Recent progress in organic solar cells: a review on materials from acceptor to donor

Y Li, W Huang, D Zhao, L Wang, Z Jiao, Q Huang… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
In the last few decades, organic solar cells (OSCs) have drawn broad interest owing to their
advantages such as being low cost, flexible, semitransparent, non-toxic, and ideal for roll-to …

High-performance conjugated polymer donor materials for polymer solar cells with narrow-bandgap nonfullerene acceptors

C Cui, Y Li - Energy & Environmental Science, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In the past few years, the emergence of nonfullerene (n-type organic semiconductor (n-OS))
acceptors combining with the rational design of conjugated polymer donor materials has …

Benzo [d] thiazole based wide bandgap donor polymers enable 19.54% efficiency organic solar cells along with desirable batch‐to‐batch reproducibility and general …

B Pang, C Liao, X Xu, L Yu, R Li, Q Peng - Advanced Materials, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The limited selection pool of high‐performance wide bandgap (WBG) polymer donors is a
bottleneck problem of the nonfullerene acceptor (NFA) based organic solar cells (OSCs) that …

Asymmetric Π‐bridge engineering enables high‐permittivity benzo [1, 2‐B: 4, 5‐B′] difuran‐conjugated polymer for efficient organic solar cells

Y Gao, Z **ao, M Cui, MI Saidaminov, F Tan… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells (OSCs) exhibit complex charge dynamics, which are closely correlated
with the dielectric constant (ɛr) of photovoltaic materials. In this work, a series of novel …

Recent advances in molecular design of functional conjugated polymers for high-performance polymer solar cells

CC Chueh, AKY Jen - Progress in Polymer Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Continuous improvements have been made to drive the impressive progress of solution-
processed bulk-heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ PSCs), in which the rationally …

Recent advances of furan and its derivatives based semiconductor materials for organic photovoltaics

B Zheng, L Huo - Small Methods, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The state‐of‐the‐art bulk‐heterojunction (BHJ)‐type organic solar cells (OSCs) have
exhibited power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of exceeding 18%. Thereinto, thiophene and …

A narrow‐bandgap n‐type polymer semiconductor enabling efficient all‐polymer solar cells

S Shi, P Chen, Y Chen, K Feng, B Liu… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, n‐type acceptors in high‐performance all‐polymer solar cells (all‐PSCs) are
dominated by imide‐functionalized polymers, which typically show medium bandgap …

Conjugated Donor–Acceptor Terpolymers Toward High‐Efficiency Polymer Solar Cells

D Dang, D Yu, E Wang - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The development of conjugated alternating donor–acceptor (D–A) copolymers with various
electron‐rich and electron‐deficient units in polymer backbones has boosted the power …

Benzotriazole based 2D-conjugated polymer donors for high performance polymer solar cells

ZG Zhang, Y Bai, Y Li - Chinese Journal of Polymer Science, 2021 - Springer
To design high efficiency polymer solar cells (PSCs), it is of great importance to develop
suitable polymer donors that work well with the low bandgap acceptors, providing …

Thiophene-based organic semiconductors

G Turkoglu, ME Cinar, T Ozturk - Sulfur Chemistry, 2017 - Springer
Thiophene-based p-conjugated organic small molecules and polymers are the research
subject of significant current interest owing to their potential use as organic semiconductors …