The renaissance of polythiophene organic solar cells

L Ye, H Ke, Y Liu - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
The past decade has witnessed tremendous advances in the power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of organic photovoltaic cells. Concomitantly, the chemical structures of present high …

Advanced functional polymer materials

K Wang, K Amin, Z An, Z Cai, H Chen… - Materials Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The research on advanced functional polymers is being driven by the fast-growing demand
for new functional materials that can be used in revolutionary technologies. Polymers can be …

Polythiophenes for organic solar cells with efficiency surpassing 17%

X Yuan, Y Zhao, D **e, L Pan, X Liu, C Duan, F Huang… - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising electron donors for organic solar cells (OSCs) due to
their low production cost. However, the device performance of PTs in OSCs is rather poor …

n-Type molecular photovoltaic materials: design strategies and device applications

Q Yue, W Liu, X Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of photovoltaic technologies has been regarded as a promising approach for
converting solar energy to electricity and mitigating the energy crisis, and among these …

Surpassing 13% efficiency for polythiophene organic solar cells processed from nonhalogenated solvent

J **ao, X Jia, C Duan, F Huang, HL Yip… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Benefiting from low cost and simple synthesis, polythiophene (PT) derivatives are one of the
most popular donor materials for organic solar cells (OSCs). However, polythiophene‐based …

Molecular Engineering and Morphology Control of Polythiophene: Nonfullerene Acceptor Blends for High‐Performance Solar Cells

Q Wang, Y Qin, M Li, L Ye… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advances in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), the development of low‐cost and easily
accessible polymer donors is of vital importance for OPV commercialization. Polythiophene …

A Twisted Thieno[3,4‐b]thiophene‐Based Electron Acceptor Featuring a 14‐π‐Electron Indenoindene Core for High‐Performance Organic Photovoltaics

S Xu, Z Zhou, W Liu, Z Zhang, F Liu, H Yan… - Advanced …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
With an indenoindene core, a new thieno [3, 4‐b] thiophene‐based small‐molecule electron
acceptor, 2, 2′‐((2Z, 2′ Z)‐((6, 6′‐(5, 5, 10, 10‐tetrakis (2‐ethylhexyl)‐5, 10 …

Design of a new fused‐ring electron acceptor with excellent compatibility to wide‐bandgap polymer donors for high‐performance organic photovoltaics

W Liu, J Zhang, Z Zhou, D Zhang, Y Zhang… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fused‐ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have recently received intensive attention. Besides
the continuing development of new FREAs, the demand for FREAs featuring good …

Low‐cost and efficient organic solar cells based on polythiophene‐and poly (thiophene vinylene)‐related donors: Photovoltaics: Special Issue Dedicated to Professor …

C Yang, S Zhang, J Hou - Aggregate, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
At present, most of state‐of‐the‐art power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar
cells (OSCs) are achieved from the photoactive materials involving donor–acceptor (D–A) …

Polythiophene and its derivatives for all-polymer solar cells

Q Bai, Y Cheng, W Wang, J Chen, H Sun - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), employing conjugated polymers for both polymer donors
and acceptors within the active layer, offer numerous benefits, such as outstanding …