conjugated copolymers based on benzo [1, 2-b: 4,
5-b′] dithiophene with conjugated thiophene side chains (BDTT) and thieno [3, 4-b] …

Design and synthesis of molecular donors for solution-processed high-efficiency organic solar cells

JE Coughlin, ZB Henson, GC Welch… - Accounts of chemical …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Organic semiconductors incorporated into solar cells using a bulk heterojunction (BHJ)
construction show promise as a cleaner answer to increasing energy needs throughout the …

Recent advances in wide‐bandgap photovoltaic polymers

Y Cai, L Huo, Y Sun - Advanced Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has witnessed significant advances in the field of organic solar cells
(OSCs). Ongoing improvements in the power conversion efficiency of OSCs have been …

Design strategies for organic semiconductors beyond the molecular formula

ZB Henson, K Müllen, GC Bazan - Nature chemistry, 2012 - nature.com
Organic semiconducting materials based on polymers and molecular systems containing an
electronically delocalized structure are the basis of emerging optoelectronic technologies …