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 …

Recent advances in single‐junction organic solar cells

H Yao, J Hou - Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Single‐junction organic solar cells (OSCs) have made significant progress in recent years.
Innovations in material design and device optimization have improved the power conversion …

Non-fullerene acceptors with branched side chains and improved molecular packing to exceed 18% efficiency in organic solar cells

C Li, J Zhou, J Song, J Xu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Guo… - Nature Energy, 2021 - nature.com
Molecular design of non-fullerene acceptors is of vital importance for high-efficiency organic
solar cells. The branched alkyl chain modification is often regarded as a counter-intuitive …

Completely non-fused electron acceptor with 3D-interpenetrated crystalline structure enables efficient and stable organic solar cell

L Ma, S Zhang, J Zhu, J Wang, J Ren, J Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) based on non-fused conjugated structures have more
potential to realize low-cost organic photovoltaic (OPV) cells. However, their power …

Achieving record-efficiency organic solar cells upon tuning the conformation of solid additives

C Li, X Gu, Z Chen, X Han, N Yu, Y Wei… - Journal of the …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Volatile solid additives (SADs) are considered as a simple yet effective approach to tune the
film morphology for high-performance organic solar cells (OSCs). However, the structural …

Polymerized small molecular acceptor based all-polymer solar cells with an efficiency of 16.16% via tuning polymer blend morphology by molecular design

J Du, K Hu, J Zhang, L Meng, J Yue… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) based on polymerized small molecular acceptors (PSMAs)
have made significant progress recently. Here, we synthesize two A-DA'DA small molecule …

A history and perspective of non‐fullerene electron acceptors for organic solar cells

A Armin, W Li, OJ Sandberg, Z Xiao… - Advanced Energy …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Organic solar cells are composed of electron donating and accepting organic
semiconductors. Whilst a significant palette of donors has been developed over three …

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 …

Cathode engineering with perylene-diimide interlayer enabling over 17% efficiency single-junction organic solar cells

J Yao, B Qiu, ZG Zhang, L Xue, R Wang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
In organic solar cells (OSCs), cathode interfacial materials are generally designed with
highly polar groups to increase the capability of lowering the work function of cathode …

New phase for organic solar cell research: emergence of Y-series electron acceptors and their perspectives

S Li, CZ Li, M Shi, H Chen - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
With the recent emergence of a new class of high-performance nonfullerene acceptors
(NFAs), organic solar cells (OSCs) have entered a new phase of research featuring high …