Recent advances in bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells

L Lu, T Zheng, Q Wu, AM Schneider, D Zhao… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
It is clear that the current energy regimen, which relies on nonrenewable and polluting
energy sources, has unsustainable consequences for societal, economical, geopolitical, and …

Synthesis of conjugated polymers for organic solar cell applications

YJ Cheng, SH Yang, CS Hsu - Chemical reviews, 2009 - ACS Publications
Harvesting energy directly from sunlight using photovoltaic technology is considered as
being one of the most important ways to address growing global energy needs using a …

Rational design of high performance conjugated polymers for organic solar cells

H Zhou, L Yang, W You - Macromolecules, 2012 - ACS Publications
The research on the polymer-based solar cells (PSCs) has attracted an increasing amount
of attention in recent years because PSCs pose potential advantages over mainstream …

Stille polycondensation for synthesis of functional materials

B Carsten, F He, HJ Son, T Xu, L Yu - Chemical reviews, 2011 - ACS Publications
The Stille coupling reaction between stannanes and aryl halides to form new carbonrcarbon
bonds has become a versatile synthetic methodology and has been widely applied to the …

A new class of semiconducting polymers for bulk heterojunction solar cells with exceptionally high performance

Y Liang, L Yu - Accounts of chemical research, 2010 - ACS Publications
Solar cells based on the polymer− fullerene bulk heterojunction (BHJ) concept are an
attractive class of low-cost solar energy harvesting devices. Because the power conversion …

Examining the effect of the dipole moment on charge separation in donor–acceptor polymers for organic photovoltaic applications

B Carsten, JM Szarko, HJ Son, W Wang… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A new low band gap copolymer PBB3 containing [6, 6′] bi [thieno [3, 4-b] thiophenyl]-2, 2′-
dicarboxylic acid bis-(2-butyloctyl) ester (BTT) and 4, 8-bis (2-butyloctyl) benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5 …

Development of new semiconducting polymers for high performance solar cells

Y Liang, Y Wu, D Feng, ST Tsai, HJ Son… - Journal of the …, 2009 - ACS Publications
A new low band gap semiconducting polymer, PTB1, was synthesized and found promising
for solar energy harvesting. Simple polymer solar cells based on PTB1 and …

Benzodithiophenedione-based polymers: recent advances in organic photovoltaics

B Zheng, L Huo, Y Li - NPG Asia Materials, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past 20 years, significant progress has been made in organic photovoltaics (OPVs)
due to its advantages of being cost-effective, being lightweight, and having flexible …

How the structural deviations on the backbone of conjugated polymers influence their optoelectronic properties and photovoltaic performance

CL Chochos, SA Choulis - Progress in polymer science, 2011 - Elsevier
The design of novel conjugated polymers with appropriate frontier orbital energy levels, low
band gap (LBG) and suitable carrier transport properties are needed to improve the power …

A quantum-chemical perspective into low optical-gap polymers for highly-efficient organic solar cells

C Risko, MD McGehee, JL Brédas - Chemical Science, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
The recent and rapid enhancement in power conversion efficiencies of organic-based, bulk-
heterojunction solar cells has been a consequence of both improved materials design and …