Novel low-carbon energy solutions for powering emerging wearables, smart textiles, and medical devices

B Ramasubramanian, S Sundarrajan… - Energy & …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
One of the most major agendas to mitigate climate change is the transition to low-carbon
energy extraction. Furthermore, develo** cutting-edge prototypes for wearable …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

Selenium heterocyclic electron acceptor with small urbach energy for as-cast high-performance organic solar cells

Z Zhang, Y Li, G Cai, Y Zhang, X Lu… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Typical organic photovoltaic materials show high Urbach energies (ca. 25–50 meV), which
is considerably higher than those of their inorganic counterparts and limits further …

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 …

n-Type molecular photovoltaic materials: design strategies and device applications

Q Yue, W Liu, X Zhu - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
The use of photovoltaic technologies has been regarded as a promising approach for
converting solar energy to electricity and mitigating the energy crisis, and among these …

Highly efficient fullerene-free organic solar cells operate at near zero highest occupied molecular orbital offsets

S Li, L Zhan, C Sun, H Zhu, G Zhou… - Journal of the …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Herein, we investigated a series of fullerene-free organic solar cells (OSCs) based on six
different donor: acceptor (D: A) blends with varied highest occupied molecular orbital …

A high‐efficiency organic solar cell enabled by the strong intramolecular electron push–pull effect of the nonfullerene acceptor

W Li, L Ye, S Li, H Yao, H Ade, J Hou - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Besides broadening of the absorption spectrum, modulating molecular energy levels, and
other well‐studied properties, a stronger intramolecular electron push–pull effect also …

Multi‐selenophene‐containing narrow bandgap polymer acceptors for all‐polymer solar cells with over 15% efficiency and high reproducibility

Q Fan, H Fu, Q Wu, Z Wu, F Lin, Z Zhu… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
All‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs) progressed tremendously due to recent advances in
polymerized small molecule acceptors (PSMAs), and their power conversion efficiencies …

Selenium-containing organic photovoltaic materials

B Fan, F Lin, X Wu, Z Zhu, AKY Jen - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) with a photoactive layer containing a blend of
organic donor and acceptor species are considered to be a promising technology for clean …

Recent progress in non-fullerene small molecule acceptors in organic solar cells (OSCs)

W Chen, Q Zhang - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Power conversion efficiency (PCE) has surpassed 10% for single junction organic solar cells
(OSCs) mainly through the design and synthesis of novel donor materials, the optimization …