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 …

Nonfullerene acceptor molecules for bulk heterojunction organic solar cells

G Zhang, J Zhao, PCY Chow, K Jiang, J Zhang… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The bulk-heterojunction blend of an electron donor and an electron acceptor material is the
key component in a solution-processed organic photovoltaic device. In the past decades, a p …

The damaging effects of the acidity in PEDOT: PSS on semiconductor device performance and solutions based on non-acidic alternatives

J Cameron, PJ Skabara - Materials Horizons, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Poly (3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene): poly (styrene sulfonate), PEDOT: PSS, has been widely
used as an effective hole transporting material in many different organic semiconductor …

Approaching 16% efficiency in all-small-molecule organic solar cells based on ternary strategy with a highly crystalline acceptor

L Nian, Y Kan, K Gao, M Zhang, N Li, G Zhou, SB Jo… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
All-small-molecule organic solar cells (SM-OSCs) with a high power conversion efficiency
(PCE) of 15.88%(certified 15.5%) are demonstrated by employing 4TIC as the additional …

Low‐bandgap porphyrins for highly efficient organic solar cells: materials, morphology, and applications

K Gao, Y Kan, X Chen, F Liu, B Kan, L Nian… - Advanced …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
With developments in materials, thin‐film processing, fine‐tuning of morphology, and
optimization of device fabrication, the performance of organic solar cells (OSCs) has …

Oligomeric semiconductors enable high efficiency open air processed organic solar cells by modulating pre-aggregation and crystallization kinetics

H Xia, Y Zhang, K Liu, W Deng, M Zhu, H Tan… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Although massive progress in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) has been made on
organic solar cells (OSCs), the challenge remains to scale up high-performance OSCs that …

Novel oligomer enables green solvent processed 17.5% ternary organic solar cells: synergistic energy loss reduction and morphology fine‐tuning

H Xia, Y Zhang, W Deng, K Liu, X Xia, CJ Su… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The large non‐radiative recombination is the main factor that limits state‐of‐the‐art organic
solar cells (OSCs). In this work, two novel structurally similar oligomers (named 5BDTBDD …

Semitransparent ternary nonfullerene polymer solar cells exhibiting 9.40% efficiency and 24.6% average visible transmittance

Z Hu, J Wang, Z Wang, W Gao, Q An, M Zhang, X Ma… - Nano Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
Efficient semitransparent ternary polymer solar cells (PSCs) are fabricated with narrow band
gap material PTB7-Th as donor, two narrow band gap nonfullerene materials BDTThIT-4F …

Toward predicting efficiency of organic solar cells via machine learning and improved descriptors

H Sahu, W Rao, A Troisi, H Ma - Advanced Energy Materials, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
To design efficient materials for organic photovoltaics (OPVs), it is essential to identify the
largest number of parameters that control their properties and build a model using these …

Supramolecular energy materials

O Dumele, J Chen, JV Passarelli… - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Self‐assembly is a bioinspired strategy to craft materials for renewable and clean energy
technologies. In plants, the alignment and assembly of the light‐harvesting protein …