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 in π-conjugated polymers for organic photovoltaics: solar cells and photodetectors

C Liu, L Shao, S Chen, Z Hu, H Cai, F Huang - Progress in Polymer …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract π-Conjugated polymers show promising potential in the application of organic
photovoltaics, including organic solar cells (OSCs) and organic photodetectors (OPDs) …

The first demonstration of entirely roll-to-roll fabricated perovskite solar cell modules under ambient room conditions

HC Weerasinghe, N Macadam, JE Kim… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The rapid development of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells has resulted in
laboratory-scale devices having power conversion efficiencies that are competitive with …

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 …

Multifunctional enhancement for highly stable and efficient perovskite solar cells

Y Cai, J Cui, M Chen, M Zhang, Y Han… - Advanced functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With a certified efficiency as high as 25.2%, perovskite has taken the crown as the highest
efficiency thin film solar cell material. Unfortunately, serious instability issues must be …

Recent advances, design guidelines, and prospects of all-polymer solar cells

C Lee, S Lee, GU Kim, W Lee, BJ Kim - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) consisting of polymer donors (P Ds) and polymer
acceptors (P As) have drawn tremendous research interest in recent years. It is due to not …

Over 14% efficiency in polymer solar cells enabled by a chlorinated polymer donor

S Zhang, Y Qin, J Zhu, J Hou - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Fluorine‐contained polymers, which have been widely used in highly efficient polymer solar
cells (PSCs), are rather costly due to their complicated synthesis and low yields in the …

Solution-processed two-dimensional materials for next-generation photovoltaics

S Bellani, A Bartolotta, A Agresti, G Calogero… - Chemical Society …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
In the ever-increasing energy demand scenario, the development of novel photovoltaic (PV)
technologies is considered to be one of the key solutions to fulfil the energy request. In this …

Simple non-fused electron acceptors for efficient and stable organic solar cells

ZP Yu, ZX Liu, FX Chen, R Qin, TK Lau, JL Yin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The flexibility in structural design of organic semiconductors endows organic solar cells
(OSCs) not only great function-tunabilities, but also high potential toward practical …

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 …