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 …

Advantages, challenges and molecular design of different material types used in organic solar cells

J Yi, G Zhang, H Yu, H Yan - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
The performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has increased substantially over the past 10
years, owing to the development of various high-performance organic electron–acceptor …

A new polymer donor enables binary all‐polymer organic photovoltaic cells with 18% efficiency and excellent mechanical robustness

J Wang, Y Cui, Y Xu, K **an, P Bi, Z Chen… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of polymerized small‐molecule acceptors has boosted the power
conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of all‐polymer organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells to 17 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells (Part II device engineering)

Y Liu, B Liu, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have gained a rapid development in the past two decades and
the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of single-junction OSC has recently approached …

Suppressing the energetic disorder of all-polymer solar cells enables over 18% efficiency

T Zhang, Y Xu, H Yao, J Zhang, P Bi, Z Chen… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) usually have a complex blend morphology due to their
higher probability of chain entanglement. Under these conditions, the larger energetic …

Unveiling the Morphological and Physical Mechanism of Burn‐in Loss Alleviation by Ternary Matrix Toward Stable and Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells

R Ma, Q Fan, TA Dela Peña, B Wu, H Liu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer solar cells (All‐PSCs) are considered the most promising candidate in
achieving both efficient and stable organic photovoltaic devices, yet the field has rarely …

A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over …

H Yu, Y Wang, HK Kim, X Wu, Y Li, Z Yao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐art Y‐series polymer acceptors are typically based on a mono‐thiophene linker,
which can cause some twisted molecular conformations and thus limit the performance of all …

Two-dimensional polymers and polymerizations

AM Evans, MJ Strauss, AR Corcos, Z Hirani… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Synthetic chemists have developed robust methods to synthesize discrete molecules, linear
and branched polymers, and disordered cross-linked networks. However, two-dimensional …

High‐Performance Organic Solar Cells Containing Pyrido[2,3‐b]quinoxaline‐Core‐Based Small‐Molecule Acceptors with Optimized Orbit Overlap Lengths and …

T Xu, Z Luo, R Ma, Z Chen, TA Dela Peña… - Angewandte …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The central core in A‐DA1D‐A‐type small‐molecule acceptor (SMAs) plays an important
role in determining the efficiency of organic solar cells (OSCs), while the principles …