Molecular Engineering and Morphology Control of Polythiophene: Nonfullerene Acceptor Blends for High‐Performance Solar Cells

Q Wang, Y Qin, M Li, L Ye… - Advanced Energy Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With the advances in organic photovoltaics (OPVs), the development of low‐cost and easily
accessible polymer donors is of vital importance for OPV commercialization. Polythiophene …

The renaissance of polythiophene organic solar cells

L Ye, H Ke, Y Liu - Trends in Chemistry, 2021 - cell.com
The past decade has witnessed tremendous advances in the power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of organic photovoltaic cells. Concomitantly, the chemical structures of present high …

The rise of polythiophene photovoltaics

K Xian, Y Geng, L Ye - Joule, 2022 - cell.com
Compared with prevailing photovoltaic polymers with complex structures and tedious
synthesis, polythiophenes possess a greater commercial promise. However, their …

Simple polythiophene solar cells approaching 10% efficiency via carbon chain length modulation of poly (3-alkylthiophene)

Y Liu, K Xian, R Gui, K Zhou, J Liu, M Gao… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Poly (3-alkylthiophene) s are the most extensively studied polymeric materials in organic
and hybrid solar cells due to the unique advantages of extremely low cost in material …

Optimization requirements of efficient polythiophene: nonfullerene organic solar cells

Z Liang, M Li, Q Wang, Y Qin, SJ Stuard, Z Peng… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Polythiophene (PT) and its derivatives have attracted long-standing attention in the organic
photovoltaic community for their low cost and high scalability of synthesis. However, due to …

Morphology control by tuning electrostatic interactions for efficient polythiophene-based all-polymer solar cells

L Ma, H Yao, J Zhang, Z Chen, J Wang, J Qiao, S Wang… - Chem, 2023 - cell.com
Polythiophenes are one of the most classical donors for organic solar cells, which have
simple chemical structures and thus low production costs. However, their photovoltaic …

Polythiophenes comprising conjugated pendants for polymer solar cells: a review

HJ Wang, CP Chen, RJ Jeng - Materials, 2014 - mdpi.com
Polythiophene (PT) is one of the widely used donor materials for solution-processable
polymer solar cells (PSCs). Much progress in PT-based PSCs can be attributed to the …

Backbone fluorination of polythiophenes improves device performance of non-fullerene polymer solar cells

X Jia, G Liu, S Chen, Z Li, Z Wang, Q Yin… - ACS Applied Energy …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Polythiophenes (PTs) are promising donor materials for the industrialization of polymer solar
cells (PSCs) due to the merits of easy synthesis, low cost, and large-scale producibility. The …

Polythiophene derivatives compatible with both fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors for polymer solar cells

Z Chen, C Duan, Z Wang, Q Yin, F Huang… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work we report three novel polythiophene derivatives (P4T2F-HD, P4T2F-HD/BO, and
P4T2F-BO) which are synthesized via a three-step reaction in each case. The polymers …

Progress in Poly (3‐Hexylthiophene) Organic Solar Cells and the Influence of Its Molecular Weight on Device Performance

A Wadsworth, Z Hamid, M Bidwell… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Poly (3‐hexylthiophene)(P3HT) was an early frontrunner in the development of
donor polymers to be used in organic photovoltaics. A relatively straightforward and …