The evolution of small molecular acceptors for organic solar cells: Advances, challenges and prospects

X Liang, J Wang, R Miao, Q Zhao, L Huang, S Wen… - Dyes and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Organic solar cells (OSCs) have attracted lots of research attention and significant
developments have been achieved in the last decade. Small molecular acceptors (SMAs) …

Route to Carbon-sp3 Bridging Spiro-Molecules: Synthetic Methods and Optoelectronic Applications

J Xu, P Gao - Organic Chemistry Frontiers, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Molecules with spiro-linked π-conjugated structures have attracted considerable attention in
the realm of organic functional materials due to their advantageous structural features. In this …

A small-molecule/fullerene acceptor alloy: a powerful tool to enhance the device efficiency and thermal stability of ternary polymer solar cells

P Yin, L Wang, J Liang, Y Yu, L Chen… - Journal of Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Along with the rapidly increasing power conversion efficiency (PCE) of polymer solar cells
(PSCs), the stability of PSCs has become one of the crucial issues for the commercial …

Impact of the Bonding Sites at the Inner or Outer π-Bridged Positions for Non-Fullerene Acceptors

S Ming, C Zhang, P Jiang, Q Jiang, Z Ma… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Two A− π–D− π–A-type non-fullerene acceptors (IDT-T o FIC and IDT-T i FIC) with 5-
hexylthienyl chains substituted at the inner and outer β-positions of the thiophene π-bridge …

Conjugated side-chain optimization of indacenodithiophene-based nonfullerene acceptors for efficient polymer solar cells

J Liang, P Yin, T Zheng, G Wang, X Zeng… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Taking account of the fascinating properties of photovoltaic materials with conjugated side
chains and the great influence of side-chain engineering on molecular structures and …

Insight into the effects of alkoxy side chain position in nonfullerene electron acceptors on the morphological stability of organic solar cells

Z Pang, W Zhang, J Wu, Y Luo, J Liu, S Zhao, Z Xu… - Dyes and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The stable morphology of active layers plays important roles in the applications of organic
solar cells. Four fused-ring electron acceptors were synthesized by introduction alkoxy side …

Effect of the Terminal Acceptor Unit on the Performance of Non-Fullerene Indacenodithiophene Acceptors in Organic Solar Cells

N Terenti, GI Giurgi, L Szolga, I Stroia, A Terec, I Grosu… - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Four acceptor–donor–acceptor (A–D–A)-type molecules bearing indacenodithiophene as
donating central core and various end-capping acceptor units have been designed and …

A Sustainable Synthetic Approach to the Indaceno [1, 2-b: 5, 6-b′] dithiophene (IDT) Core through Cascade Cyclization–Deprotection Reactions

G Forti, A Nitti, G Bianchi, R Po, D Pasini - Chemistry, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bulk heterojunction organic solar cells (BHJs) are competitive within the emerging
photovoltaic technologies for solar energy conversion because of their unique advantages …

Synthesis and characterization of new nonfullerene electron acceptors with a chrysene core

J Zhao, C Yao, Y Zhu, J Cai, MU Ali, J Miao, H Meng - Dyes and Pigments, 2020 - Elsevier
The utilization of non-fullerene acceptors has greatly promoted the development of organic
photovoltaics in past few years. Herein, two new non-fullerene small-molecule electron …