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 organic solar cells (Part I material science)

Y Liu, B Li, CQ Ma, F Huang, G Feng, H Chen… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
During past several years, the photovoltaic performances of organic solar cells (OSCs) have
achieved rapid progress with power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) over 18 …

Organic solar cells with over 19% efficiency enabled by a 2D‐conjugated non‐fullerene acceptor featuring favorable electronic and aggregation structures

K Liu, Y Jiang, F Liu, G Ran, F Huang… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The π‐expansion of non‐fullerene acceptors is a promising method for boosting the organic
photovoltaic performance by allowing the fine‐tuning of electronic structures and molecular …

Improved photovoltaic performance and robustness of all-polymer solar cells enabled by a polyfullerene guest acceptor

H Yu, Y Wang, X Zou, J Yin, X Shi, Y Li, H Zhao… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Fullerene acceptors typically possess excellent electron-transporting properties and can
work as guest components in ternary organic solar cells to enhance the charge extraction …

A Vinylene‐Linker‐Based Polymer Acceptor Featuring a Coplanar and Rigid Molecular Conformation Enables High‐Performance All‐Polymer Solar Cells with Over …

H Yu, Y Wang, HK Kim, X Wu, Y Li, Z Yao… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
State‐of‐art Y‐series polymer acceptors are typically based on a mono‐thiophene linker,
which can cause some twisted molecular conformations and thus limit the performance of all …

19.7% efficiency binary organic solar cells achieved by selective core fluorination of nonfullerene electron acceptors

K Liu, Y Jiang, G Ran, F Liu, W Zhang, X Zhu - Joule, 2024 - cell.com
The development of high-performance binary organic solar cells (OSCs) with a simplified
working mechanism and fabrication process is highly desirable to promote the commercial …

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 …

Side-chain engineering of nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors for organic solar cells

Z Luo, T Xu, C Yang - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Thanks to their broad absorption spectra, easily modifiable molecular energy levels and
chemical structures, nonfullerene small-molecule acceptors (SMAs) have attracted …

Alkyl‐chain branching of non‐fullerene acceptors flanking conjugated side groups toward highly efficient organic solar cells

J Zhang, F Bai, I Angunawela, X Xu… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Side‐chain modifications of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs) are essential for harvesting
their full potential in organic solar cells (OSC). Here, an effective alkyl‐chain‐branching …

Low-bandgap non-fullerene acceptors enabling high-performance organic solar cells

W Liu, X Xu, J Yuan, M Leclerc, Y Zou, Y Li - ACS Energy Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
Great progress in organic solar cells (OSCs) has been recently achieved owing to the
advent of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). Indeed, low-bandgap NFAs ranging from 1.3 to …