Low band gap polymers for organic photovoltaics

E Bundgaard, FC Krebs - Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 2007 - Elsevier
Low band gap polymer materials and their application in organic photovoltaics (OPV) are
reviewed. We detail the synthetic approaches to low band gap polymer materials starting …

Helical polymers for dissymmetric circularly polarized light imaging

I Song, J Ahn, H Ahn, SH Lee, J Mei, NA Kotov, JH Oh - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Control of the spin angular momentum (SAM) carried in a photon provides a technologically
attractive element for next-generation quantum networks and spintronics,,,–. However, the …

Alternating polyfluorenes collect solar light in polymer photovoltaics

O InganÄs, F Zhang, MR Andersson - Accounts of chemical …, 2009 - ACS Publications
The effort to improve the energy conversion efficiency of polymer solar cells has led to the
design of novel donor polymers. To improve open circuit photovoltages (OCVs) and the …

Inverting the handedness of circularly polarized luminescence from light-emitting polymers using film thickness

L Wan, J Wade, F Salerno, O Arteaga, B Laidlaw… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The emission of circularly polarized light is central to many applications, including data
storage, optical quantum computation, biosensing, environmental monitoring, and display …

Panchromatic ternary polymer dots involving sub-picosecond energy and charge transfer for efficient and stable photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

A Liu, L Gedda, M Axelsson, M Pavliuk… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Panchromatic ternary polymer dots (Pdots) consisting of two conjugated polymers (PFBT
and PFODTBT) based on fluorene and benzothiadiazole groups, and one small molecular …

Aggregation in a high-mobility n-type low-bandgap copolymer with implications on semicrystalline morphology

R Steyrleuthner, M Schubert, I Howard… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
We explore the photophysics of P (NDI2OD-T2), a high-mobility and air-stable n-type
donor/acceptor polymer. Detailed steady-state UV–vis and photoluminescence (PL) …

Examining the effect of the dipole moment on charge separation in donor–acceptor polymers for organic photovoltaic applications

B Carsten, JM Szarko, HJ Son, W Wang… - Journal of the …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A new low band gap copolymer PBB3 containing [6, 6′] bi [thieno [3, 4-b] thiophenyl]-2, 2′-
dicarboxylic acid bis-(2-butyloctyl) ester (BTT) and 4, 8-bis (2-butyloctyl) benzo [1, 2-b: 4, 5 …

Influence of aggregation on the performance of all‐polymer solar cells containing low‐bandgap naphthalenediimide copolymers

M Schubert, D Dolfen, J Frisch, S Roland… - Advanced Energy …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The authors present efficient all‐polymer solar cells comprising two different low‐bandgap
naphthalenediimide (NDI)‐based copolymers as acceptors and regioregular P3HT as the …

Twist and degrade—impact of molecular structure on the photostability of nonfullerene acceptors and their photovoltaic blends

J Luke, EM Speller, A Wadsworth… - Advanced Energy …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Nonfullerene acceptors (NFAs) dominate organic photovoltaic (OPV) research due to their
promising efficiencies and stabilities. However, there is very little investigation into the …

Theoretical Characterization of the PC60BM:PDDTT Model for an Organic Solar Cell

Y Li, T Pullerits, M Zhao, M Sun - The journal of physical chemistry …, 2011 - ACS Publications
We use time-dependent density functional theory together with a set of extensive
multidimensional visualization techniques to characterize band gap, optical absorption …