High-performance polymer solar cells with efficiency over 18% enabled by asymmetric side chain engineering of non-fullerene acceptors

S Chen, L Feng, T Jia, J Jing, Z Hu, K Zhang… - Science China …, 2021 - Springer
Side-chain engineering has been considered as one of the most promising strategies to
optimize non-fullerene small-molecule acceptors (NFSMAs). Previous efforts were focused …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Efficient polymer solar cells based on non-fullerene acceptors with potential device lifetime approaching 10 years

X Du, T Heumueller, W Gruber, A Classen, T Unruh… - Joule, 2019 - cell.com
Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) have developed very
fast in recent years. A proper balance among power conversion efficiency (PCE), stability …

Phthalimide‐based high mobility polymer semiconductors for efficient nonfullerene solar cells with power conversion efficiencies over 13%

J Yu, P Chen, CW Koh, H Wang, K Yang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Highly efficient nonfullerene polymer solar cells (PSCs) are developed based on two new
phthalimide‐based polymers phthalimide‐difluorobenzothiadiazole (PhI‐ffBT) and …

A new wide bandgap donor polymer for efficient nonfullerene organic solar cells with a large open‐circuit voltage

Y Tang, H Sun, Z Wu, Y Zhang, G Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Significant progress has been made in nonfullerene small molecule acceptors (NF‐SMAs)
that leads to a consistent increase of power conversion efficiency (PCE) of nonfullerene …

High-performance all-polymer solar cells based on fluorinated naphthalene diimide acceptor polymers with fine-tuned crystallinity and enhanced dielectric constants

X Xu, Z Li, J Wang, B Lin, W Ma, Y Xia, MR Andersson… - Nano Energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Growing interests have been devoted to the synthesis of polymer acceptors as alternatives
to fullerene derivatives to realize high-performance and stable all-polymer solar cells (all …

A2–A1–D–A1–A2 Type Non-Fullerene Acceptors with 2-(1,1-Dicyanomethylene)rhodanine as the Terminal Groups for Poly(3-hexylthiophene)-Based Organic …

B Xiao, A Tang, Q Zhang, G Li, X Wang… - ACS Applied Materials …, 2018 - ACS Publications
2-(1, 1-Dicyanomethylene) rhodanine (RCN) is an important electron-deficient terminal unit
to build non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) having been realized high power conversion …

All-polymer solar cells with 9.4% efficiency from naphthalene diimide-biselenophene copolymer acceptor

NB Kolhe, H Lee, D Kuzuhara, N Yoshimoto… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We report herein the development of high performance all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs)
based on a naphthalene diimide-biselenophene copolymer acceptor bearing 2-octyldodecyl …

The renaissance of oligothiophene‐based donor–acceptor polymers in organic solar cells

B Yin, Z Chen, S Pang, X Yuan, Z Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of organic solar cells (OSCs) have increased
rapidly owing to the development of non‐fullerene acceptors (NFAs). However, the …

Effects of fullerene bisadduct regioisomers on photovoltaic performance

X Meng, G Zhao, Q Xu, Z Tan, Z Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Fullerene bisadducts have emerged as promising electron‐accepting materials because of
their ability to increase the open‐circuit voltage (VOC) of polymer solar cells (PSCs) due to …