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 …

Benzothiadiazole-based non-fullerene acceptors

Q Nie, A Tang, Q Guo, E Zhou - Nano Energy, 2021‏ - Elsevier
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) have been greatly
improved with the rapid development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) in recent five years …

Critical review of the molecular design progress in non-fullerene electron acceptors towards commercially viable organic solar cells

A Wadsworth, M Moser, A Marks, MS Little… - Chemical Society …, 2019‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Fullerenes have formed an integral part of high performance organic solar cells over the last
20 years, however their inherent limitations in terms of synthetic flexibility, cost and stability …

Benzothiadiazole-based polymer donors

P Cong, Z Wang, Y Geng, Y Meng, C Meng, L Chen… - Nano Energy, 2023‏ - Elsevier
As the most classic electron-accepting building block, 2, 1, 3-benzothiadiazole (BT) and the
derived structures have achieved great success to construct photovoltaic materials …

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 …

Fast charge separation in a non-fullerene organic solar cell with a small driving force

J Liu, S Chen, D Qian, B Gautam, G Yang, J Zhao… - Nature Energy, 2016‏ - nature.com
Fast and efficient charge separation is essential to achieve high power conversion efficiency
in organic solar cells (OSCs). In state-of-the-art OSCs, this is usually achieved by a …

Fullerene-free polymer solar cells with over 11% efficiency and excellent thermal stability.

W Zhao, D Qian, S Zhang, S Li, O Inganäs… - … (Deerfield Beach, Fla …, 2016‏ - europepmc.org
A nonfullerene-based polymer solar cell (PSC) that significantly outperforms fullerene-based
PSCs with respect to the power-conversion efficiency is demonstrated for the first time. An …

Polymer donors for high‐performance non‐fullerene organic solar cells

H Fu, Z Wang, Y Sun - Angewandte Chemie International …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few years, non‐fullerene organic solar cells have been a focus of research
and their power conversion efficiencies have been improved dramatically from about 6% to …

High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor

S Holliday, RS Ashraf, A Wadsworth, D Baran… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPV) offer the attractive prospect of low-cost, light-
weight and environmentally benign solar energy production. The highest efficiency OPV at …

Molecular design of benzodithiophene-based organic photovoltaic materials

H Yao, L Ye, H Zhang, S Li, S Zhang, J Hou - Chemical reviews, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small
molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of …