Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

P Cheng, G Li, X Zhan, Y Yang - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past three years, a particularly exciting and active area of research within the field
of organic photovoltaics has been the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Compared …

Comprehensive understanding of the thriving ambient electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction

X Zhao, G Hu, GF Chen, H Zhang, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The electrochemical method of combining N2 and H2O to produce ammonia (ie, the
electrochemical nitrogen reduction reaction [E‐NRR]) continues to draw attention as it is …

Organic solar cells with 18% efficiency enabled by an alloy acceptor: a two‐in‐one strategy

F Liu, L Zhou, W Liu, Z Zhou, Q Yue… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The trade‐off between the open‐circuit voltage (Voc) and short‐circuit current density (Jsc)
has become the core of current organic photovoltaic research, and realizing the minimum …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z **ao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

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 …

Electron-hole diffusion lengths exceeding 1 micrometer in an organometal trihalide perovskite absorber

SD Stranks, GE Eperon, G Grancini, C Menelaou… - Science, 2013 - science.org
Organic-inorganic perovskites have shown promise as high-performance absorbers in solar
cells, first as a coating on a mesoporous metal oxide scaffold and more recently as a solid …

Semitransparent organic photovoltaics for building-integrated photovoltaic applications

Y Li, X Huang, HKM Sheriff Jr, SR Forrest - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
The narrow and intense absorption spectra of organic materials open up the opportunity to
develop efficient organic photovoltaic devices that are qualitatively different from other …

Intrinsic efficiency limits in low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptor organic solar cells

S Karuthedath, J Gorenflot, Y Firdaus, N Chaturvedi… - Nature Materials, 2021 - nature.com
In bulk heterojunction (BHJ) organic solar cells (OSCs) both the electron affinity (EA) and
ionization energy (IE) offsets at the donor–acceptor interface should equally control exciton …

11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substituted 2D-conjugated polymer as donor

H Bin, L Gao, ZG Zhang, Y Yang, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Simutaneously high open circuit voltage and high short circuit current density is a big
challenge for achieving high efficiency polymer solar cells due to the excitonic nature of …