Non-fullerene acceptors for organic solar cells

C Yan, S Barlow, Z Wang, H Yan, AKY Jen… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are currently a major focus of research in the development
of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells (OSCs). In contrast to the widely used fullerene …

Next-generation organic photovoltaics based on non-fullerene acceptors

P Cheng, G Li, X Zhan, Y Yang - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
Over the past three years, a particularly exciting and active area of research within the field
of organic photovoltaics has been the use of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Compared …

Record‐efficiency flexible perovskite solar cells enabled by multifunctional organic ions interface passivation

L Yang, J Feng, Z Liu, Y Duan, S Zhan… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible perovskite solar cells (f‐PSCs) have attracted great attention because of their
unique advantages in lightweight and portable electronics applications. However, their …

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 …

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 …

Recent progress in organic solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors: materials to devices

D Luo, W Jang, DD Babu, MS Kim, DH Wang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic solar cells (OSCs) were dominated by donor–acceptor blends based on polymer
donors and fullerene acceptors for nearly two decades. In the past, apprehensions about the …

The bulk heterojunction in organic photovoltaic, photodetector, and photocatalytic applications

A Wadsworth, Z Hamid, J Kosco, N Gasparini… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Organic semiconductors require an energetic offset in order to photogenerate free charge
carriers efficiently, owing to their inability to effectively screen charges. This is vitally …

Trimerized small-molecule acceptors enable high-performance organic solar cells with high open-circuit voltage and prolonged life-time

JW Lee, C Sun, TNL Phan, DC Lee, Z Tan… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Although the recent development of Y-series small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) has led to a
dramatic increase in the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells (OSCs) …

Non-fused ring electron acceptors for high-performance and low-cost organic solar cells: Structure-function, stability and synthesis complexity analysis

D Luo, CJ Brabec, AKK Kyaw - Nano Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, the development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) has led to rapid
advances in organic solar cells (OSCs), resulting in power conversion efficiency (PCE) …

Realizing over 13% efficiency in green‐solvent‐processed nonfullerene organic solar cells enabled by 1, 3, 4‐thiadiazole‐based wide‐bandgap copolymers

X Xu, T Yu, Z Bi, W Ma, Y Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Two novel wide‐bandgap copolymers, PBDT‐TDZ and PBDTS‐TDZ, are developed based
on 1, 3, 4‐thiadiazole (TDZ) and benzo [1, 2‐b: 4, 5‐b′] dithiophene (BDT) building blocks …