The principles, design and applications of fused-ring electron acceptors

J Wang, P Xue, Y Jiang, Y Huo, X Zhan - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2022 - nature.com
Fused-ring electron acceptors (FREAs) have a donor–acceptor–donor structure comprising
an electron-donating fused-ring core, electron-accepting end groups, π-bridges and side …

Electronic-structure methods for materials design

N Marzari, A Ferretti, C Wolverton - Nature materials, 2021 - nature.com
The accuracy and efficiency of electronic-structure methods to understand, predict and
design the properties of materials has driven a new paradigm in research. Simulations can …

Charge separation from an intra-moiety intermediate state in the high-performance PM6: Y6 organic photovoltaic blend

R Wang, C Zhang, Q Li, Z Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Bulk-heterojunction organic photovoltaic devices with nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) exhibit
efficient hole transfer with small interfacial energy offset, which results in power conversion …

The role of exciton lifetime for charge generation in organic solar cells at negligible energy-level offsets

A Classen, CL Chochos, L Lüer, VG Gregoriou… - Nature energy, 2020 - nature.com
Organic solar cells utilize an energy-level offset to generate free charge carriers. Although a
very small energy-level offset increases the open-circuit voltage, it remains unclear how …

Organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors

J Hou, O Inganäs, RH Friend, F Gao - Nature materials, 2018 - nature.com
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have been dominated by donor: acceptor blends based on
fullerene acceptors for over two decades. This situation has changed recently, with non …

Non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics: Theory and applications for modeling photophysics in extended molecular materials

TR Nelson, AJ White, JA Bjorgaard, AE Sifain… - Chemical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological
systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of …

Charge transfer of carbon nanomaterials for efficient metal‐free electrocatalysis

R Paul, Q Zhai, AK Roy, L Dai - Interdisciplinary Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Recently, carbon‐based metal‐free electrocatalysts (C‐MFECs) have drawn considerable
research attention because of their attractive physicochemical characteristics, cost …

Organic optoelectronic materials: mechanisms and applications

O Ostroverkhova - Chemical reviews, 2016 - ACS Publications
Organic (opto) electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their
applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive …

Understanding energy loss in organic solar cells: toward a new efficiency regime

SM Menke, NA Ran, GC Bazan, RH Friend - Joule, 2018 - cell.com
Reducing energy and voltage loss is an imperative area of improvement for the design of
organic solar cells (OSCs). Both in the context of charge generation and charge …

Optical gaps of organic solar cells as a reference for comparing voltage losses

Y Wang, D Qian, Y Cui, H Zhang, J Hou… - Advanced energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The voltage loss, determined by the difference between the optical gap (Eg) and the open‐
circuit voltage (VOC), is one of the most important parameters determining the performance …