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 …

Recent progress of Y6‐derived asymmetric fused ring electron acceptors

Y Zhang, Y Ji, Y Zhang, W Zhang, H Bai… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Symmetric conjugated molecules can be broken through suitable synthetic strategies to
construct novel asymmetric molecules, which can largely broaden the material library. In the …

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 …

Donor–acceptor mutually diluted heterojunctions for layer-by-layer fabrication of high-performance organic solar cells

L Wang, C Chen, Y Fu, C Guo, D Li, J Cheng, W Sun… - Nature Energy, 2024 - nature.com
The photoactive layer of organic solar cells consists of p-type electron donors and n-type
electron acceptors, which phase separate to form fine and continuous networks for charge …

16% efficiency all-polymer organic solar cells enabled by a finely tuned morphology via the design of ternary blend

T Liu, T Yang, R Ma, L Zhan, Z Luo, G Zhang, Y Li… - Joule, 2021 - cell.com
There is an urgent demand for all-polymer organic solar cells (AP-OSCs) to gain higher
efficiency. Here, we successfully improve the performance to 16.09% by introducing a small …

Regioisomer‐free difluoro‐monochloro terminal‐based hexa‐halogenated acceptor with optimized crystal packing for efficient binary organic solar cells

L Yan, H Zhang, Q An, M Jiang… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, we synthesized new hetero‐halogenated end groups with well‐determined
fluorinated and chlorinated substitutions (o‐FCl‐IC and FClF‐IC), and synthesized …

Selective halogenation of central and end-units of nonfullerene acceptors enables enhanced molecular packing and photovoltaic performance

M **e, Y Shi, L Zhu, J Zhang, Q Cheng… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Halogenation of nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) is a general and effective strategy to
improve the power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs). Although …

Lowing the energy loss of organic solar cells by molecular packing engineering via multiple molecular conjugation extension

H Chen, Y Zou, H Liang, T He, X Xu, Y Zhang… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
The central unit (benzo [c][1, 2, 5] thiadiazole) in Y6 series of molecules plays a determining
role in their unique intermolecular packing for a three-dimensionally (3D) network, largely …

Fine-tuning of side-chain orientations on nonfullerene acceptors enables organic solar cells with 17.7% efficiency

G Chai, Y Chang, J Zhang, X Xu, L Yu, X Zou… - Energy & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Side-chain engineering has been shown to be an important strategy to optimize Y-series
nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs). Most previous reports were focusing on changing the …

Non-fullerene acceptors with hetero-dihalogenated terminals induce significant difference in single crystallography and enable binary organic solar cells with 17.5 …

L Wang, Q An, L Yan, HR Bai, M Jiang… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Despite the dihalogenation of terminals being an effective strategy to produce efficient
nonfullerene acceptor (NFA)-based organic solar cells (OSCs), hetero-dihalogenated …